Server virtualization epitomizes the benefits of abstracting logical IT resources from their physical manifestation. Hypervisors like VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V create immense efficiencies ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced new servers that come pre-configured with Microsoft software to help companies deploy virtualized workloads more quickly. HP’s VirtualSystem for Microsoft includes ...

Amazon Web Services upped the ante in the cloud price wars Monday by saying it would become the first major public cloud operator to start billing customers by the second for virtual servers and ...

In this cloud-centric world, physical servers have settled into the background. Today, it's all about on-demand services where you contract with another company to manage your servers, usually in some ...

Until recently, almost no IT industry vendor or analyst questioned the assumption that nearly all kinds of virtualization deliver quick, significant cost savings compared to computing only in the ...

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The need for business process automation (BPA) doesn’t start and stop within an enterprise’s premises any longer. “There needs to be automation now in an orchestrated way across a wide range of ...

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How much of an organization’s IT capabilities – including processors, storage and network – can be virtualized and moved into the cloud? Quite a bit, according to Craig Mathias, principal at advisory ...

Where Windows 8 is an operating system built for the tablet, Windows Server 8 is an operating system built for the cloud. Not the Windows Azure public cloud; rather, it's built for "private clouds": ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Cloud computing is all about creating virtualized compute ...