First, I'd like to personally thank everyone for being a valued member and reader of VMblog! Once again, with the help of each of you, VMblog has been able to remain one of the oldest and most successful virtualization and cloud news sites on the Web -- providing readers with valuable information i... Read More...

No, it's not the Wall Street fiasco of 2010. Flash has been the most over hyped technology in 2012. There's a ton of vendors in the market today pushing their flash hardware arrays - while consuming tons of investors' cash to stay afloat.... Read More...

In 2013, the software-defined network (SDN) conversation will shift away from moving bits around the lower layers of the network stack to managing complexity at the upper layers. This will help to create a bridge between the vision of what network virtualization is supposed to deliver and what is ne... Read More...

2012 was a breakthrough year for backup and disaster recovery. The technology behind online and hybrid backup solutions got faster and cheaper - and organizations of all sizes responded by accelerating adoption. What does 2013 hold?... Read More...

Enterprises gun-shy to offload critical business functions like email and infrastructure are doing a double take at the cost savings the cloud provides. 2013 will see more and more enterprise organizations moving critical business functions to the cloud because of efficiency and redundancy and to re... Read More...

With big changes happening in the IT industry every day, the one constant growth area is mobility. Being able to access your information from anywhere is quickly becoming the standard across industries, and more organizations are looking to provide access to enterprise programs and applications on a... Read More...

20 years ago, in my tiny Greenwich Village apartment, I was faced daily with the most excruciating of decisions: what do I keep and what do I throw away? I've read the book; should it linger on the one bookcase? I haven't worn that sweater in over a year; should it occupy valuable closet real estat... Read More...

In 2013, public cloud deployments will reach a critical tipping point where the early cloud adopter ranks are joined by an ever-growing set of enterprises who, after cutting their teeth on virtualization and private cloud, begin their inevitable migration of application workloads to the public cloud... Read More...