Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?
this Month WE present the second in a series of ACM CTO roundtable forums. Overseen by the ACM Professions Board, the goal of the forums is to provide high-powered expertise to practicing IT managers to help inform their decisions when investing in new architectures and technologies.
The topic of this forum is virtualization. When investing in virtualization technologies, IT managers must know what is considered standard practice and what is considered too leading-edge and risky for near-term deployment. For this forum we’ve assembled five leading experts on virtualization to discuss what those best practices should be. While the participants might not always agree with each other, we hope their insights will help IT managers navigate the virtualization landscape and make informed decisions on how best to use the technology. Next month we will present Part II of this forum, discussing such topics as clouds and virtualization, using virtualization to streamline desktop delivery, and how to choose appropriate virtual machine platforms and management tools.
Mache Creeger (Moderator): Creeger is a longtime technology industry veteran based in Silicon Valley. Along with being an ACM Queue columnist, he is the principal of Emergent Technology Associates, marketing and business development consultants to technology companies worldwide.
Tom Bishop is CTO of BMC Software. Prior to BMC, Bishop worked at Tivoli, both before and after their initial public offering and acquisition by IBM, and also at Tandem Computers. Earlier in his career Bishop spent 12 years at Bell Labs’ Naperville, IL facility and then worked for UNIX International. He graduated from Cornell University with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.
Simon Crosby is the CTO of the Virtualization Management Division
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