First, decide how you are going to use the cloud. Depending on your organization’s needs, you have to decide what service or services will help you reduce costs and increase efficiency and ...

From security concerns and challenging migrations to hidden costs and compliance, cloud deployments are fraught with pitfalls. IT analyst Bill Claybrook shares his advice for vetting cloud vendors.

The cloud computing and SaaS markets are booming. Forrester Research has estimated that come 2020, the cloud computing market will be a $241 billion behemoth. While a host of cloud vendors have ...

In recent months, the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees, which are a tax of sorts that the cloud companies charge customers to move their data to ...

The ever-expanding cloud has become ubiquitous. No longer is the cloud some remote set of services, somewhere up in the sky. Rather, the cloud is seeping into every industry, hybrid on-premises models ...

The concept of public cloud hit the market in 2006 with Amazon’s launch of its EC2 service. Before this launch, you had to go to an outsourcer if you wanted compute capability not hosted in your data ...

Remotely accessible cloud storage isn’t appropriate for all data types, but it is poised to attract a large amount of IT spending over the next few years. Remotely accessible cloud storage isn’t ...

Healthcare IT vendors are making rapid progress using or migrating legacy technologies to the cloud, but they mention cost most frequently as a challenge, citing storage-retrieval and egress fees, ...

The cost benefits that cloud computing offers to its users is something that has been discussed ad nauseam. In a study conducted by researchers from UC Berkeley and INRIA, France showed that cloud ...

In a few short years "the cloud" has gone from industry buzzword to a term thrown around in everyday conversation. While cloud computing may not be understood by the majority of laymen, it's certainly ...

By blending on-premises infrastructure with cloud capabilities, K–12 IT leaders can optimize performance, control expenses ...