Analyst firm Gartner has revised the way it defines cloud computing to help prevent organisations from being hoodwinked by providers and to reflect emerging usage of the technology. In an announcement ...

Perhaps one of today’s most high-profile manifestations of a converged infrastructure is the cloud. Cloud computing goes by different definitions, depending on whom you talk to. Those definitions may, ...

Despite snarky comments among industry insiders and imprecise metaphors meant to explain virtualization and cloud computing to the masses, it is patently untrue that the corporate computing world is ...

Kurt Marko is miffed at the manner in which marketers are hijacking cloud to such an extent that the term has become almost meaningless. Time to untangle this mess. (© hin255 - Fotolia.com) One of the ...

The definition of hybrid cloud varies depending on who you ask, but it always involves using both private and public clouds, and you need a strategy. Ask a group of IT leaders to define what a hybrid ...

A few years back, an unmistakable trend emerged that cloud computing was growing in both percentage of organizations adopting cloud solutions as well as the amount and type of data being placed in the ...