All Things Gibbs

Opinion
Feb 6, 20072 mins

* Gearhead: Kicking virtualization up a notch * Backspin: Tagging, no longer fun and easy * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Gearhead: Kicking virtualization up a notch

Of all of the technology trends that have been important in the world of enterprise IT, there’s one that stands out as the 800-pound gorilla – the pink elephant if you will – of the last few years: virtualization.

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Backspin: Tagging, no longer fun and easy

Most people think that tagging on the Web is pretty easy and fun. Give ’em a blog or a Web page and a field named “tags,” and they’ll start stuffing in text with wild abandon in the hopes that their content will be easily found by people who are desperately searching for information and opinion on feline hairball cures or cycling in the Ozarks or whatever their particular hobby is. Alas, all these folks are doing is polluting the Web. /p>

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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Sony Gets Final Slap on Wrist

I know I’ve been a little obsessed with the Sony BMG Digital Rights Management (DRM) rootkit fiasco (in Backspin and Backspin and Backspin and Backspin and Backspin) but, as I have pointed out (repeatedly), it seems weird to me that so few of us have been outraged over the matter.

This Week in Gearhead: Kicking Virtualization up a Notch

This week in Gearhead we discuss what enterprise virtualization should involve and start to look at the first product we’ve seen that that actually does it right