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 ...

Public cloud services are growing steadily in popularity among CIOs despite continued skepticism from some. But, warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Four Tough Cloud Lessons We Learned ...

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 ...

Amazon's cloud outage rocked the IT world, when its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS) went black and knocked several high-profile customer sites offline or caused ...

'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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The phrase "business continuity" has all the panache of term insurance, preventative ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Cloud technology has transformed almost every aspect of modern work and daily life. From ...

Cloud is just a delivery mechanism for achieving business outcomes — cost savings, speed, agility, and automation. On March 13, ZDNet hosted a panel featuring four cloud-seasoned CXOs that discussed ...

A lightning strike in Dublin took out a power transformer. In and of itself, that isn’t all that unusual or noteworthy, but this particular lightning strike also impacted the backup power systems at ...

Opinions vary widely on the merits of the Affordable Care Act. There is little doubt, however, that the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act's website Healthcare.gov leaves something to be desired.

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 ...