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New Columnist Tackles Tech

New columnist Eric Hall adds a much more technical voice to InformationWeek. Eric is a hands-on network specialist whose focus (so far--we're giving Eric freedom to write on whatever he thinks is most important) has been on how to keep your servers humming. In his latest contribution, Eric takes a look at VMware, virtualization technology designed to allow users to run multiple operating environments without running multiple hardware systems.

Eric describes some of the problems he had deciding which VMware product to use, difficulties getting the software up and running, and how he overcame those problems. He also takes a glance at VMware's newest product, ESX 3.0, with new features targeted for data center installations.

Eric tackled virtualization earlier this month, looking at how VMware's and Microsoft's decisions to release versions of their products for free are part of the drive of virtualization technology into the mainstream.

Last month, Eric wrote about how to tell if your system really needs more memory, or whether you can save more money just by optimizing usage of the memory you already have.

You can find all of Eric's articles (by "all," I mean "all two of them" as of now, although of course we're looking forward to seeing more of him) on his authors page. He also contributes regularly to the InformationWeek Weblog.

Eric has had a broad, 20-year career in IT: He managed a regional network for a multinational corporation, served as lab director for InformationWeek sister magazine Network Computing, consulted big business, worked for a Silicon Valley startup, and founded his own startups. We're pleased to have him in our bullpen of writers--in particular, he serves as a nice complement to Fred Langa (see Fred's author page).

By the way, did you know about our authors page? You can see photos of most of our writers, get a bit of biography for each of them, find contact information, and keep up to date on all their articles--including subscribing to an RSS feed for each individual author. You can even go to the authors page for this ugly sonofagun--what'd they put his picture on the site for, are they trying to break people's monitors?

Write me if you want to recommend a good plastic surgeon or have anything else to say--but don't expect an answer soon. I'm going on vacation any minute now. Back in a couple of weeks. But don't worry, the site will keep running without me, in the capable hands of my colleagues. You won't even notice I'm gone. You unfeeling brutes, you.

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