title: Virtualization & Cloud Computing - Where to start?
body: <p>Virtualization &amp; Cloud Computing.</p>
  
  <p>I know these are very vague, nebulous words that mean so many different things. They are also the topics that are most discussed today. However, because they are so new, they are not taught in schools. I was lucky to have couple lectures on virtualization technology and read a paper about it. I now want to learn more about these two topics, because I know they are one of "HOT" topics out there, and staying on the "bleeding-edge" side is what I must do as a developer.</p>
  
  <p>Where should I start to learn about virtualization &amp; cloud computing? <br/>
  Anything from articles to academic papers to blogs to books would be great.<br/>
  I would like to learn everything I can from architecture to deployment on cloud<br/>
  Because my lack of knowledge in both areas, I don't know what I should expect.<br/></p>
  
  <p>Please fill me in :)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Collections</strong></p>
  
  <p>Technologies:<br/>
  <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/" rel="noreferrer">Amazon's EC2</a><br/>
  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx" rel="noreferrer">Microsoft Azure</a><br/></p>
  
  <p>Articles/Papers:<br/>
  <a href="http://www-cdn.sun.com/featured-articles/CloudComputing.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Sun's Cloud Computing Article</a><br/>
  <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945462" rel="noreferrer">Xen and Arts of Virtualization</a><br/>
  <a href="http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html" rel="noreferrer">Google's Distributed System Educational Site</a><br/></p>
  
  <p>Video:<br/>
  <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN03/" rel="noreferrer">PDC 2008 Azure Services Platform</a></p>
  
  <p>In the News:<br/>
  <a href="http://virtualization.sys-con.com/latest/articles" rel="noreferrer">Sys-Con Virtualization</a></p>