Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Blog

The ever-growing number of cloud computing providers, combined with the pressure to select just the right service to prevent catastrophic IT and career failure, prevents many CIOs from moving forward with their cloud computing plans. CIO.com blogger and cloud computing expert Bernard Golden explains how IT leaders can keep their cloud plans moving forward.

Anyone familiar with Linux is probably familiar with virtual desktops. If you're not, download VirtuaWin and take a look. This utility takes your Windows desktop, clones it up to nineteen times, then lets you switch between them. The idea is to keep a set of related programs or documents on each desktop to help organize things for people who leave lots of applications and documents open.

Advice on how to get results from virtualization and IT consolidation projects.

Cloud computing, with its emphasis on massive scale and efficiency, is changing the entire cost and design structures of data centers.

PaaS, or Platform as a Service, development offerings bring tremendous power and productivity to IT departments, along with a host of new challenges. Bernard Golden explains what CIOs need to know about this nascent segment of the cloud computing market.

There is no question that corporate IT departments need to change their cultures and their organizational structures to compete with cloud providers, but doing so introduces a variety of practical challenges--including convincing the CFO to embrace a new funding model for IT.

The consumerization of IT isn't just about employees using consumer devices and apps at work. It's about consumers becoming the primary users of internal IT applications, and it has serious ramifications for how CIOs operate and scale their IT infrastructures.

CIO.com's Virtualization and Cloud blogger Bernard Golden presents a clear picture of what the IT world will look like when cloud computing becomes the status quo. The future of IT has never looked more promising.

There is an enormous amount of controversy about whether the capex or opex approach to cloud computing is less expensive. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores some possible outcomes of a shift from capex to opex and utilization risk.

Data center construction is growing ever more complex and expensive as data center facilities expand to meet enterprises' seemingly limitless computing needs.