With Dell and ASUS launching dedicated hardware in 58 countries, Microsoft is finally scaling its Cloud PC experiment into a ...

What is cloud computing? We recently asked a number of people in our industry, and got back a range of interesting, and sometimes self-referential, responses. According to our respondents, cloud ...

Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

The 'Cloud PC' push is a trap: Why I refuse to rent my computer ...

Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Editorial Note: We earn a commission from ...

You’ve likely heard the terms “Big Data” and “Cloud Computing” before. If you’re involved with cloud application development, you may even have experience with them. The two go hand-in-hand, with many ...

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first public cloud provider, offered publicly available services such as Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3). Four years later, ...