Cloud Computing

How Cloud Computing Changes Enterprise IT Economics

The rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services. The sooner IT leaders come to terms with this, the better.

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10 Cloud Storage and Backup Services for Your Small Business

The cloud is an increasingly viable (and inexpensive) storage and backup option for small businesses. Here are 10 services worth a look--and, possibility, your data.

Amazon Web Services Will Continue to Disrupt Enterprises, IT Vendors

Traditional IT vendors may deride Amazon as a mere bookseller, but Amazon Web Service is growing quickly, not to mention inexpensively. If those vendors aren't careful, AWS will soon compete against them in the enterprise cloud computing market-

Could Privacy Protection Bills Hinder Law Enforcement?

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform bill advances to the Senate floor to better protect email privacy. Meanwhile a House subcommittee considers privacy protections for location data, data which some in law enforcement say is necessary to

Box Takes Electronic Health Records to the Cloud

Healthcare providers were among the first industries to use tablets and other mobile devices, but leveraging them fully has been difficult due to regulations that protect electronic health records and other personal health information. But enterprise

How to Avoid Legal Hassles When Switching Cloud Vendors

Negotiate initial cloud computing contracts to address data ownership and pricing, or you risk delaying the migration when you want to change providers.

How OpenStack Should Prepare Itself for the Enterprise

With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing

Red Hat Advances Enterprise OpenStack Distro to Early Adopter Program

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterp

Clearing Up Microsoft SkyDrive Pro Confusion

Microsoft SkyDrive Pro gives storage space to individual users in an organization with SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise. It's conceptually similar to, but not the same as, the free consumer SkyDrive cloud storage service. Here's what else