IBM has defined six types of partners that help move customers to cloud computing, said Dave Mitchell, director of strategy and emerging business for the vendor. These include partners who build ...

Backers have argued that cloud computing is less expensive because it doesn't require the amount of IT infrastructure-- such as servers -- that traditional on-premise computing does. Customers also ...

Eighty-three per cent of organizations gearing up for cloud computing are planning to start with private clouds, according to a recent survey from Platform Computing Corp. Forty-five per cent are ...

For companies that are required to keep data within a specific country or region, a sovereign cloud may be a key part of a multicloud deployment. Cloud-using industries such as banking, insurance, ...

Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...

I attended Interop last week for the first time to participate in its cloud computing track (I spoke on cloud computing total cost of ownership). Several things stood out for me: There was a good ...

Pharmaceutical Firms and Biotech Companies Begin to Take Close Look at Evolving Technology When the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH began its 1,000 Genome Project, it turned ...

Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies ...