Amazon.com (AMZN) this morning unveiled "Elastic Beanstalk," a new free service to make it easier for application developers to use the company's suite of cloud-based computing services. Amazon's ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, has made it possible to deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana to ...

Forming the Cloud — The term “cloud computing” has been floating around for many years, but started to take a more precise form in 2006 after Amazon opened up its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. This article is more than 10 years old. The typical virtual ...

Providers make a big deal how the cloud can scale up and down as you need it, but most enterprises already have that capacity in-house -- and are looking for something else instead I got a kick out of ...

NEW YORK & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch, today ...

Amazon continues to push the boundaries of web services and people's tolerance for clever branding with its recently launched "Elastic Compute Cloud", offering easily scalable computing on demand to ...

Cloud providers love to talk about how elastic the cloud is. But what does that really mean? In truth, less than you might think. Elasticity is really about load balancing, or moving processes among ...

Many in the investment management world would agree that the cloud is gaining traction in the sector. While generally those in the front office don’t foresee much impact from the technology, the ...

While many companies are considering moving applications to the cloud, the security of the third-party services still leaves much to be desired, security experts warned attendees at last week’s Black ...