It is not unusual for them to have some successes mixed with spectacular failures, as is common in most human endeavours. Fundamentally, automation projects tend to assume that someone will be able to decide what a bunch of people are doing and...
Lack of automation for provisioning Automated provisioning solutions are still considered to be vaporware. Contrary to the experiences of some Tech Republic members, Information Life Cycle Management issues and regulatory compliance issues rated...
Financial services companies are also showing interest in technologies such as automated server patch management, server virtualisation, as well as automated server management and provisioning, the report found.
VMware and several business partners have begun an initiative called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to try to replace individual PCs with virtual machines on a much smaller number of servers.
While the term virtualisation has been around since at least the 1960s, recent developments have refocused attention on the concept - thanks in part to husband and wife team Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum who founded the company VMware.
It remains to be seen whether it's a market (in which) VMware will be willing and interested to make the investments to really make this into a rock-solid production product. Replay lets VMware's software log the actions of software running in a...