The wheels on the I.T. model go round and round, and they're turning back around to centrally-managed, fully-hosted environments. Manageability, security, and economics all play into the push for a re-imagined virtual data center. Virtual Desktops: Randall Kennedy has looked at three of the latest desktop as a service offerings and finds that we're farther down the road to a virtual Shangri-la than you might thi The wheels on the I.T. model go round and round, and they’re turning back around to centrally-managed, fully-hosted environments. Manageability, security, and economics all play into the push for a re-imagined virtual data center.Virtual Desktops: Randall Kennedy has looked at three of the latest desktop as a service offerings and finds that we’re farther down the road to a virtual Shangri-la than you might think. The three products he tested, from Microsoft, Symantec, and Thinstall, are aimed at an enterprise rather than a service provider, but each could provide a starting point if you’re ready to begin stepping into a virtual future.VMWare Extended: Speaking of virtualization, David Marshall has posted a new podcast on Veeam and Vizioncore, two products that add to VMWare’s already impressive virtual server capabilities. Demand Meets Capacity: Finally Ted Samson addressed a serious economic question in Sustainable IT: if processors keep adding cores, won’t customers buy fewer processors? The answer is no–customers will find ways to use as much processing power as the chip manufacturers can provide. That simple (and not surprising) fact is a bit reason why providing that processing power in as ecologically-friendly packaging as possible makes sense to everyone’s bottom line. Technology Industry