When it comes to virtualization platforms,
experts say focus first on the services to be
delivered.
By mache cReeGeR
cto
virtualization
Roundtable,
Part ii
last month we published Part i of a Cto roundtable
forum on virtualization. sponsored by the
aCM Professions board, the roundtable features five
experts on virtualization discussing the current state
of the technology and how companies can use it most
effectively. in this second and final installment,
the participants address key issues
such as choosing the most appropriate
virtual machine platform, using virtualization to streamline desktop delivery,
and using virtualization as an effective
disaster-recovery mechanism.
Participants:
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 its initial
public offering and acquisition by IBM,
and also at Tandem Computers. Ear-
lier 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
at Citrix. He was one of the founders
of XenSource and was on the faculty
of Cambridge University, where he
earned his Ph.D. in computer science.
Crosby grew up in South Africa and has
master degrees in applied probability
and computer science.
Gustav. This is a pseudonym due
to the policies of his employer, a large
financial services company where he
runs distributed systems. Early in his
career, Gustav wrote assembler code
for telephone switches and did CAD/
