Links List 5.16.08

Posted May 16th, 2008 by Joe Pendry

VMware announced their site recovery manager (SRM) this week, and EMC’s Chuck Hollis discusses the reasons why it has the potential to be such an important tool for disaster recovery, testing, and budgeting.

James Fee at Spatially Adjusted asks people what they think about developing applications in a virtualized environment. He says, “The upside of having different virtual environments available to me to use and not have any spillover into my “real” operating system seems greater than the downside of performance (especially on my laptop).”

Stacey at Blogging Hyperic alerts us to major outages from Information Week and CRN. There has been no official word on the cause for the downtime, but combined with the recent Slashdot downtime, tech readers are sure to be “fairly frazzled” at their online news sources.

Virtualization Report’s David Marshall shares a podcast with two service organizations that are helping customer pushing virtualization into the datacenter to improve server consolidation, disaster recovery & business continuity, migrations, and more.

Twitter continues to experience downtime, and many feel it’s an issue of scalability. Venture Beat issues a plea to the company to fix it’s downtime problems.

Agile software development focused project managers should implement a change management process procedure to avoid project failure. This as well as testing and planning recommendations are outlined by enoughpm.com.