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 ...

I have been following a Linkedin conversation based on the questions, "When choosing a cloud platform, is the virtualization platform a major decision point? Statistically, how many folks would love ...

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 ...

This week Jim is at the Interop conference in Vegas where he is moderating ten sessions. In his opening session, entitled Application Delivery 2.0, Jim will discuss why he thinks that the movement to ...

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 ...

VMware on Tuesday unveiled vSphere, its next-generation virtualization technology on which customers and partners can virtualize data center resources to build cloud computing infrastructures. The new ...

Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making network security easier or harder? When some 2,100 top IT and security managers in 27 countries were asked, the response revealed a profound lack ...

CERN, the European particle physics organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, is embracing server virtualization and cloud computing technology to improve CPU utilization and the delivery of ...

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 ...

The buzzword of 2009 seems to be “cloud computing.” And it’s being fueled by a recession that’s taking on the global economy like a prize fighting champ. When you start to look at the bottom line, you ...

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 ...