Cloud Computing News And Reviews

Web hosting, software as a service (SAS), data storage and even cloud gaming; why bother with big iron, expensive equipment when someone else's infrastructure can do it for you? Cloud infrastructure can be hugely efficient and cost-effective. Buy only what you need and scale up as you grow. Cloud services are elastic, flexible and on-demand.

Saving your files in the cloud affords a number of benefits, not least among them reliability. Why worry about hard drive failures when Google can keep copies of your files on multiple servers? That's all well and good in theory, but Google Drive has encountered a problem. In recent days, Drive users have reported... Read more...
You could argue that the modern backpack is cloud storage, and if that's the case, you'd be hard pressed to find an offline bag that can compete with Google's "Drive for Education" initiative. Not that you'd want to -- the weight of such a thing would be overbearing, because what Google is offering is unlimited Drive... Read more...
Last month Google acquired Zync Inc, a company that has provided special effects for movies such as Star Trek Into Darkness. With that acquisition, Google gained the cloud-rendering visual effects company to try and make the creation of visual effects cheaper and lure people to use its Cloud Platform. Now Google is... Read more...