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.

Whether you’re a business owner or system administrator, you’ve probably been approached about “cloud computing,” an umbrella term encompassing many different platforms and a major source ...

IaaS runs virtual machines (VMs) with an exposed operating system and a clear delineation between virtual instances. The most popular implementation of IaaS is the Amazon EC2 elastic compute cloud, ...

Cloud computing is here. The vision of flexible, self service IT infrastructure is now within our reach. The term of cloud computing may be a new term, but the concept has been around for a long time.

You can explain cloud computing to the CFO in terms he'll get, like "pay as you drink". But beware: What the CFO may like best about cloud is the ability to grab power back from IT.

I came across an interesting post, Is Virtualization the Same as Cloud Computing?, published by Rajan Chandras. He, in turn, was commenting on an article that equated cloud computing and ...

So when people refer to cloud computing, what they are really talking about is the ability to simplify IT by abstracting the complexity of the data center from a bunch of individually managed ...

In this video from the Forum on Cloud Computing and Virtualization for HPC, Christian Bolliger from ETH Zurich presents: EULER – Different Levels of Virtualization on an HPC-Cluster.. As the cloud ...

To explain such different perceptions about the security impact of virtualization and cloud computing, Matthew Steele, Symantec director of strategic technology, said the best way to understand ...