The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Anna Greenwald The cloud ...

One of the reasons virtualization (the precursor to cloud computing) gained popularity in the early 2000s is that companies had too many servers running at low utilization. The prevailing wisdom was ...

Insights from an AWS crypto-mining campaign show how valid credentials, rapid resource abuse, and visibility gaps expose cloud security blind spots.

1. Forget cloud first or cloud smart — focus on value. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the benefits of rapidly standing up mission-critical applications. Now, the lens has shifted again to ...

This week’s cloud tempest is the very visible breakdown of Microsoft’s Danger storage service for the T-Mobile Sidekick phone. An apologetic email (as reported by TechCrunch) first went out from ...

Last week, Dave Linthicum warned that the mistakes made in SOA risk getting repeated in cloud computing. Mike Kavis echoes Dave's concerns. Mike reports he has seen first-hand how cloud computing can ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...

If one considers the inception of the system known as “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) to be the onset of what has become known as the public cloud, then today the cloud is more than 10 years old. After 10 ...