The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference ...

Get a complete overview of the actors and their roles and the necessary architectural components for managing and providing cloud services. The adoption of cloud computing into the U.S. Government and ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) definition of cloud computing is considered by many to be the final word on cloud. "Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, ...

Cloud computing technologies are ubiquitous. While not exactly new technologies, the speed with which they’re transforming business models and efficiencies seem to have accelerated over the past few ...

To bring some order to the fuzzy world of cloud computing, the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a standard definition and a Cloud Computing Reference ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public comment a draft "roadmap" that is designed to foster federal agencies' adoption of cloud ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II. The roadmap focuses on strategic ...

Roger Smith challenges the need for a maturity model for cloud computing. His points are worth consideration, but as he makes his case he clearly misunderstands the tenor and theme of the model I ...

The journey upwards to the clouds is often more complex than at first imagined. Cloud computing is simple. That’s the promise we were all sold. With cloud, we get to buy our computing resources in an ...

And while Amazon Web Services has made great gains as a cloud computing pioneer, it is Amazon and its cadre of partners that inject value and capability into the cloud. Vogels said success in the ...

What do you call a service that has a SaaS front end to a infrastructure-as-a-service back end? Have we further differentiated the IaaS space? James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 ...