This document presents the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (RA) and Taxonomy (Tax) that will accurately communicate the components and offerings of cloud computing. The guiding principles ...

A tutorial on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking reference model plus tips on how to memorize the seven layers. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Cloud computing eliminates the need of having your own data center, as you can just share with other businesses. This model reduces cost because you don’t need servers, storage or a technical ...

You can explain cloud computing to the CFO in terms he'll get, like "pay as you drink". But beware: What the CFO may like best about cloud is the ability to grab power back from IT.

Cloud computing is more an a la carte menu of approaches than technologies to purchase. If you're confused about how, say, hybrid cloud differs from SaaS, check out this explanation of today's top ...

NIST plans to issue the final U.S. Government Cloud Computing Roadmap as a three-volume work. The first two volumes were posted for public comment on Nov. 1, 2011. The draft publication defines ...

As this year comes to an end, I’ve taken time-out to explain a couple of tech terms that have been really popular this year in business computing. I’m starting here with cloud computing.

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing services such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics. Rather than keeping files on a proprietary hard drive or ...

1. Internal Clouds. In what’s turning out to be the most common form of cloud computing (and convenient for virtual-server vendor VMware,) internal, private clouds allow a company to weave ...