This open-source cloud keeps getting better and better.

The public cloud market is maturing, which is another way of saying the biggest companies are getting bigger while the smaller ones are shrinking or disappearing.

Rob Hiltbrand, director of IT at The Liberty Group, shared valuable lessons he learned during his company's transition to cloud services. Simply put: Things didn't always go as planned.

At a superficial glance, containers and virtual machines look and work the same. But a closer look reveals a different story.

In 2013, the CIA partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build and maintain a cloud used by 17 intelligence agencies. The following year, GE announced

Successful cloud companies don’t need to be public cloud companies.

Many (most?) vendor alliances never amount to more than a press release and some headlines.

Mastering the cloud is a lot easier with the DevOps program Chef in your kitchen.

Need programmers who can really develop on the cloud? Cloud Foundry is starting an online class to teach and certify them.

The "digital divide" has changed, but it hasn't necessarily gotten better.

If all you’re doing is running a single server instance, you don’t need DevOps tools such as Puppet. But, if you’re setting up and managing multiple servers, you need Puppet.

On one really bad day, Amazon Web Services went haywire, and so did millions of users.

Gartner sees the public cloud's future as rosy, but many aren't ready to give up on the private cloud yet.

I’ve been consulting on cloud migrations and deployments for a while now. Along the way, I’ve seen lots of mistakes made. Mea culpa: I’ve made some of them myself. Don’t be like me, or a lot of companies. Avoid these five blunders and you’ll be much better off.

Do you often find yourself playing 'find the file' among all your cloud storage services? One of these three apps can help.

Understanding how service offerings like XaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are redefining the future of the data center.

For OpenStack, 2016 was a bumpy year.

Organizations need to develop skills and technology to manage Big Data operations across multiple data centers, likely across large geographic areas.

OpenStack is a great open-source cloud. It has broad industry support. Indeed, it’s hard to find a major technology company that doesn’t back OpenStack. There’s only one little thing wrong with it: It’s a nightmare to pick up and deploy. Now, The Linux Foundation is offering a free class for it.

All signs point to a rocky future for managed service providers. As Zachary Purl writes in an August 1, 2016, article on Business2Community, MSP margins are shrinking, and the traditional managed services model is being commoditized. So why are so