We believe that vulnerability, resistance, and 'resilience' are all shaped with the help of diligence, proactive ability to put the right blend of resources available. What if we have the technology know how and the resources to make this happen in the real time as well. Then, the question arise who has the onus in a cloud context - technology companies or the cloud providers or the cloud community or may be all to some extent. Let's find out how technology and new era concepts are evolving - creating cloud technology environment, cloud community's gift through open source platforms, and the ability of the technology companies to make an effective blend of technology that can really make a difference in our lives. Creating the right cloud delivery strategy is critical to reducing our organization’s risks and building its future. Most of the IT organizations want to start small, to build a pilot or proof of concept for the cloud, and expand from there. No harm i...

Virtualization is not new. IBM first introduced virtual machine technology for mainframe computers in the early 1960s. Microsoft Windows NT included a virtual DOS machine. Virtual PC was introduced by Connectix in 1997 (Microsoft acquired Connectix in 2003). EMC’s VMware introduced its first product, VMware Workstation, in 1999. Softricity introduced SoftGrid, the first application virtualization product, in 2001 (Microsoft acquired Softricity in 2006). Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. The server administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as partitions, guests, instances, containers or emulations. There are different types of virtualization. Machine virtualization uses softwar...