PC Blade Daily Links 2007-07-09

[Daily Post from ClearCube] PC Blade Daily: Competitive Advantage in the Modern Enterprise

“In short order, businesses may be dragged kicking and screaming into virtualization and outsourcing.”

Information Week: Skills Shortage Plagues Rapid Spread Of Virtualization, Says EMA

“Most IT managers have dipped a toe in the virtualization pool, but they haven’t written out a set of requirements for virtual machine creation. ‘Document an approval cycle,’ urged Mann.”

Documenting a virtualization project: End score (consolidation, power etc.)

“Our virtualization project has come to an end a while ago but I would like to share the end score and some of the savings achieved with this project.”

silicon.com: Cheat sheet: Grey nets

“Ask IT bosses how many of their staff use consumer instant messaging at work and then ask the staff. You may well get very different answers.”

The Register: Google: Our data retention is not data protection watchdogs’ business

“Google has been embroiled in controversy over the fact that it stores records of what users have searched for along with internet protocol addresses that could be used to identify the searcher.”