Virtualization

According to a new survey on cloud by Forrester, enterprises are much less conservative in their cloud technology plans than you might expect. But what users want and what some big vendors are pushing doesn't quite match up yet.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden shares a look at some interesting Silicon Valley cloud startups, and reports from Amazon's recent web services customer event on some early cloud success stories.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden wraps up his look at private clouds with practical advice on a smart start for enterprise IT groups.

Virtualization of the data center is provoking fundamental questions about the proper place for network security services. Will they simply disappear into the One True Cloud, dutifully following applications as they vMotion about the computing ether? Will they remain as a set of modular appliances physically separate from the server computing blob? Should everything be virtualized because it can be?

CIO.com's Bernard Golden recently explored the advantages of private clouds. This week, he looks at the downsides.

Confused about what your business can gain from private clouds? CIO.com's Bernard Golden shares practical advice on the main advantages of this flavor of cloud computing.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores the four key functions and services that must be in place for business application groups to take advantage of cloud computing: agile provisioning, application management, scalability and chargeback.

VMware recently weighed in with its definition of private clouds. CIO.com cloud guru Bernard Golden explains his definition -- and his assessment of how IT groups can benefit from this arrangement.

Two recent cloud computing conferences show innovative cloud computing management tools -- and an awful lot of IT skepticism. Get comfy with SaaS, folks. That's where software vendors are innovating.

While the report is interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it demonstrates how big picture strategy firms view cloud computing, it glosses over a number of issues, with ambiguous calculations and comparisons, argues CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden.