Analyst firm Gartner has revised the way it defines cloud computing to help prevent organisations from being hoodwinked by providers and to reflect emerging usage of the technology. In an announcement ...

Kurt Marko is miffed at the manner in which marketers are hijacking cloud to such an extent that the term has become almost meaningless. Time to untangle this mess. (© hin255 - Fotolia.com) One of the ...

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 ...

Belle Wong is a freelance writer specializing in small business, personal finance, banking, and tech/SAAS. She spends her spare moments testing out the latest productivity apps and plotting her latest ...

(Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry, Bob Evans was VP of Strategic Communications at SAP in 2011, and Chief Communications Officer at Oracle from 2012 ...

It may sound like wordsmithing, but Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely thinks it’s important for CIOs to be specific when they use the term “private cloud.” Gracely headed up a Wikibon team that recently ...

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 ...