“We’ve gone through, shall we say, phases of centralization and decentralization in computing since the 1950s,” says Danny ...

Ask any five IT specialists what cloud computing is, and you’re likely to get five different answers. That’s partly because cloud computing is merely the latest, broadest development in a trend that’s ...

We are bombarded daily with ads about products, white papers, publications, seminars, workshops, market projections and more focused on cloud computing. But if you analyze these messages you reach the ...

What is cloud computing? We recently asked a number of people in our industry, and got back a range of interesting, and sometimes self-referential, responses. According to our respondents, cloud ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

New developments that will leverage a focus on cloud-native technologies, including serverless and containers, will change the level of I/O requirements. Internet egress (i.e., the on-ramps and ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business. Cloud computing is a viable option for many businesses. This ever-growing ...

“It’s in the cloud.” When you hear this phrase, what do you think of? For many, “The Cloud” is a magical place, where storage and computational things just happen. For others, the cloud is simply ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon's $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network, a year after accusations of politicization over the ...