Cloud computing has furthered the process over the last decade, making hardware an abstract resource that, for customers, is increasingly someone else’s problem to manage.

David S. Linthicum is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. Dave has authored 13 books on computing, the latest of which is An Insider’s Guide to Cloud Computing.Dave ...

It used to be that computing hardware was kept general-purpose to support any workload, but that may not work well in the cloud. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing; ...

It's been a truism from the dawn of cloud computing (and its predecessors) that the underlying hardware is irrelevant to the end user (ie the enterprise). And as a truism, it holds up pretty well ...

Cloud Computing is the next big thing in remote and distributed ... However there's something taking shape on the horizon that looks a little like Web 2.0 for computing hardware and ...

Far be it from me to call BS on IBM, but today's announcement and subsequent NY Times story on IBM's new hardware (which are essentially blade servers) has nothing to do with Cloud Computing.

Nvidia this week outlined what it dubbed a revolutionary plan to change the graphic processing game by offloading some computing to the cloud. For Nvidia, the cloud meets GPU effort would enable ...

As cloud computing becomes more and more popular, understanding the economics of cloud computing becomes critically important. To maximize the profit, a service provider should understand both ...

Microsoft got where it is by ensuring that Windows ran on many different types of hardware. Monday, the company said its cloud computing platform will soon offer access to the most exotic hardware ...