Cloud computing and grid computing are often mistaken for one another, but the fact is that they’re nowhere close to the same thing. This article explains both systems, and how they differ from one ...

Cloud computing and Grid computing are the two words that end up confusing many people as they are similar in theory. Cloud computing and Grid computing involves a massive computer network ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

The cloud could be a next generation platform that provides dynamic resource pools, virtualization and high availability. In beginning the construct of the Distributed Computing and also the Grid ...

As with nearly every IT trend, including service-oriented architectures and Web services, just because we’re all talking about cloud computing doesn’t mean we’re talking about the same thing. I ...

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I was in a Twit-based cloud discussion last week about the role of the “cloud” term and how it has essentially replaced or should be renamed (or reverted) to the term “utility.” There are surely many ...

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology. In this guest post, Susan Bowen, vice president and general manager at managed service provider Cogeco Peer 1, takes a look at the ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...

For the last decade, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood ...

Green ICT is a global imperative that must be pursued with urgency. Everyone involved in information and telecommunications technology – including cloud computing – must take it into account in their ...