Missed this one, somehow, when John wrote it. John Sequeira has a good thought piece, linked below, on the connection between data center automation, lab management, and Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services. Bottom line is John is a fan of virtual labs.
Archive for April, 2007
Corporate Learning Market $55B+
April 27, 2007A recent study by Bersin & Associates, “Corporate Learning Factbook” has some interesting stats.
- Total spending on corporate learning now tops $55 billion, up from $51B in 2005
- 60% of their respondents use virtual classroom technologies, and 25% use other technologies designed to enhance the learning process
- Technology companies spend an average of $2,763 per learner
- Sales training and management training are the highest priorities for corporate learning.
For more see www.bersin.com/factbook
VMware Lab Manager 2.5 Reaches Public Beta
April 25, 2007David Marshall at InfoWorld notes the release of the latest beta of VMware Lab Manager
livewebclass.com Blog » How to Avoid a Train Wreck
April 25, 2007Jim Recker, formerly of Siebel University and Oracle and now the founder of Nekoss, presented a webinar yesterday on how to maximize the attentiveness of students in a virtual training environment by using virtual labs.
The four seasons of a virtual machine
April 23, 2007Computerworld article about how using virtual machines as a consolidator has inflitrated office life well beyond the data center
CEdMA Spring Conference
April 17, 2007The CEdMA (Computer Education Management Association) Spring Conference takes place this week in San Jose, Weds 4/18 and Thurs 4/19.
http://www.cedma.org/src/meetings.php
There will be many conversations regarding the use of virtual labs in training.
Techworld.com – Five more ways to screw up virtualisation
April 17, 2007Great series by Robert Mitchell about addressing the challenges of implementing virtualization in an enterprise environment.
Virtual Strategy: Common Misconceptions of Server Consolidation
April 17, 2007Consultant Scott Feuless takes apart many of the notions that consolidation via virtualization will automatically make things better in an enterprise computing environment. He notes that many of the attributes automatically attributed to virtualization — reduced staff, less equipment, increased reliability, etc — actually require significant management process changes and standardization in order to be realized. His recommendation is to focus on application management and to use virtualization as one of many tools in your toolkit in order to get there.
Original article at Virtual Strategy magazine
