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Cloud computing is changing the world thanks to people at many tech companies, big and small.

As John Lewis and Waitrose rolls out Google Apps, cloud computing appears to be finally gaining traction in retail. Retail Week looks at what the technology can do.

Cloud computing is rapidly transforming the way entire industries conduct business, and the legal field is no exception.

HEWLETT-PACKARD said it is investing more than $US1 billion ($1.07bn) over the next two years to develop cloud-computing software and tools, a move it considers necessary to ward off competition even if it means cannibalizing its legacy hardware and software businesses.

Exclusive Q&A with Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing, Yahoo! Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model

VMOps develops software that allows companies to launch an elastic computing cloud and offer it as a service to end-users

Another cloud computing provider similar to eucaliptus: VMOps develops software that allows companies to launch an elastic computing cloud and offer it as a service to end-users.

This document is intended to initiate a conversation that will bring together the emerging cloud computing community (both cloud users and cloud providers) around a core set of principles. We believe that these core principles are rooted in the belief that cloud computing should be as open as all other IT technologies.

Some OpenSocial apps can be written entirely with client-side JavaScript and HTML, leveraging the container to serve the page and store application data. In this case, the app can scale effortlessly because the only request hitting your server is for the gadget specification which is typically cached by the container anyway. However, there are lots of reasons to consider using your own server: * Allows you to write code in the programing language of your choice. * Puts you in control of how much application data you can store. * Lets you combine data from users on multiple social networks. * Enables interaction with the OpenSocial REST API. Setting up an OpenSocial app that uses a third party server is fairly simple. There are a few gotchas and caveats, but the real issues come up when your app becomes successful - serving millions of users and sending thousands of requests per second. Apps can grow especially fast on social networks, so before you launch your next social app, you should think about how to scale up quickly if your app takes off. Unfortunately, scaling is a complex problem that's hard to solve quickly and expensive to implement. Luckily, there are several companies that provide cloud computing resources-places you can store data or run processes on virtual machines. These computing solutions manage huge infrastructures so you can focus on your applications and let the "cloud" handle all the requests and data at scale. This tutorial focuses on a simple photo-sharing app that uses a third-party server to host photos and associated metadata. If this app is going to host millions of images and support many requests per second, we won't be able to run it on a single dedicated host. We'll break the app down and analyze the interactions between the OpenSocial App and the back end server. Then we'll implement the app in the cloud, first using Google App Engine, then leveraging Amazon's S3 data storage service. Finally, we'll look at s

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced a working draft that defines various aspects of cloud computing, which may finally put a lid on the dubious claims put out by many vendors.

Elastician: Cloud Computing Hierarchy of Needs

cloud computing opensource platform

cloud computing opensource platform

While the debate on the actual definition of cloud computing rages on, it seems that a whole new cloud computing vocabulary is rapidly emerging. I thougt I'd list some of the new terms I'm seeing with brief definitions, examples of usage and references to discussions related to these terms.

More than 70% business enterprises rely on mainframes as they deliver proven qualities of service, advanced workload optimization and efficient resource utilization. The large-scale computational capabilities and the ability to expand capacity on demand make Mainframes an all time favourite computing environment.

Banks are built on massive IT infrastructures that process huge volumes of data on a daily basis. The cloud's most obvious benefits will enable banks to keep up with technology changes while reducing costs.

Cloud computing is growing in use at federal agencies, according to a new survey that found that military, intelligence and civilian groups are rapidly adopting the cloud.

Cloud solutions Group is one of the top Cloud computing company in Melbourne. Contact Cloud solutions group for Cloud computing services in Australia.

Alan Kay's saying that the best way to predict the future is to create it resonates through the best cloud computing and enterprise software predictions for 2014. Constraints that held start-ups back from delivering sophisticated new apps and services are disappearing fast.  The dynamics of one of my favorite books

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group will extend its cloud-computing services to overseas markets in March, the China Daily reports.

Based on reader requests to provide broader coverage of cloud companies they are interested in, I've added 35 new companies to the Cloud Computing Index.