At VMworld,in Monday’s keynote, the attendees saw a demo for how this (social network for virtual machines, ed. ) might work. It shows how a social network populated with machines can spread word to each other. When one host finds an issue, it updates its activity stream. Other hosts and virtual machines will “like,” the update if they are having similar issues.
The VMware example points to an inevitable future. The machines will have a voice. They will communicate in increasingly human-like ways. In the near term, the advancements in the use of social technologies will provide contextual ways to manage data centers. Activity streams serve as the language that people understand. They help translate the interactions between machines so problems can be diagnosed
+1 and like (and this will be tweeted). I like how nature, and in this case human interactions, albeit limited by the social networks’ capabilities, inspire ‘new’ technological advancements