Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Blog

Cloud is reshaping many delivery models. You can use this as a chance to reinvent your business, if you focus on true value and identify new opportunities -- or you can watch cloud ruin a nice existing business.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden wraps up the key cloud computing developments from the VMworld show this week.

Midsized companies will find cloud computing suits their focus, operational requirements, and investment capablities, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's why midmarket may be a cloud sweet spot.

The Internet is the underlying transportation system for how our economy and society operates, and its growth will accelerate the move to the cloud. CIO's Bernard Golden outlines some ways that the people in IT can plan for this growth.

How can you prepare your IT organization for a world where employees must create and collaborate outside of the company? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains McKinsey's vision of co-creation and shares four pieces of advice.

Are private clouds a pipe dream for all but a few enterprises? CIO.com's Bernard Golden sorts through the newest cloud predictions for enterprise IT's future and shares some practical advice.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses what cloud agility means and shares examples of the kind of business agility that is fostered by cloud computing.

Take a look at the all-in cloud strategy of the Telegraph Media Group. It's an instructive lesson in how rapidly the business world is changing and why IT must take an approach that supports it.

Amazon Web Services support has come under fire recently. But as CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains, many of the problems start when IT organizations make false assumptions about who's responsible for application scaling and maintenance.

Sure, cloud computing and its associated organizational changes raise emotions, but IT leaders must get real -- or get labeled irrelevant, CIO.com's Bernard Golden warns.