Governments are typically sitting on piles of big data and they are beginning to realize that using this, they can really make a difference to the standards of governance in their countries. In Japan for instance, there...

We had earlier discussed points raised by the UNESCO about using the cloud for education. The trend continues to pick up and larger numbers of cloud based education systems are making news. There is a growth in...

Government agencies were used to buying stuff. With the advent of cloud computing, they have to learn how to buy services. And it is to their credit that at least some of them know how to use...

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...

With computing power so cheap and available so readily over the cloud, there are a lot of brute force solutions being used rather than spending a lot of time in designing something that is perfect  the first...

Institutes of higher learning all over the world are facing higher costs and are looking at every possible way to cut budgets. Many of them have understood that cloud computing provides one such remedy. Most educational institutions...

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...

If you are an entrepreneur who wants to experiment and find what works and what doesn’t, the cloud is the ideal platform to do that. You can experiment as much as you want and fail (and learn)...

  For many reasons, the healthcare industry is proving to be an ideal showcase for cloud capabilities. Just take a look at patient records alone – legislation regarding how these are to be maintained and accessed is...