Wall Street Journal: Cloud Computing, Virtualization Still Strong After IT Decline

While covering Gartner Symposium, Roger Cheng of Dow Jones News discusses how companies have chosen to invest in virtualization and cloud computing technologies as a way to save money.

10/21/2009 » Roger Cheng » Cheng quotes Gartner analysts, Peter Sondergaard and Thomas Bittman, on the analyst firm’s predictions around these technologies. Citrix CIO Paul Martine is quoted in the article saying the IT “budget squeeze” has forced companies to dive deeper into virtualization technologies and states the next step “is virtualized desktops, where the local PC is powered by a data center at a central location.”

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