Cloud computing explained in simple terms shows how everyday apps and serious business systems now run through the internet instead of local machines. Instead of buying and maintaining expensive ...

The concept of computing as a utility is hardly new and traces its fundamental roots back to time-shared mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s accessed through dial-up telephone networks. But it wasn't ...

I enjoyed James Urquhart’s post, “In cloud computing, data is not electricity,” which points out some of the sillier analogies we’re seeing in the emerging cloud computing space. Specifically, ...