I thought I would pass this information along.  I realize there are a number of books on the market right now covering the topic of virtualization.  Heck, I have two books myself (shameless plug)!  When I published the first book, I'm pretty sure it was my book and maybe one or two others on the subject of server virtualization.  And at that time, publishers were returning my emails telling me that virtualization was either a fad or just some easily understood consumer application.  Those same publishers are now eating their words, and all of them are publishing books on the subject every chance they get!  Glad to have you guys on board, I hope those people don't still work for you.  Anyway, now, the online book stores are crowded with these types of books. 

But this one caught my attention.  First, it comes from a friend of mine, Tarry Singh.  The guy definitely knows his stuff when it comes to virtualization and the cloud.  But the second thing was that in addition to learning about virtualization from a pro, you also get to send money to a good cause - War Child.  Here is the information from Tarry:

Dear All,

My book ( http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-vm-manager-2-1-2/book ) on Virtualization (which also discusses on building and managing Elastic Data Center) is about to get published. I will be in San Francisco for the signing event as well. Hopefully I may also do a keynote/session. We are still working on that.

What is different about my Virtualization book?

I have long wanted to differentiate from the rest and that I achieved by writing a book which is on a different league. Most of you are already seeing a lot of books (many repeats actually) on VMware. I was contemplating of doing something more exciting on VMware, focus on apps and I did that by writing detailed articles of building Oracle RAC on VMware. Anyways so this book is different than the rest.

What does it have to do with War Child ( http://www.warchild.org/ )?

But I wasn’t satisfied. I was born and brought up in India. I have seen abject poverty while my own childhood was rather luxurious. My dad was in the marines and we had a great life. I have never been able to understand why a kid has to suffer. WHY? As if that [extreme poverty] wasn’t enough, putting the kids through the horrors of war is absolutely unthinkable. Getting them a book and a school is what my vision is, getting them out of war is my lifetime mission.

I love technology and surely hope that you will get that book for the sheer hard work that I put in to make it fun for you all while you learn new technologies. But do also know that if somewhere, someplace a kid is getting a better life, it is YOU who is making it happen. I will give 50% of my royalties to the foundation.

Thanks heaps for listening.

Tarry