Virtualisation seems like the solution to managing IT systems, but what are its faults?
- Article 18 of 33
- SC Magazine, October 2009
In a complex security world, virtualisation seems to be a brilliant solution. But the VM path is strewn with pitfalls, says Rob Buckley
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IBM employees can still use Second Life for meetings, and Second Life has its own meeting rooms as well. However, IBM has drawn up behavioural guidelines (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/virtualworlds.IBMVirtualWorldGuidelines.html) for its employees that they must abide by. These guidelines include security rules, and broadly state that Second Life is to be treated as a public place and so nothing must be discussed in it that could not be discussed in public.
The company has, however, been working with Linden Lab and other companies to create its own version of Second Life that lives behind its firewalls – a version that Linden Lab and IBM plan that they will eventually sell to other organisations.
Within that version, it is possible to control levels of access for each employee by tying in access to IBM's password-authentication system. Meetings in private rooms are not visible to those who have not been invited, and are held in separate regions, so it's not possible to ‘run between meetings'.
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