By Kate Greene Looking at friends’ pictures on Facebook or searching résumés on LinkedIn are relatively simple computing tasks in which information is called up, retrieved, and then shipped to a user’s screen from a distant data center. Yet such [...]
By Tom Simonite It could be among most obvious business plans ever: offer to store people’s files online so they can access them anywhere. The failure of any mainstream computing company to meet that simple need has left a gap [...]
By Cindy Waxer Imagine buying time on a computer in Ireland or Indiana the same way you’d bid for an antique on eBay. That’s how a new crop of startup companies called “cloud brokerages” plan to change the way companies [...]
By Michael Fitzgerald The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing a cloud-computing platform. The OpenStack software suite includes software for computation, storage, networking, and system [...]
If you invented something cheaper, more efficient, and more powerful than what came before, you might want to keep the recipe a closely guarded secret. Yet Facebook took the opposite approach after opening a 147,000-square-foot computing center in rural Oregon [...]
By Lee Gomes Microsoft has San Francisco, Minnesota, the United States Department of Agriculture, the European Environmental Agency, and the Regional Government of Catalonia. But Google is doing pretty well too, with Los Angeles, Orlando, Singapore’s ministry of education, four [...]
While the Micro Cloud Foundry documentation states that you can use its built-in dynamic DNS capabilities to connect to their Cloud Foundry instances from any online environment, it’s possible to use Micro Cloud Foundry in offline mode if you need [...]
By Erica Naone Among the features announced with Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is an unexpected and innovative new piece of software: a Web browser called Amazon Silk that taps into Amazon’s enormous cloud infrastructure to speed up the delivery [...]
By Simson L. Garfinkel Before Facebook and Google—even before the Internet—scientists at MIT had a radical vision they called the computer utility. “Computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public [...]
By Simson L. Garfinkel To bring some order to the fuzzy world of cloud computing, the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a standard definition and a Cloud Computing Reference Architecture. Both are in the form [...]
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