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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...

Last week, Dave Linthicum warned that the mistakes made in SOA risk getting repeated in cloud computing. Mike Kavis echoes Dave's concerns. Mike reports he has seen first-hand how cloud computing can ...

Suddenly, everyone is an expert on enterprise security, and the cloud is claimed to be a silver bullet for security. It’s not that simple I’ve stopped covering breaches. First, because clouds are ...

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 ...

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 ...