by Mario Apicella

Test Center Tracker: From VM to the Web, almost

analysis
Dec 12, 20072 mins

New processors performance, Web based applications and virtual OSes are all elements that can affect how you and your users work. Learn what's happening in those three areas in today's Test center Tracker. Now let's virtualize those names Paul Venezia shares today what he learned during his initial weeks of exposure to VMware Infrastructure 3.5 - This new version is still in beta but its reliability defies many

New processors performance, Web based applications and virtual OSes are all elements that can affect how you and your users work. Learn what’s happening in those three areas in today’s Test center Tracker.

Now let’s virtualize those names Paul Venezia shares today what he learned during his initial weeks of exposure to VMware Infrastructure 3.5 – This new version is still in beta but its reliability defies many shipping products, Paul reports. Too bad that the VMware developers seems to be having a mental block finding new names. Can you tell on the spot what’s VI3.5 and what’s V3I? Oh well, if that’s all what’s wrong with VMware Infrastructure 3.5 I am ready to install.

Is AMD fighting misfortune? Can a new chip from rival Intel and some unfavorable comments slow down AMD? Well, bad luck is also part of it, and what’s happening to AMD is nothing new in the chip industry, Tom Yager explains in Ahead of the Curve.

Keeping one foot on the desktop? That may be considered rude behavior but, figuratively speaking, that’s what Microsoft seems to be doing with the release of the beta version of Office Live Workspaces, Sean Gallagher suggests in Enterprise Windows. With the addition of Workspaces, Office Live starts to look a bit more like Google Apps Sean explains. Is Redmond getting ready for a suite of Web based apps completely detached from its established dominion, the desktop? Read what Sean has to say to find out.