It’s obvious VMware and virtualization are playing a huge role in cloud computing from the perspective of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). VMware’s lead Cloud Architect, Mike Dipetrillo, was gracious enough to provid some great insight into VMware’s strategy.

Why should you care about how you lay your storage out? Maybe because it’s your job or because it’s the right thing to do. Perhaps it’s because your application performance isn’t acceptable or your boss won’t let you buy shelves full of 15K RPM disks anymore. It’s not uncommon for pure frustration to stream out […]

We think of web apps as what belongs in the “cloud”. Virtualization is changing this so that both small and enterprise apps are a fit. To me there can be an internal cloud and an external cloud. As virtualization continues to evolve, we will see the lines blur between both.