An official Oracle document, available originally at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/cloud-hosting-delivery-policies-1881437.pdf  (the document seems to have been removed now), laid down the terms of service and contractual obligations for customers of its cloud services. Based on what the blog world is...

I have discussed the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in detail in these postings (just search this blog for Sandy). In a number of ways, Hurricane Sandy showed the value that cloud computing was giving to its users....

Studies show that new types of applications are evolving due to the capabilities made possible due to cloud computing. These applications focus on big data, large scale social interactions, web data and mobile computing. A typical application...

Clouds that use open source software to provide Platform as a service and Infrastructure as a service are proving to be much more popular than those running on closed source, proprietary software. HP provides an example, it...

When we think about cloud computing, we think of the data center as one homogeneous collection of servers and CPUs that are humming away smoothly to keep the web sites of the world going. The truth is...

When 150 senior executives were surveyed about how they found cloud computing to be, a common answer to emerge was that with SaaS applications and extensive cloud usage, network loading had increased to a point where they...

Videoconferencing has been around for quite a while. What is new in this domain is the shift to cloud based video conferencing. Previously, Video Conferencing used to require specialist manpower to setup. With cloud based connectivity, things...

While it is quite clear that TV production houses use cloud computing extensively, it came as a surprise to me to discover that one of the heavy users of cloud computing is the Reality TV industry. Why...

Private clouds have been around for a long time (relatively speaking) and if th truth be told, there are many CEOs who are far happier with a private cloud than a public one.  There are many fallacies...

In a number of instances, there are doubts in the minds of practitioners about what really is a private cloud. Is this a large data center that you have built up inside your premises or could it...