Mike Johnson

Data center architects naturally seek to employ server virtualization to maximize the use of their hardware systems. However, one factor – often overlooked – carries real potential to undermine this goal. That factor is data connectivity. This article examines the importance of data connectivity in a virtualized environment, and the need to take an intelligent approach to data access to truly reap the benefits of your virtualization strategy. As strides have been made over the years in database optimization and the performance of processors and other hardware-based server components, the performance bottleneck has moved to the database middleware – the software drivers that provide connectivity between applications and databases. Between 75% to 95% of the response time n... (more)