No tape media management, shipping, or storage costs. No tape recall costs. The cloud provider cuts tapes for you for long term archives. No risk of losing data on tape.

In my first article I introduced the concept of the virtualization journey.Next, I drilled into the main characteristics of cloud computing.Now I’d like to link them together and illustrate how ...

I came across an interesting post, Is Virtualization the Same as Cloud Computing?, published by Rajan Chandras. He, in turn, was commenting on an article that equated cloud computing and ...

Cloud computing resources include physical and virtual services, applications, data storage, development tools, AI-powered services, and VMs. Cloud assets are hosted at cloud data centers and ...

In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization has gone mainstream as businesses seek more productive and cost-effective ways. With cloud computing as one of the main drivers of digital ...

What IBM has to say about virtualization and cloud computing Written by Dan Kusnetzky, Contributor May 11, 2011 at 7:44 p.m. PT I'm attending a private IBM analyst event up in Somers, NY.

Last week I wrote about the impact cloud computing will have on IT operations. I noted that the increasing scale of data dramatically changes the expectations of how data centers are operated.

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 ...

The Opteron 6200 series, based on AMD’s Bulldozer-architecture, is being touted by the firm as the "world’s first" 16-core x86 CPU, with up to 3.3 GHz base frequency, while its 8-core ...