Dr. Dobb's Report

摘要

Welcome to Dr. Dobb's Report, a new monthly section in Informa-tion Week, focused on issues important to people responsible for software development. Business technology is only as good as the software that supports it, and developing good software is what Dr. Dobb's Report is all about. This month's Dr. Dobb's Report takes a look at how companies can use virtu-alization to reap perhaps overlooked benefits, particularly in improving developer productivity. But virtualization has problems of its own. Take security: According to Exaprotect VP Thierry Costa, virtualization is ushering in new risks that need to be understood. For example, once the hypervisor is compromised, one exploited virtual machine can compromise others on the host server. Current antivirus tools can't always deal with these active malicious processes. And while attacks directed at the hypervisor have been rare, the risk is real. So, do you feel lucky? Do you?