It’s easy to go over your cloud budget if you’re not careful. With so many factors that can affect pricing, it’s important to have a strong strategy in place to keep your expenses under control. With the right mix of smart planning, tools, and a little creative thinking, you can cut costs and still get top-notch cloud performance.

Virtualization is difficult to understand. The technology itself is complex, and the industry is dominated by vendors that the average business owner has never heard of. Almost everyone knows Microsoft though, and its virtualization platform just got a big speed boost that won’t cost users a thing -- if they know how to take advantage of it.

Citrix is one of the biggest names in the virtualization sector. It currently services over 330,000 organizations, and by teaming up with Microsoft to expand its cloud-based software delivery, the company hopes to give that number a boost. While the news of this partnership does mean winding down one popular software as a service, a newer -- and hopefully better -- one is on its way.