The French Government is backing two competing cloud service providers in France to give the industry support to expand. The government is investing using funds from the Caisse des Dépôts – its sovereign wealth fund. The key...

In many underdeveloped countries of the world, cloud computing, combined with very basic smartphones is making a big difference to the quality of life of millions of people. This could not have been done without the cloud....

There is some work going on in Massachusetts to define what really constitutes cloud computing and to figure out what part of the service ought to be taxed and which can be exempted.  This is not a...

  These are the early days of cloud computing and many organizations are taking their first few steps to move their applications and data to the cloud. The experience so far has been good and most companies...

Oracle is getting ready to make a big move into the already overcrowded world of cloud computing. Just this week, analysts at a meeting were made to sign non-disclosure agreements and were introduced to a live iPad...

Cloud computing is going places and guess where it has reached now – Hollywood! With the enormous amount amounts of data film and TV companies produce and the need for several teams to work collaboratively on various...

An IBM report highlights some interesting trends about cloud computing.  75% of the respondents to its survey said that their organization would build on cloud infrastructure within the next two years. IT professionals associated with the survey...

April 13, 2012, Microsoft announced its largest ever customer for cloud computing. This customer is the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The AICTE sets the standards for technical education in hundreds of engineering colleges in...

  If you wanted to get access to 200 terabytes of human genetic data – free of charge – guess where you’d have to go. The Amazon Web Services are offering this entire database to anyone at...

While writers and reporters have gone ballistic writing about the benefits cloud computing can bring to businesses and individuals, one domain that has been totally under-reported is the advances in medical sciences. Till not so long ago,...