The management of IT assets and services determines the results in a business. To enable a smooth and gainful operation every process and application has to be optimized. You can think of achieving better goals only when your IT system is in the perfect working condition. If your IT management is complicated, time-consuming and expensive you will have to struggle to move onto the next level. And that is not a very good sign in a competitive world where every player is testing his limits to t...

Cloud computing grew out of the concept of utility computing. It was believed that computing resources and hardware would become a commodity to the point that companies would purchase them from a central pool and pay only for the amount of CPU cycles, RAM, storage and bandwidth that they used, much like the way you buy electricity from the electric company. This is how it became known as utility computing. The fundamental concept of cloud computing is that the processing (and the related data...