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Windows Azure took center stage at PDC last week during the keynote. The cloud computing space is now really heating up with competing platform plays from Google's AppEngine and Amazon's recent EC2 announcements. In some sense this is perhaps the re-birth of Windows as a platform that enables developers and the ecosystem to build on a whole new set of capabilities and scale for the Software+Services world, in much the same way as Windows fueled the desktop software industry in the past "era".read more

Services have a lot of potential for providing value to the enterprise, but their use also brings a level of risk. Some of these risks are financial, while others are operational. Fortunately, all of this risk can be satisfactorily mitigated through appropriate governance activities. Simply put, governance is the process of risk management. Without proper governance, services may be built that are missing the basic functionality required, that only satisfy one use (a waste of the cost and resources involved in creating a service), or that require costly modifications to be reused.read more

"Virtualization is a word often mentioned these days," observes the charismatic Chairman & CEO of Parallels, Serguei Beloussov, before adding: "Though largely users are only just starting to understand the range of applications for the technology." Beloussov will be giving a much-anticipated session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo later this month in San Jose, California, in which he will set out his vision - drawing on his 15 years of successfully building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia - of exactly where virtualization is headed.read more