Virtualization Review

A New Name for a New Time: Introducing Virtualization & Cloud Review

Regular readers of Virtualization Review will notice something different about the site today. Namely (see what I did there?) that we have a new name: henceforth, we are Virtualization & Cloud Review. Rolls trippingly off the tongue, doesn’t it?

I’m excited about the new name, despite the length. It’s a long time coming, but is a necessary tweak. We needed an updated moniker to reflect our evolving coverage. We still cover virtualization, of course; all aspects of it, as always. But the role of virtualization has changed dramatically over the years, and we needed to address those changes.

When I was the founding editor of Virtualization Review, way back in March of 2008 (has it really been nine years?), virtualization was the new kid on the datacenter block. It had an air of mystery about it; most IT folks then couldn’t have told you what a hypervisor was, what it did, or why it was important.

Now hop in the DeLorean and fly back to the present. Hypervisors are deeply embedded in datacenters, and are mostly a “set it and forget it” technology. Virtualization, though, has grown by leaps and bounds, into most areas of IT-related infrastructure.

Today, virtualization is still at the forefront, but in a different capacity: it enables most of the cloud to work. Through technologies …