Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Blog

Once you decide to take cloud as the medicine for what ails your IT organization, you'll have to change organizational process, not just infrastructure says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. He shares some expert advice on that, plus standardization, training, and related rollout issues.

Organizations looking to deploy private clouds must understand where they're headed. A development cloud is an appropriate start, but consider these three scenarios for how use of your cloud will evolve -- for better or for worse, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

Is cloud computing a disruptive innovation, as defined by Clayton Christensen? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores whether internal data centers will go the way of companies that are innovated out of business.

At this week's CloudConnect conference, many attendees showed that they've moved from studying to implementing, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. He shares some interesting lessons learned on cloud economics, IT organization and privacy issues.

Vivek Kundra's plans to transform Federal IT to include a significant dependence on cloud computing have widespread implications, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a peek at what's coming and what the obstacles are.

Many companies squirm when they hear about cloud providers' use of commodity hardware. But organizational process waste is the real enemy now, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

Will the IT group of the future emphasize commodity, or play a vital role in business offerings? CIO.com's Bernard Golden says both views are true -- and the CIO of the future has to push one to make room to achieve the other.

How will cloud computing change the various roles within an IT organization and how will it change their importance, relative to one another? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explores some key issues.

Cloud computing will kill capacity planning as CIOs know it and utilization risk will move to cloud providers, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's his take on what IT and airlines will soon have in common -- plus three strategies for avoiding trouble.

The ease of cloud computing and the explosion of computing devices means that the nature of IT and the role of CIO is going to change dramatically.