The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Anna Greenwald The cloud ...

Big Blue’s Cloud CTO tells CRN that having rearchitected its portfolio with Kubernetes has enabled the flexibility IBM now needs to seamlessly scale in-demand cloud services like video streaming, file ...

If one considers the inception of the system known as “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) to be the onset of what has become known as the public cloud, then today the cloud is more than 10 years old. After 10 ...

The great cloud migration is officially happening. Some businesses migrate in hopes of increased productivity in their workforce. Others do it for data center consolidation or during acquisition or ...

One of the reasons virtualization (the precursor to cloud computing) gained popularity in the early 2000s is that companies had too many servers running at low utilization. The prevailing wisdom was ...

In theory, cloud-based storage is fairly close to being an unlimited resource. However, at least one cloud startup has realized that cloud storage has its limits, at least as a business proposition.

If cloud services were layered architecturally, providers would be able to better contain the effects of failure on the critical services The recent Amazon Web Services outage reminded us once again ...

Have you noticed that ZapThink’s crystal ball has been working overtime? We sounded the warnings about cyberwarfare mere days before the Stuxnet worm hit. Then we predicted the fall of enterprise ...

An old standby of cyber criminals–the denial-of-service attack–has become a new worry for data center operators. As companies increasingly use virtualized data centers and cloud services, new ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...