One of the key benefits of the cloud is its flexible, or “elastic”, nature. Organisations can increase compute resources and storage capacity when they need it with little more than a web browser and ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Cloud bursting is an application deployment model that allows an organization to run applications in a private cloud or data center and "burst" into a public cloud when the demand for computing ...

For firms that want to optimise application delivery – especially during demand spikes – cloud bursting is an attractive option. Cloud bursting allows organisations to call on the elastic, ...

There is certainly no doubt that cloud computing is real today and that it brings significant benefits to a wide array of IT organizations. There is also no doubt that a lot of what gets written about ...

As part of its ongoing enterprise cloud services push, Oracle today rolled out a slew of updates to its suite of cloud applications for business customers. The new release updates Oracle’s supply ...

Researchers at SDSC and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center have successfully completed a second computational experiment using thousands of GPUs across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft ...

At its Dreamforce 2008 conference this week in San Francisco, Salesforce.com is really sledgehammering home the point that cloud computing is the future, perhaps stretching the whole 'cloud' analogy ...

Modern digital infrastructures, where companies run business-critical operations, are possible thanks to cloud computing. There are different types of cloud computing. They might be private or public, ...