Cloud computing is a nebulous concept. It means one thing to one person and something else to another. A team of computer scientists at the National Association of Standards and Technology (NIST) has ...

Define cloud computing. Go ahead. Do it. Now turn to the person next to you. Ask them to define it. That definition is a lot different than yours, isn’t it? One problem solution providers face as they ...

Hardware and software services from a provider on the Internet (the "cloud"). Cloud providers replace in-house operations and are invaluable for companies, no matter their size or type of applications ...

The NIST definition hasn’t changed noticeably since its early definitions of cloud computing, which, according to NIST, cloud computing must consist of the following elements: on-demand self-service, ...

As most of my regular readers know, I work as a technology strategy advisor for several different government agencies; in that role I get to spend quality time with folks from NIST (the National ...

Almost everybody engages in "cloud computing," but a recent survey revealed that most people haven't the faintest idea what it is. Some 29 percent of Americans think "the cloud" — the thing you access ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Yesterday I asked a simple question on twitter. "If your "PaaS" (Platform as a platform) requires the deployment of Virtual machines, is it really PaaS?" The point of my question is the line between ...

An organization that offers datacenter facilities in a cloud computing environment. Amazon's EC2 and Google App Engine are examples. See cloud computing and cloud management system. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Last year, the Defense Department inspector general embarked on a mission to determine whether cloud computing actually saves the Pentagon money. One year later, that question remains unanswered, ...