Data replication is a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, crucial for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and rapid data access in both cloud and grid environments. Contemporary ...

Ian Foster is widely considered the founder of grid computing, the precursor to cloud computing. Foster is the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the ...

There are many terms thrown around cloud computing, such as cloud-based, cloud-first, cloud-agnostic, and most recently cloud-native. Unfortunately, different companies are using the terms differently ...

For the last decade, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has promoted his pet idea that traditional application software was destined for obsolescence. He was a few years early, but Benioff understood ...

Processing and data storage happen on edge systems over the cloud. But network constraints may be the best way to distinguish edge from cloud. At the core, the key difference between edge computing ...

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's vaunted cloud computing platform. Azure offers a range of cloud-based solutions for the creation and management of applications. Most Azure products use a pay-as-you-go ...