Cloud computing provides numerous advantages and disadvantages. The potential for scalability is chief among cloud advantages. However, cloud reliability -- especially amid issues such as cloud ...

With apologies to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this installment of Cloud Talk is about counting the ways you can benefit from moving to the cloud. To help make it easier to count the ways, let ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Over seven years ago, we co-authored a little-noticed article about the “Security Advantages of Cloud Computing.” We said then that “the ...

Data centers are usually extremely underutilized and are often idle about 85 percent of the time. Public or private cloud computing architectures can provide significant advantages for production ...

Is cloud computing better than virtualization? Well, the answer depends on an organization's needs. Each method offers different benefits to its users. For instance, cloud computing is great if your ...

From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business. Cloud computing is a viable option for many businesses. This ever-growing ...

The purpose of information technology is "to provide compute and storage. That's it. full stop. That compute and storage can be provided by mainframes, private data centers, distributed networks, or ...

How to architect a hybrid cloud that combines on-premises and public cloud infrastructures. Definitions of hybrid cloud vary, but here’s what it means to Amazon, Microsoft and Google. A hybrid cloud ...