Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, on Thursday announced two major components of its cloud-computing strategy. "We can see the benefits of the cloud, and the risks," Simon ...

Moving technology services to the cloud has become commonplace over the last few years. But as government agencies weigh the pros and cons of various big-name cloud providers, another option has begun ...

Cloud computing is a key component of modern digital infrastructure and the growing AI supply chain. Companies focused on cloud computing fall into two categories: pure plays with most of their ...

As the federal government increasingly uses cloud computing to improve operations and services, there are several best practices agencies should keep in mind to optimize the cloud and transform ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Microsoft commissioned IDC to do the research project, Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation. "IDC estimates that last year alone, IT cloud services helped organizations of all sizes and all vertical ...

Cisco and BMC Software said today they are expanding their partnership to enable telecommunications companies to offer multi-tenant cloud-computing services. Under the terms of the alliance, BMC and ...

Cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform, and Google App Engine have given many businesses flexible access to computing resources, ...

One of the main cloud computing story lines of 2010 was the contentious cloud competition between two tech top dogs: Google and Microsoft. And it's a kerfuffle that will continue through 2011. The duo ...