One of initiatives in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNFC) Charter is to provide "Well-defined APIs at borders of standardized subsystems," and establish a standard systems architecture ...

Today, Sun Microsystems has expanded its cloud computing offering with the announced acquisition of Q-layer, a Belgium-based startup company with less than 30 people. As seems typical, the deal was ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

Virtualization in cloud computing can reduce the resources and costs involved in running operating systems, making it easier to test applications in multiple environments. As more organizations adopt ...

What Is the Difference between Cloud Computing and Virtualization? Your email has been sent Understanding the distinctions is essential for companies looking to modernize and maximize resources. Cloud ...