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 ...

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 ...

Elastic's move to proprietary licensing for cloud providers has reignited the argument about what's fair when it comes to monetising open source software Elastic's licensing changes have reignited the ...

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 ...

Cloud computing happened. So what occurs now is this thing called application modernization where our apps have to become more native citizens of the cloud model. This involves an architectural shift, ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...