Techlabs Virtually Four Years On

ACM Queue, 2008

practices should be. While the participants might not always agree with each other, we hope their insights will help IT managers navigate the virtualization landscape and make informed decisions on how best to use the technology. Next month we will present part two of this forum, discussing such topics as clouds and virtualization, using virtualization to streamline desktop delivery, and how to choose appropriate virtual-machine platforms and management tools. MACHE CREEGER (moderator) is a longtime technology industry veteran based in Silicon Valley. Along with being an ACM Queue columnist, he is the principal of Emergent Technology Associates, marketing and business development consultants to technology companies worldwide. TOM BISHOP is CTO of BMC Software. Prior to BMC, he worked at Tivoli, both before and after its initial public offering and acquisition by IBM, and at Tandem Computers. Earlier in his career Bishop spent 12 years at Bell Labs' Naperville, Illinois, facility and then worked for Unix International. He graduated from Cornell University with both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. SIMON CROSBY is the CTO of the Virtualization Management Division at Citrix. He was one of the founders of XenSource and was on the faculty of Cambridge University, where he earned his Ph.D. in computer science. Crosby grew up in South Africa and has master's degrees in applied probability and computer science. GUSTAV is a pseudonym required by the policies of his employer, a large financial services company where he runs distributed systems. Early in his career, Gustav wrote assem-bler code for telephone switches and did CAD/CAM work on the NASA space station Freedom. He later moved to largesystem design while working on a government contract and subsequently worked for a messaging and security startup company in Silicon Valley, taking it public in the mid-1990s. After starting his own consulting firm, he began working at his first large financial firm. Seven or eight years later, he landed at his current company. ALLEN STEWART is a principal program manager in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. He began his career working on Unix and Windows operating systems as a system programmer and then moved to IBM, where he worked on Windows systems integration on Wall Street. After IBM, Stewart joined Microsoft, where for the first six years he worked as an architect in the newly formed Financial Services Group. He then moved into the Windows Server Division engineering organization. His primary focus is virtualization technologies: hardware virtualization, virtualization management, and application virtualization. Stewart is a Microsoft Certified Architect and is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program. STEVE HERROD is the CTO of VMware, where he has worked for seven years. Prior to that, he worked for EDS and Bell Northern Research. Earlier in his career he studied with Mendel Rosenblum, the founder of VMware, at Stanford and then worked for TransMeta, a computer hardware and software emulation company. STEVE BOURNE is chair of the ACM Professions Board. He is also a past president of ACM and editor-in-chief of the ACM Queue editorial advisory board. A fellow alumnus with Simon Crosby, Bourne received his Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Bourne held

2004

System and network administration education faces a significant challenge supplying students with both theory and hands-on practical experience. Students need real systems with root access in order to install and test popular services as a basis for learning key issues through experience. We present how networks of virtual machines can be used in education to provide the necessary environments for students to work on and expect to see cost savings, more challenging student assignments, a protected test environment for every student or group and better scalability for larger classes and most importantly, the ability to reconfigure and restore networks rapidly. This paper also presents a tool for the building and administration of virtual networks based on User-mode Linux[1]. This effort is a joint venture between lecturers from the University College of Oslo, University of Amsterdam, University of Linköping and other experienced lecturers in the field of system and network administra...

International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), 2012

This paper describes how to provide suitable computing systems for information systems technologies learning using virtualization and hosting technologies. The main functionalities and components of an university learning lab based on these technologies are presented. All the software components used in its development are open source. Also, the use of this lab, providing the computing systems required for the learning activities of different matters related to the information systems technologies, is illustrated. The model of computing lab proposed is a more sustainable and scalable alternative than the traditional academic computing lab.

In proceeding of: 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2013

Open source software (OSS) in academia can have multiple types of implementations and positive returns. This paper explores the use of OSS as a method to teach entrepreneurship concepts and practices to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. OSS allows for individuals to contribute and provide support services for applications. This will allow students to gain expertise in low level design, software project management, and software consulting services in order to successfully deploy their own spin off company. Covered in this submission will be examples of how the Linux software project development groups, mobile application development, video game design, and support services can be used in the classroom. These examples will serve as the base for any additions or changes in curriculum development, and design to aid institutions in deploying innovative programs in technology entrepreneurship to STEM students.

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2023

Virtualization is a concept in which multiple guest operating systems share a single piece of hardware. Server virtualization is the widely used type of virtualization in which each operating system believes that it has sole control of the underlying hardware. Server virtualization has already got its place in companies. Higher education institutes have also started to migrate to virtualized servers. The motivation for higher education institutes to adopt server virtualization is to reduce the maintenance of the complex information technology (IT) infrastructure. Data security is also one of the parameters considered by higher education institutes to move to virtualization. Virtualization enables organizations to reduce expenditure by avoiding building out more data center space. Server consolidation benefits the educational institutes by reducing energy costs, easing maintenance, optimizing the use of hardware, provisioning the resources for research. As the hybrid mode of learning is gaining momentum, the online mode of teaching and working from home options can be enabled with a strengthened infrastructure. The paper presents activities conducted during server virtualization implementation at RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, one of the reputed engineering institutes in India. The activities carried out include study of the current scenario, evaluation of new proposals and postimplementation review.