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The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Anna Greenwald The cloud ...

The NSA and FBI love the cloud. If you're using cloud computing in your business—or are considering it—has yesterday's PRISM revelations given you pause? Should they? If the government can secretly ...

Cloud is just a delivery mechanism for achieving business outcomes — cost savings, speed, agility, and automation. On March 13, ZDNet hosted a panel featuring four cloud-seasoned CXOs that discussed ...

If one considers the inception of the system known as “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) to be the onset of what has become known as the public cloud, then today the cloud is more than 10 years old. After 10 ...

Public cloud services are growing steadily in popularity among CIOs despite continued skepticism from some. But, warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Four Tough Cloud Lessons We Learned ...

'The cloud' is the buzzword du jour, but where did the term come from, and what does it really mean? The idea that computing would one day become a public utility, for example, has been around since ...

Amazon's cloud outage rocked the IT world, when its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS) went black and knocked several high-profile customer sites offline or caused ...

CORRECTED: In addition to exposing personal data on 198 million American voters, Deep Root Analytics' data leak this week exposed dangerous cloud security missteps that should serve as a cautionary ...

A lightning strike in Dublin took out a power transformer. In and of itself, that isn’t all that unusual or noteworthy, but this particular lightning strike also impacted the backup power systems at ...