Abstraction--the first main advantage of virtualization--is the foundation of cloud computing. By separating operating systems and applications from the underlying hardware platform ...

I have always given credit to Microsoft Visio as the reason the term “cloud computing” came to represent services provided outside the data center. Whenever the network geeks want to draw out ...

Hypervisor Architecture The hypervisor supports hardware-level virtualization on bare-metal ... "Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things" by Kai Hwang ...

In this piece, Winston describes how the lack of standards inhibits customers from taking advantage of the full potential of cloud computing ... moves through to Level 3 as virtualization and ...

Ten years ago, the cloud computing industry was approaching ... Moving to a new, hardware-based approach to virtualization was a logical, although daunting, decision. AWS had largely been using ...