We've all heard of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. What's the fourth type of cloud computing?

Cloud computing could not have happened without virtualization as the complexities of trying to expose a traditional data center as an online service are too complex to have ever been reliable.

In my first article I introduced the concept of the virtualization journey. Next, I drilled into the main characteristics of cloud computing. Now I’d like to link them together and illustrate ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business.

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 ...

Virtualization is the key to cloud computing, since it is the enabling technology allowing the creation of an intelligent abstraction layer which hides the complexity of underlying hardware or ...

Virtualization and cloud computing: 1+1=3? There are a million articles and blog posts out there about virtualization and cloud computing and their respective benefits, but here’s the reason you ...

Virtualization, like Cloud Computing, has no standard industry definition, and every definition can be correct. It also doesn’t have standard types, so we can classify it under three broad ...

Although most IT organizations are still in the early stages of testing out the concept, the shift toward private cloud computing is also going to cause more than a few IT organizations to rethink ...

Virtualization use cases Making the transition to virtualization in cloud computing can present challenges, but developing a strategic approach can reduce some of the complexities and limitations.