The growth of the cloud computing industry is being held back by a lack of standardisation in the technologies that underpin cloud services, warned the head of the web standards body W3C said on ...

Today I'm spending time in New York City attending the inaugural Cloud Business Summit. Produced by Saugatuck Technology, for me the event has really crystallized how fast the overall IT industry is ...

If I had to summarize my assessment of this week’s CloudConnect conference, it would be this: Attention regarding cloud computing is rapidly moving toward the pragmatics of using it and away from the ...

(This is part 3 of the series entitled "Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal Agencies". This series provides the content of a whitepaper I recently authored. A copy of the complete ...

If cloud services were layered architecturally, providers would be able to better contain the effects of failure on the critical services The recent Amazon Web Services outage reminded us once again ...

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Cloud migration will look different from one university to the next, but two experts offer a peek at what institutions can expect when making the switch. Meg was an editor for the CDW family of ...

One of the reasons virtualization (the precursor to cloud computing) gained popularity in the early 2000s is that companies had too many servers running at low utilization. The prevailing wisdom was ...

While many companies are considering moving applications to the cloud, the security of the third-party services still leaves much to be desired, security experts warned attendees at last week’s Black ...

As organisations increasingly migrate to the cloud, securing sensitive data has never been more critical. While cloud computing offers flexibility and scalability, it also opens the door to a range of ...