Most people have a more automated personal life than they do work life. But with the advent of cloud solutions, there is now an opportunity to improve the user experience and gain operational insight ...

Apply a few basic hardening principles to secure your cloud environment. I've written about simple server-hardening techniques in the past. Those articles were inspired in part by the Linux Hardening ...

Microsoft is taking another step towards cloud interoperability with today's launch of the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project. The Simple Cloud API gives PHP developers a set of ...

The cloud is a big place, and it’s getting bigger as everyone moves more and more computation out of their server rooms into the large datacenters. Amazon is the dominant force in the cloud, but it is ...

Zend, Microsoft, and IBM lead the open source cloud portability effort, which seeks to eliminate vendor lock-in by helping developers create apps that can access all major cloud platforms Nirvana in ...

Thanks to cloud storage, files are bursting from the confines of your PC’s hard drive. Now, you can get work done on a laptop, tablet, smartphone, or even portable mini-PCs and dongles. Still, many ...

Google LLC has acquired CloudSimple Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based startup with a software platform that makes it easier for companies to move their on-premises applications to the cloud. The ...

The cloud is now a business-as-normal resource. Its rise to ascendancy has been rapid. What started just over ten years ago as a theoretical way of providing IT solutions on-demand is now a practical ...

One of the bigger debates in the IT world the previous five years had been about whether to go public or private cloud. For the most part, the majority in the tech world believe that it is a "hybrid" ...