To hear the experts tell it, cloud computing may be the most innovative technology development in decades—and the greatest thing since sliced bread—or should be dismissed as a marketing tool for ...

Cloud computing is a popular technology model in which a provider hosts IT resources and delivers them to users via a network connection. Almost all cloud offerings provide self-service capabilities ...

Cloud computing is undoubtly the promise of having a modern and state-of-the-art IT infrastructure without the need for substantial capital investments and personnel increases. The possibility of ...

How well do you know cloud computing basics? Do you know your IaaS and PaaS? Can you identify the building block technologies of cloud computing? Domain 1 of the CCSP exam, “Architectural Concepts and ...

Recent trends show a return to cloud fundamentals, such as data, development, deployment, and security, rather than chasing what’s new and cool. There seems to be a clear trend in the world of cloud ...

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 ...

Are you too siloed? Are your cloud costs through the roof? Can your staff handle the complexity of your architecture? Ignoring the basics will cost you real money. After two decades of cloud ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will launch its iCloud service in a move to move to bring its iTunes juggernaut into the cloud computing era. The company will clearly have the content lined up, but the ...

Transparency is a much-abused word these days. In government circles, it seems, transparency is both a promise and a dare. The debate over health care, and the political machinations it put on display ...

In this article we go through some basic concepts with the purpose of providing context for the discussions in the chapters that follow. Here, we review briefly the concept of the cloud as defined by ...