The NIST cloud computing research team is studying cloud ... the field's standard use of drawing the Internet as a cloud in diagrams. Security is always a concern with any new computer approach ...

The term cloud computing, by the way, comes from the field's standard use of drawing the Internet as a cloud in diagrams, according to NIST. The working draft definition also describes five key ...

Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations (Special Publication 800-146), NIST’s general guide to cloud computing, explains systems in plain language and provides recommendations for information ...

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 ...

The much-hyped vision of information technology's cloud computing future is often described with an analogy to the power industry: Just as we pipe in electricity from a central utility, the ...

The roadmap will also recommend action plans for industry, academia, and standards organizations to help close these requirements, says Dawn Leaf, NIST’s senior executive for cloud computing. The ...

The cloud computing research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comments on a draft of its most complete guide to cloud computing to date. NIST ...

Two major new technologies come together for the Cloud Computing and Big Data Workshop, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at its Gaithersburg, Md., campus Jan. 15 ...