Test Center Tracker: From secure VMs to stable desktops

Today’s Test Center Tracker touches on three equally important topics: Securing you virtual machines, giving your business associates tools to better monitor performance and why you should hold on the best fitting, more stable Microsoft desktop OS. Please read on.

Virtualizing security? – Or should we say securing virtualization? Regardless of which expression feels more proper, bringing more security to guest VMs could become a tad closer now that VMware has made public VMsafe, a vision and an API to reach that goal. Providers of security products are jumping at the opportunity but there are good reasons why these new security tools in the make should have the blessing of standards bodies, David Marshall explains. An obstructed Vista – I would be really surprised if you haven’t noticed the “Save XP” campaign on our pages. What are our motivations for keeping XP going? Glad you asked because Galen Gruman has put together a comprehensive laundry list of why we are doing it. Even more important Galen explains what the campaign is not about. Not Microsoft bashing, not an endorsement for Linux or Mac… Please click here for more. To BI or not to BI? – The name, PerformancePoint Server 2007, can be deceiving but this latest application from Microsoft actually targets the business intelligence space, J. Peter Bruzzese reports. How does PerformancePoint compare with other applications in the same space? Initial feedbacks from one early user seem to be positive, but read all the details in Enterprise Windows. Technorati Tags: Business Intelligence, VMware, virtualization, VMsafe, BI, Windows XP, Vista, Linux, Apple, Microsoft