Commentary--Interest in cloud computing is rampant across the entire IT industry and everyone has a different perspective and understanding of the technology. For instance, there are myriad variations ...

Cloud computing, even with its maturity in the past decade and use by businesses, is still prone to a good deal of myth surrounding its real value. Whether they revolve around security concerns or ...

CIO.com's Bernard Golden says a new UC Berkeley report has some sage advice for IT groups regarding cloud computing, but that it also underestimates some challenges. Last month the UC Berkeley ...

In the early days of cloud computing, private clouds promised the scalability, elasticity, and manageability of public clouds combined with the security and control over on-premises data center ...

Cloud has been a game-changer in the digital world, creating an entirely new dimension for business operations and collaboration. By eliminating the scalability, flexibility, and access limitations of ...

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Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...

Cloudbursts — violent and voluminous amounts of rain pouring down in a short duration over a small area — have been reported since the mid-19th century. Yet, the characteristics of these events remain ...

A definition for cloud computing, despite it having been with us for many years (some say back to the 1960s), seems to be fairly elusive. The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST ...