Virtualization and Cloud Advisor Blog

As the general value proposition of cloud computing has bcome accepted there is an increased interest in cloud TCO. CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses the economics of cloud computing and shares other notes from the CloudConnect conference.

As software becomes more complex, and demands the scalability of the cloud, IT's auto mechanic of today, the sysadmin, will disappear. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

Cloud computing will alter IT operations and costs, these changes mean that two very strong friction points for applications -- resource provisioning and funding -- will dwindle. What does this mean for applications? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains.

In 1986, Attorney Nicholas Barrett founded Nicholas Barrett & Associates with just himself and an assistant running the business. But over the last 24 years, that small two-person office has grown into a bustling 45-person law firm specializing in litigation, real estate law, collections, and loan servicing.

How will the pay-as-you-go aspect of cloud computing change the relationship -- and balance of power -- between IT and business units? CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains.

During the next two to five years, you'll see enormous conflict about the technical pros and cons of cloud computing. Three of cloud's key characteristics will create three IT revolutions, each with supporters and detractors. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains the first of these, involving scalability and IT operations.

Cautious optimism is the anecdotal sentiment we hear most often when discussing the health and demeanor of enterprise IT, and data in a recent Network World technology priorities study bears that out.

Despite the fact that data center staffing and budgets face plenty of pressure, IT shops say they want to build out private clouds. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains the truth about these two trends.

Assumptions we have traditionally used to design application architectures are increasingly outmoded, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Application architectures will change - just as much as IT operations - during the next five years due to the nature of cloud computing applications.

Take a peek at the cloud's role in the web pages of the future: built on the fly from a portfolio of high-volume applications. CIO.com's Bernard Golden takes you inside the next wave of application scale and what it means for IT ops.