Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, ... The guiding principles used to create the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (NIST SP 500-292) ...

The second volume, Useful Information for Cloud Adopters, introduces a conceptual model, the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture and Taxonomy and presents U.S. government cloud target ...

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 ...

The U.S. issued a “cloud first” policy in 2011 to require agencies to consider cloud options for new IT deployments, with the aim of reducing data centers and cost. The United Kingdom ...

The jump from static data center architectures--or even those that use virtualization strictly for consolidation--to cloud computing is an gradual process; one with a few key milestones to guide ...

This insideHPC technology guide, insideHPC Guide to HPC Fusion Computing Model – A Reference Architecture for Liberating Data, discusses how organizations need to adopt a Fusion Computing Model to ...

The arrival of cloud services and consumption-based pricing has seen agencies part with the age-old practice of buying items and paying for them through annual budgeting.. But the new gasoline pump ...

Cloud computing has increasingly become a dominant model for computer and information technology service, with the majority of businesses worldwide using computing resources and storing data “in ...

Microsoft Azure offers a suite of cloud computing services with a competitive pay-as-you-go pricing model. Some services can even be used for free.