Providers make a big deal how the cloud can scale up and down as you need it, but most enterprises already have that capacity in-house -- and are looking for something else instead I got a kick out of ...

Cloud providers love to talk about how elastic the cloud is. But what does that really mean? In truth, less than you might think. Elasticity is really about load balancing, or moving processes among ...

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Workers transitioning from being in an office to working from home is causing many companies to take a hard look at the digital tools they use. The current climate of having workers transitioning from ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. This article is more than 10 years old. The typical virtual ...

Public. Private. Hybrid. Cloudburst. Much of the discussion about cloud computing focuses on deployment options and choices, with a surprisingly large number of enterprises inclining toward internal ...

As someone who has been covering cloud computing since the dawn of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I’m constantly in education mode about what is and isn’t cloud computing. To borrow an analogy ...