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It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This may be a silly question, but what are VMs generally used for in a corporate setting? Is it the same use case as docker?

[–] Anubis@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In large scale computing, a server will have VERY powerful hardware. You can run multiple VMs on that one machine, giving a slice of that power to each VM so that it basically ends up with multiple individual computers running on one very powerful set of hardware instead of building a ton of individual.

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

The other key feature being cost. A VDI terminal is much cheaper than actual PCs for employees. When I was working IT for a large company, we were able to get them in bulk for about $100 each. A PC cost us at least $800.