Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

Ten years ago, the cloud computing industry was approaching a crossroads. Everyone—from students to developers to multinational corporations—seemed to be asking for more. More performance. Increased ...

During her keynote session at Interop New York 2008, Hattar pulled the sheet off of virtualization's mysteries -- whether you consider it a "one to many" or a "many to one" technology -- defining it ...

I find it puzzling whenever I come across any reasonably sized IT infrastructure that has little or no virtualization in place, and my puzzlement turns to amazement if there’s no plan to embrace ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business. Cloud computing is a viable option for many businesses. This ever-growing ...

Virtualization in cloud computing can reduce the resources and costs involved in running operating systems, making it easier to test applications in multiple environments. As more organizations adopt ...

IBM, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ohio State University join forces to develop management technologies suited for dynamic virtual data centers hosted in cloud computing environments.

Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren’t taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste ...

I’m in Korea this week to keynote at the IDG “Virtualization in Action” conference, and I observed a fascinating disconnect while here. First, and this should be no surprise, the conference could just ...

IT people with skills and experience in server virtualization, cloud computing or both have a far greater chance of getting and keeping jobs than most other IT people now, according to recruiters and ...

Since its sizzling IPO over the summer, VMware (VMW) has begun to chill. The company's stock price has recently pulled back approximately 20 percent from its high, and some analysts are even ...

Survey reveals one-third of enterprise security managers believe the technologies make security 'harder,' while one-third say it was 'easier' Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making ...