Ten years ago, the cloud computing industry was approaching a crossroads. Everyone—from students to developers to multinational corporations—seemed to be asking for more. More performance. Increased ...

Cloud computing is so ubiquitous today that most of us don’t even think about how revolutionary the concept was two decades ago. A lot has happened since commodity x86 virtualization came into being — ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business. Cloud computing is a viable option for many businesses. This ever-growing ...

Understanding the distinctions is essential for companies looking to modernize and maximize resources. Cloud computing and virtualization are not interchangeable terms, nor are they two different ...

A recent Reuters news item that equates virtualization and cloud computing is symptomatic of the ongoing confusion between the two terms. Without splitting hairs, are these really the same? (The ...

Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

Cloud computing is all about creating virtualized compute resources that we can tap into and use from anywhere, often from a mobile device. But virtualization existed long before the notion of cloud ...

This is the second article in a two-part series. The first part is here. Service virtualization is uniquely suited to support the needs of cloud-native applications. The solution’s principles support ...