Mike is a server and systems guru. He used to be a support technician for Allaire and Macromedia. After that, he helped found Webapper. When it comes to things like JVM tuning, advanced server configuration, application bottleneck troubleshooting and a lot more, few come close to Mike's capabilities.
Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMWare and Xensoft are colaborating in an initiative to create an industry standard for distributed virtual machines. The proposed name for the standard is OVF for Open Virtual Machine Format. This was announced on September 10, 2007 and in my opinion is another important milestone in the evolution of virtualization and is also indicative of the rapidly maturing possibilities offered by virtualization.