I enjoyed James Urquhart’s post, “In cloud computing, data is not electricity,” which points out some of the sillier analogies we’re seeing in the emerging cloud computing space. Specifically, ...

Define cloud computing. Go ahead. Do it. Now turn to the person next to you. Ask them to define it. That definition is a lot different than yours, isn’t it? One problem solution providers face as they ...

Cloud computing explained in simple terms shows how everyday apps and serious business systems now run through the internet instead of local machines. Instead of buying and maintaining expensive ...

Hardware and software services from a provider on the Internet (the "cloud"). Cloud providers replace in-house operations for general data processing and AI processing tasks. The service is ...

As the administration looks to finalize an updated governmentwide cloud computing strategy, public input has honed in on what seems like the most basic of questions: How should “cloud” be defined? The ...

After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST ...

So many vendors have jumped on the cloud computing bandwagon, the phrase already risks jumping the shark. The problem is that “cloud computing” has two distinctly different meanings: The use of ...