From the feature well: Virtualization is working its way into myriad network parts, among those: servers, storage, applications, and desktops. With that in mind, Virtualization: Under the hood serves as an owner’s manual of sorts about how to get more compute power, keep pace with increasing requirements, reduce desktop management costs, as well as what roadblocks to expect along the way. Podcasts: Keeping the theme alive, IBM and HP step into the virtualization realm again, with Big Blue announcing z/VM and HP touting several new hardware and software products. IBM’s “new release can host more than 1,000 virtual images on a single copy,” Marshall explains. Tune into Virtualization Report. Best of the blogs: While vendors tend to disclaim warranties and exclude damages in their EULA’s, one reader of Ed Foster’s Gripe Line got to wondering about backup vendors in the reliability business, and whether the good ones might be less likely to slink their way out of such responsibility. After evaluating five such EULA’s, in fact, our reader found that there weren’t as many differentiators between the EULA’s as he might have hoped. “If more people pay attention to what their EULAs say, perhaps the online backup services will differentiate their terms more,” Foster suggests. “It would certainly be interesting to see how the EULAs in a product category might change if they were subjected to public scrutiny.” Columnist’s corner: As third-party application providers struggle to put out drivers compatible with Windows Vista, Neil McAllister commiserates. “The Linux community feels your pain,” he writes in this week’s installment of Open Enterprise. “If writing drivers for Vista is really this much of a chore, getting open source drivers for Linux will seem trivial by comparison.” Technology Industry