With the rapid proliferation in the cloud and a large number of companies migrating to it, there was bound to be a change in job definition and content. This has happened. A Florida based analyst firm has...

If one needed any proof that the cloud was here to stay, consider this – just between 2009 and 2010, advertisements for full time cloud computing related work have increased  by 3 ½  times. Obviously, all of...

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...

A senior executive at IBM has pointed out that small and medium businesses will gain tremendously with the availability of supercomputing to companies that could have never hoped to get this capability earlier. Supercomputing capabilities come to...

Microsoft is moving into China in a big way to take advantage of the vast cloud computing market in the country. The company has unveiled a new strategy called ‘go big’ for the Chinese market and is...

The collaborative features of the cloud are reducing the cost of running a business. In a non collaborative environment, businesses have to continuously re-create the data that some employee already has. This introduces wastage of time and...

A large number of applications and options are being generated by the cloud and the educational industry is also taking note of these new capabilities. Most analysts are now of the view that the next two to...

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...

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...

  A combined study by Microsoft and IDC, published in March this year shows that cloud computing will create 14 million new jobs by 2015. Predictably though, half of them go to China and India and less...