Jason Cowie

For almost a decade now, organizations of all sizes have been leveraging server virtualization, but few have fully gained the flexibility and efficiencies it promised. The emergence of cloud computing and the promise of delivering on-demand resources has introduced new challenges and opportunities. A company's level of virtualization adoption maturity correlates to its readiness to deliver an on-demand, real-time infrastructure through a private cloud. An effective virtualization and cloud management solution can ease the journey toward that end. Virtualization Evolution Stage One: Acclimation Virtualization evolution stages categorize an organization's readiness to move to the private cloud. The natural path of virtualization evolution moves from the tactical use of virtualization all the way to the optimized use of private cloud services within the enterprise. Th... (more)

IT Resolutions Revolve Around the Cloud

We won't be that far into 2012 before most people's New Year's resolutions start to fall apart. That new running routine sounded great on January 1, but the reality is that getting up early to jog in the cold, dark dawn is no fun. And that diet? It's easy to maintain until doughnuts start showing up in the staff lunchroom or "happy hour" is reintroduced to build morale. For IT, though, the resolutions for 2012 cannot be so easily abandoned. In the coming year, many chief information officers have resolved to bring the private cloud to their enterprises. Their success, which will ... (more)