Although it’s hard to believe, given how ubiquitous it is today, cloud computing as a practical reality has only been around for the past decade or so. However, at that time, it revolutionized the ...

Now that we’re well into the second decade of cloud computing, it’s time to reexamine the received wisdom that has come to surround this IT deployment model. In early days — when there was basically ...

René Morkos is the founder of ALICE Technologies and is an adjunct professor at Stanford University's construction engineering PhD program. The exponential growth of cloud computing has swiftly ...

From SaaS to NLP, we go beyond the acronyms and look at how cloud computing can be used in real life. Cloud computing has become a common phrase to hear among tech-savvy businesses. Working in the ...

Past perfect? A look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly of cloud computing. In the beginning, organizations always processed data on-premises. Or did they? You may be surprised to learn that ...

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has fundamentally changed the role of database administrators (DBAs). Traditionally, DBAs have been responsible for the installation, ...

The World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) recognizes ten basic cloud types. Ranging from cirrus to nimbostratus to our favorite here in gray and rainy Oregon, plain ol' stratus, these clouds come ...

The history of data processing begins in the 1960s with centralized on-site mainframes that later evolved into distributed client servers. In the beginning of this century, centralized cloud computing ...

Cloud computing has transformed the way businesses and individuals store, manage, and process data. At its core, cloud computing refers to the on-demand availability of computing resources—such as ...