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 ...

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 ...

Analyst firm Gartner has revised the way it defines cloud computing to help prevent organisations from being hoodwinked by providers and to reflect emerging usage of the technology. In an announcement ...

Debates about private cloud computing stem from differences in cloud definitions rather than the reality of what is being implemented in the enterprise. James Urquhart is a field technologist with ...

Hybrid cloud seems to be the flavour of the day, but most people fail to realise that it is really all about integration, says Lori MacVittie. Some people continue to spout about the inexorable ...

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 ...

Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

The NIST definition hasn’t changed noticeably since its early definitions of cloud computing, which, according to NIST, cloud computing must consist of the following elements: on-demand self-service, ...

Unfortunately, some of the most interesting conversation and debate at conferences like Interop New York, where I was all last week, take place away from the formal venue and instead play out in the ...

While often used broadly, the term cloud computing is defined as an abstraction of compute, storage, and network infrastructure assembled as a platform on which applications and systems are deployed ...