Every serious consultant and technichian walks through this phase of having his private test environment and wants to bring whatever environment to live. In the former days this was occasionally heavy iron, piling up to some extend and everybody had somehow to handle the hardware.
Today virtualisation and the meltdown in memory pricing helps. Entire companies may be simulated virtually in little more than an PC. What doesn’t change is communications and given the fact that nice replication or virtulisation technologies sometimes shall work over a far stretched wide area connection. So the today home lab looks first compressed in a Continue reading