Latest virtualization news.
What does it take to manage virtual servers?, 11/01/07: Virtualization can help IT managers allocate more resources with less hardware, but not without introducing a slew of management challenges.
Licensing change opens Apple Leopard Server to virtualization, 10/31/07: A change to the licensing agreement for Apple’s OS X Leopard Server will allow users to run virtual machines on Apple hardware for the first time, industry players say.
Data center staffing problems grow, 11/01/07: IT leaders continue to battle to find virtualization experts and other technical specialists to staff data centers, new research shows. A whopping 86% of data center managers say they struggle to find qualified applicants for data center jobs, according to Symantec’s State of the Data Center Research report, released Oct. 31. Furthermore, 52% of respondents call their data center currently understaffed.
IBM launches server consolidation tool, 11/01/07: IBM has just launched an analysis tool that it reckoned would help businesses find under-utilized x86 servers that could profitably be consolidated.
A second life for ‘Second Life’ with open source?, 10/31/07: In the aftermath of the hype over the virtual world, a tiny group of developers presses on with building its Linux presence.
Sun building collaborative, virtual world for teleworkers, 10/31/07: Sun is building a virtual world for its employees that will recreate the real-life interactions of an office, giving workers the ability to move easily from one conversation to another in a collaborative online environment.
Vendor claims about storage virtualization flawed, 10/30/07: IT managers have been advised to be wary of vendor hype surrounding storage virtualization as it is a technology that is poorly defined, misunderstood and not widely used, according to Dr. Kevin McIsaac, an advisor at research firm Intelligent Business Research Services (IBRS).
Building virtual worlds at Boeing, 10/29/07: Want to see how an F-16 will react to the latest antiaircraft weapons? Tip Slater is your man.
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