Cloud Computing

A growing number of businesses nowadays is beginning to understand that if they want to strive in the modern business landscape, they must change to meet the demands of the new generations entering the workforce. Namely, workers belonging to...

Most businesses still rely on their legacy on-site business phone systems for all of their communications, using a PBX (public branch exchange). There is nothing inherently wrong with these systems, except that they were designed to be used by...

A lot has been written or spoken about in regards to cloud computing market and its growth over the last few years. The subject has become an enigma and can be seen to perplex even those most technically minded...

IBM Q4 2012 earnings report is now globally available. The company has reported a GAAP net income of $5.8 billion for Q4 2012, up 6% from the same quarter of the previous year. On the other side, its Non-GAAP...

As the technology is heading towards supremacy, users are demanding ultimate performance from their resources. Therefore, cloud computing is emerging as the best answer by satisfying accessibility, investment and cross-platform integration channels. Education sector is no exception of this...

Still many companies around the world are believing that they should retain 'important data' in their own premises. If you have your own data center then what's the need to go into cloud. However, there are no any hard...

Google Inc. has ramped up its commitment to cloud computing with the announcement that it is working on a new range of Chrome books - which will use the firm's cloud-based Chrome OS. The personal computer will run on Google's Chrome operating system, which is cloud-enabled. The news source reports that the system will allow users to access popular virtual applications, including Google Docs and Google Business Apps.

The harmony over cloud computing has been vetted by many industry experts and undoubtedly, it has changed the ecosystem of computing in last one decade. Robust connectivity and accessibility of data has given major push among people to leverage...

Recently, Amazon’s cloud computing services suffered serious disruptions. Large websites such as Foursquare and Reddit became unavailable due to the disruption of Amazon Web Services. Amazon released their official response in “message 65648“. It seems that the root cause of the outage was failure of some Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes within a single Availability Zone in their US East Region. Last week Amazon notified, by email, all affected customers and indicated a 10 day credit equal to 100% of the usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 and RDS instances within the affected Availability Zone.

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, has announced the launch of its new Cloud Computing Initiative. Designed to serve as the catalyst for innovation in the cloud computing arena, it is the first broad-scope, forward-looking cloud computing initiative to be put forth by a global standards development organization (SDO).