Cloud computing will lead to a 12 percent to 15 percent decrease in channel companies within the next five years as more end customers turn to their vendors for cloud technologies and services and leave their partners behind, new research by Forrester warned.

Cloud computing looks to be a “classic disruptive technology,” says Forrester Research in an interesting new report published Monday. For enterprise IT shops, cloud computing still poses some real risks, including an almost complete lack of service ...

The cost benefits that cloud computing offers to its users is something that has been discussed ad nauseam. In a study conducted by researchers from UC Berkeley and INRIA, France showed that cloud computing can offer savings of anywhere between 40-95% ...

D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti are deeply unprofitable. Over the past year, the first two companies burned twice as much cash as they earned in revenue, and Rigetti burned six times as much cash. The other problem is their valuations. All three stocks trade at price-to-sales (PS) ratios that are nonsensical when compared to forecasted sales growth.

The typical cloud computing contract can look downright simple to an experienced IT outsourcing customer accustomed to inking pacts hundreds of pages long that outline service levels and penalties, pricing and benchmarks, processes and procedures, security ...

Joe McKendrick provides some great analysis around the fact that many SOA vendors are “being pushed into cloud, kicking and screaming.” … the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Worthen and Justin Scheck have a different take on all this happy cloud talk.

“Edge computing also means less data travels long distances, lowering the load on main servers and networks,” says Neel Somani. “This can reduce wait times for users watching live events, playing games, or making financial trades where every second counts.”

CRN introduced the first annual 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors in 2010 with the aim of helping solution providers navigate the cloud market. While that goal hasn't changed over the past five years, the cloud market certainly has with offerings now ...

Anand Srinivasan is a consultant from Bangalore, India. He has over 7 years of experience in this industry having worked with a number of SMBs on their cloud adoption and market outreach strategies. The cost benefits that cloud computing offers to its ...