Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Blog

Looking ahead, CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses ten developments he expects to see in cloud computing for service providers and enterprise users.

The most recent data on server shipments gives you a preview of what the IT landscape will look like in the next few years -- and the opportunity to plan for a new world rather than find yourself dumped there, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

There's a lot of talk right now about the fear of cloud vendor lock-in and the desire to wait for cloud standards to avoid lock-in. But some CIOs have discovered that the flip side of waiting for standardization is an opportunity cost -- for the business.

A new white paper sponsored by Microsoft may be a watershed event in the debate on cloud economics, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Its conclusions regarding private cloud costs will surprise some.

You might think that users would prefer to avoid chargeback because they currently get resources for free, and implementing chargeback would result in more budgetary outflow. But you'd be wrong, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

While speaking at a cloud computing conference in Korea, CIO.com's Bernard Golden learns that cloud in Korea is still a research topic, not an action item. Here are some lessons from this disconnect.

Federal agencies will soon be able to order up computing services on demand via the apps.gov portal. CIO.com's Bernard Golden shares insight on what the GSA and other companies moving to an IaaS model should expect.

Cloud is enabling a new crop of affordable telephony and videoconferencing options -- and even more innovation is en route. CIO.com's Bernard Golden shares his thoughts on what this means for you and for the marketplace.

Open source apps combined with cloud infrastructure do more than free enterprises from the speed and cost limitations of traditional packaged software. Open source combined with public IaaS and SaaS can power a new generation of applications, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

You hear lots of talk that Amazon's on-demand public cloud offering is used mostly by small companies, but that's not the reality, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. And as happened with open source, developers are leading the charge.