With cloud, two of the latest have been containers and serverless computing. Both take the established concept behind virtual machines (VMs) to the next level, promising greater efficiencies and lower ...

As human beings we like analogies. Admittedly, we sometimes overextend them and end up obfuscating rather than clarifying. Such is arguably the case with cloud computing and the electric grid. However ...

Focus on open source viewed as helping to avoid vendor lock in. Bob Quillin, vice president for developer relations at Oracle, in a blog post described the platform as a mix between an integrated ...

A deep dive into securing containerized environments and understanding how they present unique security challenges. Containers are self-contained pods representing complete, portable application ...

Cloudways is a cloud platform offering support for organizations that need to run web-applications. Competing with other web-application hosting services like Pantheon and Pressable, Cloudways offers ...

Microsoft has revealed that it has fixed a bug in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) service that may have allowed a user to access other customers' information in the ACI. ACI lets customers run ...

Ever feel that cloud computing sounds like a pile of acronyms, hidden fees and choices you are somehow meant to understand straight away? Many readers worry about cost, security and where their data ...