Backers have argued that cloud computing is less expensive because it doesn't require the amount of IT infrastructure-- such as servers -- that traditional on-premise computing does. Customers also ...

I spoke at the Cloud Computing Summit held in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., yesterday at a panel titled “Extending IT to the Cloud” with the new CTO of the federal cloud, Patrick ...

Such were the roots of cloud computing as we have come to know it. In that sense, cloud is a trip back to the future... For example, no one talks about minicomputers anymore, even though for the ...

Eighty-three per cent of organizations gearing up for cloud computing are planning to start with private clouds, according to a recent survey from Platform Computing Corp. Forty-five per cent are ...

If you’ve been happily using iCloud or Google Drive for cloud storage, you probably haven’t been too concerned about exactly what type of cloud data management you’re using. But when you start to ...

Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...

For companies that are required to keep data within a specific country or region, a sovereign cloud may be a key part of a multicloud deployment. Cloud-using industries such as banking, insurance, ...

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...