Perry Krug, director of shared services at Couchbase, explains how cloud bursting is essential for those businesses that need to suddenly handle large spikes in demand. Businesses in all sectors are ...

Nothing is the same in the world of cloud technology year-to-year. Could cloud bursting make a comeback in new packaging? About two years ago I wrote a piece here on the concept of cloud bursting, ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Cloud bursting is an application deployment model that allows an organization to run applications in a private cloud or data center and "burst" into a public cloud when the demand for computing ...

The public cloud has quickly established itself as an easy and frictionless way to build out IT infrastructure. If you already have on-premise systems, at some point, there will be a desire to ...

One of the key benefits of the cloud is its flexible, or “elastic”, nature. Organisations can increase compute resources and storage capacity when they need it with little more than a web browser and ...

The concept of cloud bursting essentially came out of spare capacity that Amazon had on its massive server farms whilst running its websites. These server farms were built to meet particularly high ...

A core idea of cloud computing is elasticity, i.e., enabling applications to adapt to varying load by dynamically acquiring and releasing cloud resources. One concrete realization is cloud bursting, ...

Researchers at SDSC and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center have successfully completed a second computational experiment using thousands of GPUs across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft ...

There is certainly no doubt that cloud computing is real today and that it brings significant benefits to a wide array of IT organizations. There is also no doubt that a lot of what gets written about ...