When we talk about cloud computing, two companies immediately jump to mind: Salesforce.com and Amazon. Each represents a very different model of cloud, and each is equally valued by enterprises.

In face of stiff price competition from Amazon and Google, Rackspace embraces its managed heritage. Is this a sign of things to come? Rackspace is discontinuing its pure Infrastructure as a Service ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

If you’re familiar with the enterprise world, you’re probably aware of the existence of a concept known as IaaS, or infrastructure as a service. For the uninitiated, this means that all the trappings ...

Need compute, storage, and networking infrastructure without the capital investment? IaaS delivers those resources over the internet on demand, along with the cloud services you need to build, deploy, ...

To help IT make the mental shift, the cloud industry uses analogs to the datacenter's divisions—but ultimately they'll merge into simply 'services' I’ve read many stories that say IaaS is the future ...