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 ...

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 ...

Cloud technology has transformed almost every aspect of modern work and daily life. From hosting an online meeting with thousands of attendees worldwide to virtually unlimited compute and storage ...

1. Forget cloud first or cloud smart — focus on value. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the benefits of rapidly standing up mission-critical applications. Now, the lens has shifted again to ...

'Cloud-first' policies have had a resounding impact throughout government, helping many federal agencies move away from legacy technology. To explore how organizations are driving the push towards a ...

This week’s cloud tempest is the very visible breakdown of Microsoft’s Danger storage service for the T-Mobile Sidekick phone. An apologetic email (as reported by TechCrunch) first went out from ...

I have been a professor at the University of Georgia for almost 15 years. I primarily teach upper-level courses in the Atmospheric Sciences Program. I serve as Director of that program, but I ...

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 ...

Cloud capacity provider Nirvanix croaked recently, giving clients two weeks to get their data out of there. I estimate that most clients would require two months or more to accomplish this. Some need ...