Whenever I think of standards I'm quickly brought back to Burton Group CEO Jamie Lewis's immortal question: If a committee meets in the woods and designs a standard, but no one is there to implement ...

If you are entertaining the idea of cloud computing (and research shows that nearly every IT department is at least thinking about the cloud), then here’s a standard you need to watch, the open ...

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing increases.