Cloud Computing Shopping List: 4 Key Ingredients
Facing strong concerns about control and security, the cloud-computing trend has drifted somewhat-- away from the notion that all computing resources can be had from outside, and toward a vision of a...
View ArticleCloud computing: Small starts can have a big impact
Despite predictions that cloud computing will change the economics and strategic direction of corporate IT, the cloud's greatest impact so far has been in focused, often small projects that owe little...
View ArticleCloud Computing: Today's four favourite flavours, explained
Cloud computing is famous for being a metaphor instead of a technology, but that metaphor is increasingly hard for non-techies to understand. Many variations of cloud have emerged that have little to...
View ArticleCitrix Strikes Surprise Blow Against VMware with Cisco Deal
Within the last ten days, Citrix Systems and VMware have each landed surprise blows in a fight that has heated up from an us-vs.-them platform debate to a real sparring match in the cloud and virtual...
View ArticleCitrix launches fresh cloud attack on VMware
Rivals Citrix and VMware have taken their battle beyond technology development, even beyond marketing. Now they're working on the imaginations and psychology of potential customers and, to a certain...
View ArticleLG, VMware aim to deliver two phones in one
The agreement announced this week by VMware and LG electronics will act a proof of concept of VMware's virtualization technology on mobile devices, but may not do either VMware or LG much good...
View ArticleVirtualization on mobile devices: what's taking so long?
Despite years of marketing pressure and products that are simpler to use and more widely available, desktop virtualization hasn't taken off to the extent that vendors and analysts expected even a few...
View ArticleServer virtualization: Six management myths
During the past three to five years, when most companies began rolling out virtual servers in earnest as replacements for physical servers, acceptance has grown so quickly among both end users and IT...
View Article5 ways you waste money on virtualization
More than three quarters of U.S. companies virtualize at least some of their x86-based servers, but few get their full money's worth out of virtualization efforts -- due to management blunders,...
View ArticleTwo open-source Cloud standards: What it means to you
It's unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized...
View Article5 virtualisation management tips to live by
Neither Cloud computing nor virtual servers were intended as agents that would change traditional IT organisations, says Rachel Dines, a researcher at Forrester Research who specialises in IT...
View ArticleVM stall: How to avoid a sneaky virtualization project enemy
Virtualizing and consolidating data-center servers provides such clear a financial benefit that there are few companies of any size, in any industry that shouldn't virtualize at least some of their...
View ArticleCalculating virtualization, cloud costs: Four approaches
Until recently, almost no IT industry vendor or analyst questioned the assumption that nearly all kinds of virtualization deliver quick, significant cost savings compared to computing only in the...
View ArticleIf you use it, mobile malware will come
IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems.
View ArticleMac desktop security: The landscape is changing
Only about 20 percent of Americans think Macs are vulnerable to viruses, compared to more than half who describe PCs as "vulnerable" or "very vulnerable" to attack by viruses, according to Alex Stamos,...
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