No tape media management, shipping, or storage costs. No tape recall costs. The cloud provider cuts tapes for you for long term archives. No risk of losing data on tape.

Bakshi: Virtualization is an absolute component of cloud computing. I think we'll agree there's a ton of hype behind cloud and what cloud is and what cloud isn't, and things like that. But we've been ...

Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. ... Desktop virtualization makes this easy as all data is offloaded to the server or secured SAN.

In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization has gone mainstream as businesses seek more productive and cost-effective ways. With cloud computing as one of the main drivers of digital ...

Last week I wrote about the impact cloud computing will have on IT operations. I noted that the increasing scale of data dramatically changes the expectations of how data centers are operated.

Virtualization in cloud computing can reduce the resources and costs involved in running operating systems, making it easier to test applications in multiple environments. As more organizations ...

What IBM has to say about virtualization and cloud computing Written by Dan Kusnetzky, Contributor May 11, 2011 at 7:44 p.m. PT I'm attending a private IBM analyst event up in Somers, NY.

A new layer of software, typically running in a far-off data center, tricks users into thinking they are using a desktop PC like before. Subscribe To Newsletters Featured ...

Cloud computing experts, including VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum, say virtualization will become mainly an underpinning to cloud computing. So why aren't VMware and Microsoft making it easier ...