Virtualization is the backbone of modern cloud computing, allowing multiple virtual systems to run on a single physical ...

When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn’t take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story ...

Ever feel that cloud computing sounds like a pile of acronyms, hidden fees and choices you are somehow meant to understand straight away? Many readers worry about cost, security and where their data ...

After months of prep, Novell on Monday officially made available Cloud Manager, its cloud computing creation and management tool, a product the Waltham, Mass.-based company said will help cloud ...

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Group users by their job function (like ‘developer’ or ‘finance’) and assign permissions to ...

Cloud infrastructure may not sound sexy on the surface, but peel the onion a little bit and realize the ease and the cost savings of deploying, using and monitoring and managing apps in the cloud and ...

If you’ve been happily using iCloud or Google Drive for cloud storage, you probably haven’t been too concerned about exactly what type of cloud data management you’re using. But when you start to ...

In our last newsletter we pointed out how some industry purists believe that the phrase private cloud computing is an oxymoron – that cloud computing by definition implies the use of services provided ...

One of the biggest decisions IT managers have to make is how and where to run data center applications. Fortunately, there are multiple choices that lower costs and increase business agility, ...

The new service is intended to allow customers to create logically isolated sets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and connect them to their existing networks. James Urquhart is a field ...

The National Institute for Standards in Technology has a definition of what cloud computing is that’s fairly agreed upon within the industry. But research firm Gartner says there’s still a lot of ...