I came across an interesting post, Is Virtualization the Same as Cloud Computing?, published by Rajan Chandras.

Cloud computing could not have happened without virtualization as the complexities of trying to expose a traditional data center as an online service are too complex to have ever been reliable.

In my first article I introduced the concept of the virtualization journey. Next, I drilled into the main characteristics of cloud computing. Now I’d like to link them together and illustrate ...

Virtualization is the key to cloud computing, since it is the enabling technology allowing the creation of an intelligent abstraction layer which hides the complexity of underlying hardware or ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business.

There are a million articles and blog posts out there about virtualization and cloud computing and their respective benefits, but here’s the reason you should read this one: to find out why ...

Get used to virtualization: The foundation of cloud computing is virtualization. Cloud computing is completely different to the superficially similar external hosting, aka ASP — a trend that ...

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 ...

Is moving to virtualization and cloud computing making network security easier or harder? When some 2,100 top IT and security managers in 27 countries were asked, the response revealed a profound ...

Enterprise IT executives must recognize that data center virtualization is really a special case of cloud computing -- meaning, one in which all the resources are in the same data center, Nolle adds.