This month we present the second in a series of ACM CTO Roundtable forums. The goal of the forums, which are overseen by the ACM Professions Board, is to provide high-powered expertise to practicing IT managers, helping inform their decisions when investing in new architectures and technologies.

The topic of this forum is virtualization. When investing in virtualization technologies, IT managers need to 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 several leading experts on virtualization to discuss what those best