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, ...

As with nearly every IT trend, including service-oriented architectures and Web services, just because we’re all talking about cloud computing doesn’t mean we’re talking about the same thing. I ...

Whether you prefer the term “utility computing” or “the cloud,” the industry is headed in that direction, however slowly, and the transition will have a multifaceted impact on IT in some ways ...

Where does the cloud go from here? For many companies, that's a multi-billion-dollar question. One set of answers comes from tech analyst Gartner's latest papers, The Future of Cloud in 2029: The ...