Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. Cloud interoperability and portability seems to be a hot topic ...

Through elasticity, increased agility and pay-as-you-go models, the cloud offers a true utility model for information technology (IT) services. While the benefits are compelling, applications that ...

Personal clouds offer potential benefits in today's multi-device, Web 2.0 era but the adoption and popularity of having one's own cloud to store and manage personal data, will ultimately hinge on ...

It's time for cloud customers to vote with their dollars to get the openness and portability they've been promised Interoperability is all the talk these days in the world of cloud computing. The ...

A group of companies and organizations have published a document that they call the Open Cloud Manifesto. It aims to provide an outline of core principles that are intended to boost interoperability ...

Vendors and industry groups are paying lip service to cloud interoperability. Will it lead to real results? Cloud computing is supposed to make IT more flexible, efficient and easier to manage. But ...

Interoperability is set to streamline the cloud approach for agencies across the board. But agencies must hone their cloud architectures to achieve it. When government agencies began shifting to cloud ...

For cloud computing to go mainstream, interoperability is key. A new open-source project from Red Hat called Deltacloud aims to bridge the gaps. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

This case study is part of an ongoing series developed in support of a larger text on interoperability by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser - Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems ...

A little over a year ago, Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic struck a 10-year strategic partnership, with the goal of building an “assembly line” of clinical AI tools. To support this, they’d need to have ...

The lack of established cloud standards and interoperability has made it difficult to move workloads between private clouds and public clouds and some experts say these problems hinder cloud adoption.

As the hype over cloud computing evolves into a more substantive discussion, one thing has become clear — customers do not want to be locked into a single cloud provider. They would like the freedom ...