When it comes to cloud computing IBM is making a big statement this week that the status quo remains. “Whatever you want,” seems to also apply to cloud computing. The company revealed some stats and made some SmartCloud announcements that make a very strong statement about its cloud services...

VMware's SVP & GM of Cloud Infrastructure and Management, Raghu Raghuram, tells about the software defined data center, and how virtualized infrastructure will bring in more flexibility and efficiency...

Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous in today’s businesses, with the rising popularity of free SaaS applications like Dropbox and Google Apps, among others. For IT decision makers, however, the decision to migrate all back-end and mission-critical applications to the cloud may not be the most appropriate - at least for now...

Cloud computing is everywhere these days and is becoming increasingly vital to any IT strategy. Forrester forecasts that the global cloud market will grow from $40.7 billion to more than $241 billion in 2020. We’ve compiled a list of the top cloud influencers and thought leaders that we’ve followed since the cloud’s inception...

With the increasing challenges of maintaining numerous servers, coupled with the high cost of keeping a robust data center, small and medium businesses are now seeking alternative solutions to keep their IT systems and infrastructure less costly while still being efficient, and at a healthy pace against competition...

Unlike an “infrastructure cloud” such as Amazon EC2, a platform cloud lets developers build and host applications without worrying about virtual servers and other raw computing resources. “It lets you worry about the app,” Derek Collison, one of the founders of Cloud Foundry, told us this past fall, “and not virtual machines or what operating system they’re running or all this other stuff.”...

Cloud migration is based on five simple steps: Purchase, Plan, Assess, Execute and Monitor . Each should be a stage of practicing efficient cloud deployment...

“VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.”..

One solution often proffered is to put a template image through a conversion process (commonly referred to as virtual-to-cloud, or V2C) to make it able to run in another environment. There are two problems with this solution, however.

With Windows 8, Microsoft extends its server-class hypervisor platform to the desktop. And no, it's not just a play for enthusiasts and testers: There's a solid reason for Hyper-V to become the backbone of future Windows versions...

vSphere 5.0 is the latest release of the company's virtualization platform, and the new version contains a number of industry-leading firsts...

The tight hold VMware has enjoyed in the server virtualization market will continue to erode this year as Microsoft's momentum increases and others, including Citrix and KVM, become serious contenders, industry observers say...

Private PaaS is overcoming existential angst, to really keep me busy in terms of client inquiries. For some people, private PaaS is an oxymoron: ‘how can it be a service if my organization hosts the infrastructure’? Admittedly, to date, most of the discussion about PaaS has been purely in terms of describing a public cloud...

In a bid to make virtualisation and cloud computing more palatable to enterprises which have a high concentration of mobile users, or are implementing a Bring your Own Device (BYOD) strategy, VMware has launched a fistful of new products and a public beta of a system that offers what it describes as “Dropbox for the enterprise”...

Some IT pros will move from VMware to Hyper-V when new virtualization management tools in Microsoft’s System Center 2012 and a new version of Hyper-V hit later this year. Though switching hypervisors can be a challenge, some say that the cost savings make it a worthwhile move...