Virtualization

If IBM is setting up a senior organization to push cloud computing, you're going to have to have a cloud strategy. Pooh-poohing it when IBM's CEO is talking it up with your CEO isn't a good idea.

Is cloud computing a sustaining or disruptive innovation? Both. But it's utltimately likely to be disruptive, despite the efforts of many IT organizations to corral it as a sustaining innovation. If that's you, your job's in peril.

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing increases. Here's why.

Many homes now resemble mini-data centers, and pose the same type of problems that corporate data centers face, albeit at smaller overall volumes. Here's my modest idea for a storage solution that would solve multiple headaches and protect your footage of your child taking his or her first steps.

If packaged software is like buying a fully tricked-out luxury car, then surely cloud computing is like taking a taxi.

Two big pieces of news last week: VMware expanded its desktop virtualization strategy and released a set of management APIs for its ESXi (free) hypervisor. Here's what it means to you.

Amazon has provided a great starting point for enterprises that want to experiment with its EC2 cloud service. Now, cloud neophytes can learn how to build real systems, using data sets that match the size and complexity of those in the enterprise.

A whitepaper misquotes a study's numbers on client virtualization: It's just one example of why instead of just swallowing predictions, you should evaluate the potential payback for client virtualization in your own environment.

Smart CIOs will be looking at client virtualization with open eyes, particularly in this economic environment.

It's unlikely that Amazon will put Akamai or Limelight out of business with its new CloudFront service. But there's a good chance we'll look back in a few years and see CloudFront has transformed content delivery networks much as Ford transformed cars, by making them affordable to many more businesses.