Today's Test Center Tracker is all about virtualization and includes news about an upcoming event, new emerging products and an intriguing perspective on what the future of this technology could be. The "V" forum is coming to town If you are involved in deploying virtualization technologies in your company, the upcoming InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum is a precious source of information and offers an op Today’s Test Center Tracker is all about virtualization and includes news about an upcoming event, new emerging products and an intriguing perspective on what the future of this technology could be. The “V” forum is coming to town If you are involved in deploying virtualization technologies in your company, the upcoming InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum is a precious source of information and offers an opportunity to compare your own experience with other point of views. If you are not deploying virtualization, attending the forum will probably make you feel a little guilty. Please find more info on this event here That’s Parallels for you The name Parallels probably won’t ring a bell but that’s the new name adopted by the company that makes Virtuozzo, David Marshall explains. In addition to a new name, the vendor is also announcing a new version of Virtuozzo Containers, an interesting release that you shouldn’t miss. Please read David’s report to find out why. No more IT babysitting? Don’t let outsiders read this, but in private we can probably agree that most of the IT job is like running a sophisticated kindergarten, requiring attentive supervision of both users and business applications. There is probably not much we can do about users, but Tom Yager believes that combining virtualization and smarter software building tools could bring a certain degree of maturity and self-reliance to applications. It’s all in today’s Ahead of the Curve. Technology Industry