Whether you’re a business owner or system administrator, you’ve probably been approached about “cloud computing,” an umbrella term encompassing many different platforms and a major source of confusion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Cloud computing brings great promise, but also confusion to the IT industry. Key questions are answered here. Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion ...

It is difficult to list the top three challenges to the adoption of cloud computing because, above all, I am convinced that before broad adoption can occur, the IT industry has to come to a common ...

Even amid the proliferation of mobile technology in K–12 schools through BYOD programs and one-to-one computing, desktop computers remain a popular choice. But given the advancements of Infrastructure ...

Enterprises are beginning to change their buying behaviors based on the deployment speed, economics and customization that cloud-based technologies provide. Gartner cautions however that enterprises ...