As a part of my daily activities, I set up, modify or use a number of  virtual machines that are used in my security research.  One of the others in the ISC stumbled across a very interesting project involving virtual systems.  The project is called ReAssure and is intended to give faculty staff and students a platform to use virtual machines in experimentation more effectively.  Also it appears that they provide a much more convenient way of storing and sharing these virtual images in a way that lends itself to derivative research. I would expect that others may be interested in this project and may be able to learn from the efforts at Purdue.

For more information, see http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/reassure/