A: In simple terms, anyone who is using a program or service that is on the Internet is participating in cloud computing. If I can paraphrase “Cloud Computing for Dummies,” the “cloud” in ...

Yesterday I asked a simple question on twitter. "If your "PaaS" (Platform as a platform) requires the deployment of Virtual machines, is it really PaaS?" The point of my question is the line ...

The post is not intended to provide an detailed look at what Cloud Computing is all about. There is an abundance of information available elsewhere from others more suited to that task.

Cloud computing lets businesses scale, innovate, and offer global services. Netflix's adoption of AWS is one impressive example.

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 ...

Cloud computing is built for the world of tomorrow, where we each use many different kinds of computing devices: desktop, laptop, cellphone, or tablet.

In a Forrester report published in March, Staten defined cloud computing as "a pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting customer applications [that ...

Cloud computing is a hyped-up term, a recent report from Gartner found. But behind the hype there are significant benefits to some technologies in the cloud industry and some of the terms being ...

Is 'cloud computing' the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of 'cloud wash?' Recent statements by Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and software-licensing contrarian Richard Stallman zeroed into ...