Virtualisation has been one of the hot topics of 2008. But the technology has held pitfalls both technical and administrative. The technician has lots to think about - system loads, application management, server management and more.
But IT administration can also suffer headaches in the world of virtualisation - such as how many licenses are needed in a virtualised environment.
This year, Microsoft took a look at its licensing and decided that a new model is needed for virtualisation users. This week, Microsoft's Craig Martin explains the new licensing regime to A Series of Tubes.
And in this week's sponsor interview, Tubes goes trend-spotting with Nortel's Mitch Radomir, covering IP telephony, Web services, hosted services, and - yes - virtualisation.