The International Standards Organization (ISO) has released two new standards for cloud computing in an attempt to put some order around the loose terminology in cloud computing. If you think you’ve ...

Define cloud computing. Go ahead. Do it. Now turn to the person next to you. Ask them to define it. That definition is a lot different than yours, isn’t it? One problem solution providers face as they ...

As with nearly every IT trend, including service-oriented architectures and Web services, just because we’re all talking about cloud computing doesn’t mean we’re talking about the same thing. I ...

Cloud computing offers benefits to enterprises that have a practical understanding of its risks and how to manage those risks. Cloud computing cannot solve every information and communications ...

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

In our last newsletter we pointed out how some industry purists believe that the phrase private cloud computing is an oxymoron – that cloud computing by definition implies the use of services provided ...

The term “cloud computing” is still confusing for IT professionals, an August 2009 survey by Proofpoint (News - Alert) Inc. and Osterman Research reveals. Proofpoint provides solutions for email ...

Modern cloud is all about how easy it is to buy, provision, manage & run at a level where shared services effeciencies can be achieved. Cloud is modern. It almost sounds ridiculous to say it and we’ve ...

Cloud computing is all the rage these days, but confusion abounds over how best to secure it. Here, six IT security practitioners share their ideas on the key components of a cloud defense (part of an ...

There are many terms thrown around cloud computing, such as cloud-based, cloud-first, cloud-agnostic, and most recently cloud-native. Unfortunately, different companies are using the terms differently ...

What does running software in the network mean exactly? This is one of the questions that users are exploring as they start to increasingly poke at what "cloud computing" means for them. On the one ...