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Byline: David Linthicum I'm always on my best behavior when I review someone else's enterprise cloud solutions. It's bad form to call their baby ugly, and there could be a [...]

Everyone seems to be moving into the cloud. With Web-based applications and online storage services that give us constant access to the most important data from all of our devices, [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Repeat after me: Containers are not 'lightweight VMs.' Nor are they meant to replace VMs. Not now, and not anytime soon, either. That's one of the key [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Over the course of the last couple of years, Apache Spark has enjoyed explosive growth in both usage and mind share. These days, any self-respecting big data [...]

EVERY DAY, YOU probably work with multiple keyboards, touchpads, and button arrays. But getting the various products to talk to one another can be tricky. You could use removable media [...]

A few years ago the only cloud game in town was the public cloud, but today private and hybrid clouds are also true contenders. áIn fact, private cloud implementations address [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler The whole idea of cloud computing is that it's supposed to provide the ability to spin up virtual resources quickly and easily. A new tool from startup [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler Service level agreements in the cloud computing market are skewed in the favor of providers, can be difficult for customers to decipher and in some cases are [...]

Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan A new vendor-sponsored study of the 1,000 biggest websites quantifies how much better third-party managed service providers are doing at operating DNS services across the Internet [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns I never thought I'd see the day when an XML standard was relegated to the trash heap as outdated. But that's exactly what appears to be happening [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin When you use the cloud, you get what you pay for. And if you're expecting diligent support and quick resolution of technical problems, then - to state [...]

It's simple to rent raw compute power on the public cloud. The challenge is to deploy, manage, and take down jobs that are hosted in the cloud. In this groundbreaking [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently published a document about cloud computing titled 'Reaching for the Cloud(s): Privacy Issues related to Cloud Computing.' I [...]

Byline: Network World Staff Everyone is talking about cloud computing, but security issues are stalling widespread adoption. While vendors work to address enterprise concerns (the good), experts warn there's no [...]

Byline: Jim Metzler, Steve Taylor Given the impact that cloud computing is already having, and will continue to have, on the WAN, this is the third in a series of [...]

Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan The biggest tech industry news story of the decade was undoubtedly the dramatic rise of Google. But will the search and online advertising juggernaut continue its [...]

Byline: Denise Dubie Despite the economic recession that started in 2008, many IT service providers didn't see the expected boon to business in 2009. Some outsourcers struggled to a degree [...]

Hype is a marketer's dream and IT's nightmare. While it helps the former generate excitement, it often obscures reality for the latter. Cloud computing is the latest case in point. […]

With cloud computing growing in popularity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass that option and head into the cloud? First, […]

Almost every child has looked at a cloud and said, "That cloud looks like a _____." The filled-in blank often becomes the point of highly subjective argument. In much the […]

Everything You Need to Know about iPods, iTunes, and Mac-based Entertainment For as long as there have been rumors about a music-in-the-cloud service from Apple, I've been dreaming about what [...]

THE TERM cloud computing refers to free or subscription-based services delivered in real time over the Internet. It may involve software as a service, such as Salesforce.com; file storage, synchronization, [...]

GOOGlE CALENDAR IS the single best cloud service you're not using. It has been around for years, but I know plenty of people who still don't see the point of [...]

MANY ORGANIZATIONS are considering shutting down their data centers and migrating most IT functions to the cloud. Beware, though: Not all clouds are soft and fluffy. Before committing to a [...]

Getting to and from the cloud is also risky. Internet service providers have more outages than cloud providers. If a company's network switches do not have flow control, or a […]