Virtualisation management in the spotlight

As virtualisation evolves over the next several years, management will play a bigger and bigger role, according to Computerworld.

Management's importance will increase coincident with the growing competitiveness of non-VMware hypervisors, especially Microsoft's Hyper-V, industry watchers agree.

"In coming years, Microsoft will catch up with VMware on the backend and what will separate those two environments are the management tools," says Bob Pate, network operations manager at McGlinchey Stafford, a large New Orleans law firm.

The best way to virtualise your storage is through a storage area network (SAN), according to IDC, reports Tech Central.

In a new report entitled 'Removing storage-related barriers to server and desktop virtualisation', the analyst firm claimed there is no need for high-end expensive systems to reap the benefits of virtualisation - just create a SAN with storage virtualisation software.

Carla Arend, analyst for European storage software and services at IDC, said in the report: "This hardware-independent approach complements server and desktop virtualisation without compromising availability, speed, or project schedules."

Virtualisation firm OK Labs claims it will offer "provably correct code and methodology", for mobile phones, says Electronics Weekly.

"By mathematically proving the correctness of underlying kernel functioning, we have paved the way for validating and deploying mobile virtualisation under certification and security regimes like Common Criteria," the company says.

This project involves National ICT Australia (NICTA) and the University of New South Wales. It was led by NICTA, which is the Australian government lab that incubated OK Labs, and has investments in the firm.