Where this thread has gone is reminding me how far I have lagged from the leading edge of technology.
Was there once. Not by a long shot anymore.
I thought the same when virtualization was in its infancy. A server, that doesn’t really exist, that can hop around in the hardware it resides on for redundancy and load balancing, transparently to the users. But it’s not a real server that you can touch, or actually see. Except on a screen. Seriously? Do I need a magic wand to make it work?
I thought my head was going to explode trying to make sense of it all. And it’s gotten much, much worse.
Folks would be suprised at the level of ignorance that companies and entities have about their own IT environments.