It seems that every networking event this year, every tech magazine issue, and every vendor worth its salt is talking about “the cloud.” The cloud, in one of its many forms – public, private, or mixed – has become ubiquitous! I’ll confess: I started off my cloud gazing with little interest and several doubts, but […]

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Cost reduction, security, manageability and simplifying the migration to Windows 7 are driving organizations to adopt an aggressive deployment approach when it comes to desktop and application virtualization, say the results of a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Over half of the 546 organizations surveyed ranked desktop and application virtualization as a critical or major […]

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There’s a reason few companies generate their own electricity. It makes a lot more sense to let a utility build the infrastructure and then share it across many customers. By using a common facility, we all benefit from greater reliability and flexibility at lower cost. The same reasoning applies to cloud computing. But can the […]

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More medium-sized companies are investing in the cloud, according to a report commissioned by IBM. Cloud computing was a priority for 70 per cent of businesses surveyed, which said they were either planning or currently deploying cloud-based technologies to improve their IT systems. The report found that medium-sized businesses are increasingly shifting emphasis from cost […]

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