Cloud Computing seems to be all the rage. Press coverage is all over the place, and the consensus on the part of quite a few people is that IT organizations will be outsourcing portions or all of their IT to one or more cloud vendors. Virtualization seems to be joined at the hip with Cloud Computing. It appears that virtualization is one of the key enabling technologies of cloud computing — providing cloud vendors with the agility and fault tolerance that makes them credible candidates as a provider of IT services.
Cloud Computing, Virtualization, and VMware
September 24, 2008