It used to be that 1 terabyte (TB) of storage was a lot, but now 1TB of storage is quite common to find on even the least expensive laptops. Over the years, a number of cloud-based storage vendors ...

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A cloud application is internet-based software that processes or stores data online. There are three main kinds of cloud applications: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure ...

Cloud software environments offer many advantages to their users over on-premises infrastructures, including flexibility, automated maintenance, and easy scalability. These benefits are why many ...

Enabling your existing “pre-cloud” enterprise applications to take full advantage of cloud computing is fraught with technical obstacles, such as unsupported versions of operating systems (OS), ...

Simply running an application on a remote server doesn’t make it cloud-native. It’s about specific design principles for scalability and resilience. Cloud-native applications are increasingly the ...

In Hangzhou, China, thousands of traffic lights and sensors spanning an area of 420 km 2 are connected to a smart city platform, delivering data and insights for the city’s officials to improve ...