Several years ago, if you wished to store and manage data, your primary option would be to do so on your local computer or via a local server. However, cloud computing changed all of that. Over the ...

I enjoyed James Urquhart’s post, “In cloud computing, data is not electricity,” which points out some of the sillier analogies we’re seeing in the emerging cloud computing space. Specifically, ...

What is cloud computing? We recently asked a number of people in our industry, and got back a range of interesting, and sometimes self-referential, responses. According to our respondents, cloud ...

Cloud computing has become as indispensable to the data ecosystem as it has to consumers’ lives. Its collaboration capabilities (eminently evinced in telemedicine, online banking, and e-commerce) ...