A recent draft of a government standard definition of cloud computing from the NIST is surprisingly workable. Could it be that the feds beat the commercial sector to the punch on this one? James ...

In a keynote presentation Monday at the Cloud Channel Summit in Mountain View, Calif., Amy Anderson, IBM Cloud Computing Partner Program manager, took the cloud definition-bending one step further and ...

After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST ...

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 ...

Hardware and software services from a provider on the Internet (the "cloud"). Cloud providers replace in-house operations and are invaluable for companies, no matter their size or type of applications ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Almost everybody engages in "cloud computing," but a recent survey revealed that most people ...