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Here's an excerpt of my interview from StackSafe : We were able to catch up with Tarry Singh of Virtualization for Everyone and get his thoughts on enterprise IT today and where virtualization fits in. Tarry is a Dutch citizen and virtualization enthusiast who frequently shares his insights on the emerging trends that will affect the business community and global economy as a whole. At VMWorld 2008, he spoke with executives from Citrix and Microsoft on XenServer, XenDesktop (soon to be GA), XenApp and Hyper-V. Tarry’s expertise and passion for virtualization is exciting and we are happy to provide his views on IT’s About Uptime. SS: What do you see as the biggest trend for enterprise IT today? TS: Trends in data centers and virtualization cloud computing will be big by 2011. With cloud computing we will see data centers that will run like big yet efficient power plants. There will be several technologies, including virtualization, that may be deployed in those data centers. Wi...

Just heard from DABCC CTO, Doug Brown... Welcome to the DABCC Radio Microsoft-sponsored Virtualization Experts Podcast Series (volume 1). In this DABCC Radio series Microsoft MVP Douglas Brown has the great pleasure of interviewing some of the key decision and strategy makers responsible for shaping the future of Microsoft's virtualization offerings! This includes such brilliant minds as: * Dr. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Technical Fellow * Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer * Mike Neil, General Manager of Virtualization Strategy, Windows Server Division * Stuart Schaefer, Partner Architect * David Greschler, Director, Integrated Virtualization Strategy Check it out.

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I have regular contact with Greg Ness (VP Marketing, BlueLane) and am amazed the amount of work these people put up besides their regular day jobs. I'm sure the Virtualization community has a lot of work to do before they have a fully secure Virtual Infrastructure. Good jobs. Check out the latest podcast here . Summary: 1. Introduction 2. Commoditized Virtualization 3. Key elements of virtualization 4. hypervisor gaining more functionality 5. VM Sprawl to laptops 6. VMotion can break firewall rules 7. Virtual Appliances 8. New threats to VMs 9. Patch Challenges 10. VirtualShield 11. Security at the Network level 12. VirtualShield sits between the hypervisor and the Virtual Machine 13. 0-Day protection 14. Fixing the root cause 15. Setting up VirtualShield 16. Integration with VirtualCenter 17. Customer Feedback 18. Hardware level security without the hardware 19. Closing