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Cloud computing is internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow the centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network. At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services.
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Big, traditional enterprises that scoffed at cloud deployment a few years ago, aren’t laughing now. They’re fully aboard, as we’ll discuss at Structure 2014. Read more »
Rightscale keeps a sharp eye on business cloud usage. Kim Weins talks about some surprising findings from the company’s 2014 State of the Cloud Survey. Read more »
AWS customers love the sheer variety of services available to them; they’re not wild about how hard it is to assess what they’re paying. Amazon says Cost Explorer is here to… Read more »
The week in cloud: Microsoft stresses Azure’s openness to outside products — but that philosophy doesn’t extend to Office for iPad’s storage choices. Read more »
Enterprise IT managers are watching the open-source cloud infrastructure project OpenStack with interest, hoping it might offer an easy way to begin exploiting the cloud alongside their existing IT estates. Read more »
New unified and easier-to-use console, to be demo’d by Scott Guthrie at Build, will make Azure deployments easier to manage and track. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show Tom Reilly lays out a bit more detail about the company’s massive $900 million investment round and what Intel’s strategic involvement will mean. Read more »
The Andromeda virtualized network that underlies some of Google’s services is now available to certain customers of Google’s Compute Engine with more zones coming on in the coming months. Read more »
Canonical wants to make Ubuntu a contender in the mobile space, and that means setting up an ecosystem. The entity at the center of that ecosystem wouldn’t necessarily be Canonical itself. Read more »