Cloud Computing

Why a Media Giant Sold Its Data Center and Headed to the Cloud

Condu00e9 Nast's CTO says the media company is no longer in the business of maintaining a data center. It has gone 'all-in' on the cloud with Amazon Web Services.

How Cloud Vendors Can Win Over Skeptical Federal Buyers

The federal government has been making a lot of noise about moving its IT operations to the cloud. At the ground level, though, significant concerns around security and portability remain obstacles for would-be cloud service providers.

Government Cloud Use Requires a Culture Shift

If government CIOs are the only voice in their agency championing the shift to cloud computing, it can be a lonely fight. That's why leaders say they need support from the upper echelons of their agencies as well as the business units.

IBM to Invest $3 Billion in Chips for Cloud, Big Data Systems

To address the physical limitations of silicon transistors, IBM is investing heavily in research of new chip architectures and materials to power new generations of cloud, big data and cognitive systems.

Box Helps Creative Pros ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’

Box isnu2019t just about file sharing anymore. Advertising and marketing professionals are using the platform to collaborate in real-time, making their workflow faster and more productive.

Why That Zero-feature Cloud Software Release Doesn’t Cost Zero Dollars

There's no such thing as a free lunch, and there's no such thing as a free cloud software release. Even if an update doesn't offer any new features, and even if there are no changes to the code, configurations will change. Guess who ha

Microsoft Promises Frequent Office 365 Roadmap Updates

The Real Cloud Computing Revolution

Cloud Platform Simplifies Spark Clusters, Big Data Deployments

As part of his keynote at Spark Summit 2014, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica announced Databricks Cloud, a turnkey platform for in-memory cluster computing that promises huge performance improvements over Hadoop MapReduce for processing big data.

Amazon Web Services Sharpens Focus on Public Sector

Hardly content to rest on its laurels, Amazon is adding clients in the government, education and nonprofit sectors, vying for public-sector contracts and looking to build its apps marketplace into a research and development hub.