Cloud computing is clearly the latest hot topic for the IT industry. In fact, it’s hard to find a vendor or service provider that isn’t making highly positive claims about the business benefits of ‘the cloud.’  What’s all the hype about? Without a doubt, there are...

Trends in cloud computing indicate software may cease to become the tangible product we are used to buying in stores or through online shopping. Companies and individual users can access software that resides on their servers in the “cloud” or the “grid,” enabling...

1. Get smart Before making a move into the cloud, get educated on the principles and definitions of cloud computing, advises Johan Goossens, head of NATO's Allied Command Transformation's (ACT) Technology & Human Factors Branch in Norfolk, Va. "We started in the...

One of the most crucial steps an organization can take when choosing a cloud provider is setting up a reliable service level agreement that protects your data as it resides in the cloud. The answers a prospective provider gives to five key questions can tell you a lot...

IBM’s new strategy will give government authorities a chance to utilize IBM cloud services, which will be sold for a monthly subscription fee. It will be useful to the government authorities because the usage of public cloud services is one of the UN’s imaginary works...