The God Particle Ever since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, went active in 2008, speculation has been rife that the elusive Higgs boson, [...]

Cloud Service Outage If you are using one of the major CSPs (cloud service providers) you may already be used to major service outages. Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Google Apps and [...]

Be a Cloud Executive Officer Chief executive officers of the 2010s ignore the cloud at their peril. As we at CloudTweaks know better than most, cloud computing has become an [...]

Can You Retrieve Your Data After Terminating Your Contract? Consider the following scenarios. Scenario 1: You have a great cloud service provider and have moved all your business data there. [...]

Cloud Basic Checklist Transition to the cloud could be one of the most important decisions you make in your IT infrastructure management. Thus, it is important that you do it [...]

Cloud Computing Setup For Business If you are migrating from enterprise to a cloud based solution, it is necessary to understand the different roles in the cloud computing setup for [...]

The Cloud Wars – Private Vs Public Cloud computing is not an all-or-nothing option. In the past decade, the industry has matured to a point where there are almost a [...]

Cloud Service Brokerages Can Help If you are a typical cloud computing client, you might already be using a few cloud service providers for your different applications. Your mail might [...]

Waiting For Godot The title of this post comes from one of the more interesting comments made during the Twitter chat on 12 April focusing on the interactions between the [...]

Determining The Cost Of The Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) This service model enables user organizations to forgo deployment of new datacenter equipment to handle growing operational needs. Rather, [...]

Cloud Service Models Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) This service model enables user organizations to forgo deployment of new datacenter equipment to handle growing operational needs. Rather, the business obtains [...]

Traditional vs Dynamic Cloud computing is not just a trend. It is changing the way IT organizations drive business value. In a short span of time, cloud computing has changed [...]

Fundamental Elements Of Security Cloud security or cloud computing security evolved from information security and includes a wide set of controls, technologies, and policies used to protect the associated infrastructure, [...]

Understanding The Cloud Migration Process Migrating to the cloud can be driven by a number of business factors – reducing capital outlay, increasing the throughput and making the system more robust. [...]

Converged Infrastructure Converged infrastructure is very similar to an Airbus 380 – it has a tremendous amount of capacity, but there is no way a human can control it without [...]