Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of C5 instances, aimed at more compute-intensive workloads for the EC2 cloud. The C5 instances – three from the sharp end in Amazon’s compute ...

During her keynote session at Interop New York 2008, Hattar pulled the sheet off of virtualization's mysteries -- whether you consider it a "one to many" or a "many to one" technology -- defining it ...

Quick, what is the biggest knock against cloud computing? Is it the difficulty of migrating existing applications? Is it the legal, regulatory, and business risk posed by using external computing ...

While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. "The ...

Desktop virtualization is booming, and Citrix has shipped 1.5 million copies of Xen Desktop 4 since launch the product last fall. But at its Synergy conference in San Francisco this week, Citrix is ...

Cloud computing may seem more hype than reality as the technology industry is busy refining the term. However, substantive business and market trends are catapulting cloud computing to the forefront.

I find it puzzling whenever I come across any reasonably sized IT infrastructure that has little or no virtualization in place, and my puzzlement turns to amazement if there’s no plan to embrace ...

Survey reveals one-third of enterprise security managers believe the technologies make security 'harder,' while one-third say it was 'easier' Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making ...

The race to lay a robust foundation for hybrid cloud computing is likely to be determined by which vendor ultimately puts the most comprehensive stack of software in place across multiple clouds.

Are you trying to figure out the whole cloud computing vs. virtualization thing, huh? It’s a big deal, especially if you want to save cash or get the best performance for your buck. Cloud computing ...