The month was February 2011 and the Arab Spring in Egypt was in full swing. Hundreds of thousands of people were thronging Cairo’s Tahrir Square to press for democracy. Al Jazeera was the only news agency with...

Which cloud service is going to see faster growth? The answer depends on the part of the world you happen to be in. The lesser developed areas of the world are seeing more of Software as a...

Small and medium businesses are using cloud based VoIP systems to cut down on costs and increase agility. Traditional fixed line phone systems are out. Setting up VoIP takes nothing more than VoIP phones (even they can...

Even though the cloud has already made a major difference to corporations, it is clearly still in its infancy as far as the technology and capabilities are concerned. Infancy of a technology is defined by many to...

Cloud computing seems to be bringing with it a dose of reality as well. A news report published September 11, 2012 says that more than 50% of CIO and other IT decision makers regret making large purchases...

Cloud pricing comparisons can be very difficult to make. Every cloud service provider has a different metric to offer and it really takes some skill to be able to make out which is giving you more value...

One of the fundamental reasons why firms today prefer the cloud to on-premise legacy systems is the potential for savings big costs incurred while running their business applications. On demand services such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...

In the Fifth Annual Structure Conference at San Francisco, the focus was squarely on how cloud computing had developed and the future of the technology. It was evident that cloud computing had become pervasive and that it...

Both Microsoft and Google are working actively to take Amazon on in the cloud computing domain with Infrastructure as a service offerings that match what Amazon is doing. Industry sources say that Microsoft may announce its new...