Cloud architects may think they understand abstraction, orchestration, and automation, but these fundamental concepts are still very relevant to cloud computing. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking ...

Information technology seems to progress in waves, with each new wave replacing (or at least extending) the previous generation of systems. Most people would agree that cloud computing is the ...

The evolution of cloud technology is affecting all technology. The era of the PC got us to client/server. The growth of distributed computing got us service-oriented architecture.

Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology and Architecture, by Thomas Erl, Zaigham Mahmood and Ricardo Puttini.Thomas is an outstanding thought leader behind the emerging class of service technologies ...

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Thomas Erl, co-author of the just-released book, Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, about these concerns.Erl's latest book is ...