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 ...

Leveraging virtualization technology, which enables users to access and store data over the Internet without managing their physical servers and intricate IT infrastructure, cloud computing has gained ...

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 ...

The tech industry is terrible at naming things. Ask 15 different people what they mean when they say "cloud" and you'll get a dozen different answers. Worse, those answers will change over time as the ...

Quick, what is the biggest knock against cloud computing? Is it the difficulty of migrating existing applications? Is it the legal, regulatory, and business risk posed by using external computing ...

Is cloud computing better than virtualization? Well, the answer depends on an organization's needs. Each method offers different benefits to its users. For instance, cloud computing is great if your ...

What will be the next hot IT trend in 2009 for state and local government? Government Technology informally polled prominent CIOs and security experts about their best guesses. Predictably no ...

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 ...

While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. "The ...