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 ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

This excerpt is from ‘The Economics of Cloud Computing: An Overview For Decision Makers,’ by Bill Williams. Coming in July from Cisco Press (ISBN: 1587143062). Broad network access On-demand ...

Cloud computing has become a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure by enabling on‐demand access to scalable computing resources. Efficient resource management—encompassing virtual machine allocation ...

The Cloud: Many people have heard of it, some people are using it for 100% of their business, but for the most part, many people don’t understand what it is. Most people think of The Cloud as a ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...