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What’s in a name?This issue of Pipeline is dedicated to the “cloud”, a term with which I’m not wholly enamored. Like its puffy white namesake, the cloud of the computing realm is nebulous, lacks definite substance, and tends to expand or contract according to the prevailing winds of buzz and...

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It is important to separate the marketing buzz from the real-world data to get an accurate picture of cloud computing services. According to the sales pitch, enterprise cloud services offer significant cost savings, eliminate redundant hardware purchases, and support a distributed workforce. But...

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Mobile cloud computing is a booming phenomenon: Juniper reseach predicts the market for mobile cloud apps to reach $9.5 billion by 2014. As smartphones have become increasingly powerful and networks funnel data at higher rates, cloud computing has moved from the sky and into the hands of users. ...

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With the possible exception of “net neutrality,” “the cloud” is the most abused technology buzzword of the last few years, applied to almost anything that involves the internet. One of the more troublesome aspects of this phenomenon is the way in which people often refer to “the cloud” as if it’s...

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Very often, the discussion around the growth of newer service offerings focuses on the plucky upstarts and fringe players, for whom the risks of backing rising technologies is relatively low, and the rewards for betting wisely are outrageously high.However, it’s important to note that for many...

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There can be no doubt that cloud computing has arrived and will define the IT landscape for at least the next decade. According to IDC, spending on public IT cloud offerings in 2014 will be almost one-third of the net new growth in IT spending. And according to a recent survey by Gartner, 10% of IT...

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Communications service providers beat expectations last year by communicating to their Enterprise customers that they would be players in cloud computing, beyond the dumb-pipe role that had been carved out for them by others in the supply chain. Many successfully navigated the hype by, in part,...

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During his annual State of the Union address in late January, U.S. President Barack Obama outlined an aggressive plan for the telecom industry: "Within the next five years, we will make it possible for business to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98% of all...

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Is it just me, or is the cloud everywhere .It wasn’t that long ago that talking about cloud computing was the domain of IT conference sessions or the sorts of boring dinner conversations that would get you kicked under the table by your spouse. Now the cloud is starring...

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