Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry. But everyone isn't on the same page. Surgient's Dave Malclom takes a look at the five defining characteristics of cloud computing.

The issue of success or failure in moving your company data, IT storage, servers or software to the cloud is often driven by technical issues, including performance, bandwidth, security and total ...

When It Comes to Cloud Computing, Most Companies Aren’t Trying. As Leong notes, many IT organizations fail to understand the key characteristics of cloud computing and, as a result, fall far ...

For a start, cloud computing is not a technology but a model of provision and marketing IT services that meet certain characteristics. Cloud is all about computer services, not products: * The ...

The report also argues that cloud computing infrastructure providers can't yet match the uptime of in-house data centers. Anecdotally, the report points to a number of highly visible EC2 outages ...

CIO.com's Bernard Golden says a new UC Berkeley report has some sage advice for IT groups regarding cloud computing, but that it also underestimates some challenges.

A definition for cloud computing, despite it having been with us for many years (some say back to the 1960s), seems to be fairly elusive. The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology ...

In my first article I introduced the concept of the virtualization journey.Next, I drilled into the main characteristics of cloud computing.Now I’d like to link them together and illustrate how ...

>See also: How to approach cloud computing and cyber security in 2017 When you go onto Hotmail to check your emails or log onto your bank account to check your balance – it’s all down to the cloud.