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 ...

'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. 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 ...

Those giant megaclouds create unique management challenges for CIOs and business leaders. Among other things, administrators need to maintain service levels, ensure that systems hosted in the cloud ...

Today I'm spending time in New York City attending the inaugural Cloud Business Summit. Produced by Saugatuck Technology, for me the event has really crystallized how fast the overall IT industry is ...

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 ...