René Morkos is the founder of ALICE Technologies and is an adjunct professor at Stanford University's construction engineering PhD program. The exponential growth of cloud computing has swiftly ...

The Treasury Department issued a report regarding the benefits and challenges associated with the use of cloud service providers (CSPs) by financial sector firms, finding shortcomings related to ...

NIST recently published a report that garnered little attention, but it's a must-read document for people in business and law enforcement. As the digital landscape evolves, so does the difficulty of ...

At last week’s North American Financial Information Summit, we heard vastly differing opinions on the potential opportunities and drawbacks of cloud computing. And interestingly, whereas regulators ...

Past perfect? A look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of cloud computing. In the beginning, organizations always processed data on-premises. Or did they? You may be surprised to learn that ...

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Cloud computing works by delivering computing resources, like servers, storage, databases and software, over the internet instead of through on-site hardware. These resources live in data centers ...

The cloud has been around in one form or another for about 20 years now. Although cloud looks much different than it did back in the days that were dominated by software as a service, the rise of ...

The World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) recognizes ten basic cloud types. Ranging from cirrus to nimbostratus to our favorite here in gray and rainy Oregon, plain ol' stratus, these clouds come ...