Could the stretched-out replacement cycles for desktop machines be a boon for client computing? In a recent Wall Street Journal Business Technology blog post, Ben Worthen noted that a survey from our ...

I was looking through the program for an upcoming cloud computing conference and noted a number of sessions devoted to negotiating contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with cloud providers.

I’m in Korea this week to keynote at the IDG “Virtualization in Action” conference, and I observed a fascinating disconnect while here. First, and this should be no surprise, the conference could just ...

This weekend saw the publication by Joe Weinman, coiner of the term "Cloudonomics," of a blog post called "Lazy, Hazy, Crazy: The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics". Joe has published a great deal ...

With a tag line of “Virtual Roads. Actual Clouds,” it’s easy to understand that this year’s US VMworld was wall-to-wall cloud computing. Nevertheless, it was striking how cloud-centric the expo floor ...