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...

Falling Prices only a temporary phenomenon? We have been discussing the price wars in the cloud industry in this blog and now there is a warning on it as well. Several writers have said that this price...

Depending on how you perceive security in the cloud and how you are affected, this post has both good news and bad. The bad news is that researchers have demonstrated that it is possible for one software...

As Hurricane Sandy approached the East coast, data centers all over the area from Boston to Florida and elsewhere went into preparation mode to handle any eventuality. While the results of how well they withstood the hurricane...

With the Cloud taking on increasingly more mission critical roles, it is essential that the entire structure of your application in the cloud be based on sound principles and best practices of computer science. While many business...

If you wish that your industry adopted the cloud faster than it is doing now, then it is possibly due to the decision makers in your company not having confidence in the technology or are simply reluctant...

North Carolina State University has provided research findings that show clouds can have monitoring software that constantly checks the health of your application and initiates recovery actions. In many cases, applications had bugs that emerged under some...

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...

While by now most cloud users understand the importance of a well negotiated and enforceable service level agreement, there are some issues about what should go inside the document itself. Yes, issues about up time and damages...