PC Blade Daily Links 2007-03-05

[Daily Post from ClearCube] PC Blade Daily: Monitoring Virtualized Solutions

“Some IT insiders have suggested that virtualization techniques will eliminate traditional monitoring.”

Grid Today: Majitek Brings Services to the Grid

“We’re looking at the concept probably more from an enterprise application perspective, where … the move is to start to expose middle-office and back-office functions out through a Web portal or Web application and suddenly having hundreds of thousands of concurrent users trying to access the same piece of business logic.”

MobileViews Blog: Handwriting Recognition Is Not Ready for Prime Time Either

“The lack of update on the Tablet PC may be another indicator that the good ol’ QWERTY keyboard (whether full or thumb sized) still rules the input of data into computing devices.”

Virtualization.info: VMware Preparing a Virtual Appliance Framework?

“While virtual appliances are an interesting approach to software delivery which surely highlights great benefits of server virtualization, they hide some remarkable security risks.”

Virtualization Daily: The Growing War between VMWare and Microsoft

“Developers are free to choose whatever APIs they want and if they bundle their application as a virtual appliance it can be delivered to run on any underlying operating system.”

Chuck’s Blog: Much Ado About Nothing

“Maybe you saw the interesting white paper from a team at Google. … Sometimes disk drives don’t fail as you’d expect. That’s about the only thing you can conclude from the white paper.”