2011 is the year when enterprises finally start truly adopting cloud. That's the big theme for 2011. Before we get to what that means and why, though, let's start off with a working definition of cloud, at least for the purposes of this piece. Cloud means any on-demand virtualization compute platfo... Read More...

When I think about the key challenges that face organisations that have deployed virtualisation going forward into 2011, there are three things that spring to mind.... Read More...

Further enhancing the popular, open source, cross-platform virtualization software, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.... Read More...

Part one of this article suggested that IO bottlenecks on virtual platforms may be due to the normal behavior of NTFS, the Windows file system. In a virtual environment, where you have multiple copies of NTFS running on the same physical server, there is the potential for competition among VMs for... Read More...

If you can move faster than your competitors, you can exploit transient market opportunities before they do. Countless companies are betting on cloud computing as a technology path that will help give them that coveted speed and agility. The coming year will no doubt be riddled with predictions of i... Read More...