If last year was the year of cloud computing awareness and adoption, the next phase of the cloud evolution will bring maturation and convergence. The previous year proved that, for many organizations, cloud computing can meet the demand for improved IT efficiency. The cloud can deliver a virtualized... Read More...

Whether you want to call it virtualization or private cloud, enterprises are rapidly transforming their datacenters to take advantage of the ROI benefits that cloud computing brings. Already in 2010, we saw the number of virtual machines outnumber physical systems not running virtualization. Gartner... Read More...

2010 was the year of cloud understanding and "testing the waters". Within the enterprise and 2011 will be the year of cloud adoption. The hype around cloud computing will calm down and real adoption will accelerate in 2011, as analyst firms like Gartner and IDC have predicted that in the next five ... Read More...

It is a generally accepted opinion that the Cloud opportunity is exploding, changing the landscape of information technology (IT). As we start to wind down 2010 and think about 2011, here are three critical Cloudy areas that are going to be worth watching, and I also include one dark horse predictio... Read More...

Virtual appliances will continue to grow in popularity as a delivery model... Read More...

As I sat down to write this, I managed to surprise myself by realizing that I'm about to close out my 8th year in the virtualization space, and I can honestly say this past year has been one of the most remarkable in terms of the growth of virtualization. The market has matured so much already, and... Read More...

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...