Practical App. Understanding Virtualization Classes in Cloud Computing. There are several different approaches to -- or classes of -- virtualization, each suited to their own specific situations.

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 ...

Amazon EC2, a giant in the cloud computing market, uses Xen virtualization, but Meadows says he believes KVM will be the open source hypervisor of choice in the long term, and points to IBM’s ...

Virtualization is at the core of cloud computing. Thanks to it, cloud vendors can provide a wide range of different services, operating systems, and other virtual machines while maximizing data ...

As I noted last week, Gartner calls cloud computing the next big thing. I characterized the ability to move from talent-constrained, capital intensive data center management to inexpensive, pay-as ...

According to a recent survey from Forrester Research, a majority of companies have adopted server virtualization, and a small but growing number of firms are piloting cloud computing initiatives.

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.” ...

And while cloud computing only accounts for about 1 percent of IT workloads today, the use of cloud computing to handle such workloads is growing 30 percent per year, he said.

IBM and The Planet are the latest vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms that compete against Amazon's EC2 service IBM announced in March that its test-and-dev cloud ...