A recent online tech event about cost considerations for virtualization and cloud computing started out with the basics by explaining exactly what the difference is between the two, especially ...

Cloud computing and virtualization are not interchangeable terms, nor are they two different options to choose from when building your IT environment, system, or networks.

Edge Computing Edge computing is cloud provider owned and controlled infrastructure hosting latency-sensitive first-party cloud services. These will most likely be BDCA services. See here for a more ...

I came across an interesting post, Is Virtualization the Same as Cloud Computing?, published by Rajan Chandras.

Virtualization refers to technologies designed to provide a layer of abstraction between computer hardware systems and the software running on them. By providing a logical view of computing ...

Cloud computing vendors are moving toward a common definition and forming industry groups to collaborate on building cloud technologies.

Virtualization is the key to cloud computing, since it is the enabling technology allowing the creation of an intelligent abstraction layer which hides the complexity of underlying hardware or ...

How do virtualization and cloud usage affect compliance with PCI? QSAs Ben Rothke and David Mundhenk provide practical advice.

Get used to virtualization: The foundation of cloud computing is virtualization. Cloud computing is completely different to the superficially similar external hosting, aka ASP — a trend that ...

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 ...