Author Judith Hurwitz, CEO

 Sponsored by IBM

The cloud in cloud computing provides the  means through which everything from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business processes to personal collaboration can be delivered to the user as a service.

Cloud computing has become one of the most important technical and business trends in decades. Increasingly, companies are turning toward cloud computing as a way of increasing the agility of their computing environment.  Management understands that IT is a business asset that should be able to expand and contract based upon need. They are looking for methods of having the best possible resources at the optimal price without increasing capital expenditures.

The movement toward this increasingly optimized cloud model is part of the movement towards the industrialization of computing. Therefore, cloud computing is helping to transform the way we think about using technology as a business asset and as an agent of change.

Author Robin Bloor

Sponsored by CA

Why and How Virtualization Needs To Be Managed

Virtualization is an excellent technology that was introduced to the IT market at an appropriate time when the majority of applications needed far less than the resources offered by an "off-the shelf" server. Moore's Law had run rampant for decades doubling the capacity and speed of the average server every 18 months. The time finally arrived when there was a major mismatch between the workload that the typical application presented and the resources that the typical low-end server provided. Virtualization technology appeared right on cue when it could be put to excellent use.

Keywords: CA, Virtualization, Cloud