Last month I blogged about Red Hat’s move away from Xen to KVM. So many of you probably are asking the same questions I asked: What’s so good about KVM that has Red Hat not only moving away from Xen, but has now announced the intention to acquire Qumranet (the maintainers of KVM)?First off, KVM is implemented as a host operating system extension. This is also known as a host based hypervisor or type 2 ...

A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm’s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so-called myths — namely that a cloud is comprised of a scalable virtualized server environment and that it’s a low-margin business — I was eager to see where we had been led astray. ...

As more and more developers look to put AWS to use in various ways, questions about security practices and policies come to our attention from time to time. We've just published the first version of the AWS Security white paper. The paper provides answers to a number of questions about certifications, physical security, backups, and issues specific to particular services. -- Jeff;

Historically there has been nothing which gets Microsoft's attention as fast as a platform for applications which threatens Windows dominance. Google's Chrome is obviously such a platform; Google can afford to challenge Microsoft; it's healthy for innovation that it does. Can Microsoft still rise to the challenge? Way back when I was at Microsoft – 1991 to 1994, Lotus Notes was the threat du jour. Developers WERE developing Notes apps instead of Windows apps; analysts ...