Cloud computing, when first introduced, relied on off-the-shelf components: hardware and software designed to support on-premises data centers, not shared resources in the cloud. Today, however, ...

Are you trying to figure out the whole cloud computing vs. virtualization thing, huh? It’s a big deal, especially if you want ...

Last month the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (aka RAD Lab) published Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.” The report is an excellent overview of the ...

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 ...

Despite recent advancements and improved parallelism in multi-core CPU performance, there is still a big challenge to be solved relating to the scale-out of cloud applications. Put simply, Linux ...

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 ...

Midsized companies will find cloud computing suits their focus, operational requirements, and investment capabilities, says CIO.com’s Bernard Golden. Here’s why midmarket may be a cloud sweet spot. I ...