Several different flavors have sprung up in cloud computing and each has their pros and cons. Add to these the plethora of vendor-created acronyms and it can be confusing to figure out the best option ...

There are so many "as a service" acronyms these days that you can"t even keep up with them. Heck, at VMworld there was a "Party as a Service" (great party, by the way; you all should attend).

Commentary - Cloud Computing has the entire IT industry buzzing, with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Google, and others investing billions of dollars in this new form of computing in ...

Azure is moving down the stack. It was originally a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool, which is more of less a full stack to run your apps -- just one level below Software as a Service (SaaS). Most ...

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With IaaS, it is up to the consumer to architect for scale and failover. PaaS solutions have upper bound limitations by client that limit how much compute resources a consumer can request making PaaS ...

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that ...

At the start of this year, Computing carried out an extensive research programme on cloud Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service for our new Delta market analysis tool. This included a focus group, ...