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What can you learn from a conversation with Japan's second-largest telco, which is also a cloud service provider? Plenty, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains how to improve your dev/test operations using cloud computing. Consider these practical steps to take as you meld, not replace, your existing environment with the cloud.

A cloud environment can serve a company's dev/test needs better than the traditional, internal option, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a breakdown of the key issues, from spiky usage to budget concerns, to consider.

When Microsoft's storage service for Sidekick users broke down, cloud computing questions sprang up -- both fair and unfair. CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses what can be learned from this outage and looks at the likely outcomes for Microsoft, users and the cloud ecosystem.

U.S. federal government IT groups could easily stall cloud computing efforts because of security concerns, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Instead, they are pushing for the benefits of cloud at a rapid pace -- accompanied by appropriate security measures.

New analysis of how much work companies are doing in the cloud via Amazon Web Services proves that cloud is already viable for much more than startup needs or "toy" applications, CIO.com's Bernard Golden argues.

VMware's vCloud Express allows a sort of cloud in the box for IT buyers. Here's how it stacks up to rival Amazon's Web Services.

Some people complain that the term "cloud computing" has become useless -- but even if we banished the words, IT would still face huge disruptions. So whether you call it banana computing or cloud computing, you'd better prepare for change, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

What have we learned from Google's latest outage? That 99.9 percent uptime doesn't matter during the other one-tenth of one percent.

Cloud computing will require IT to be masters of a private supply chain, argues CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's a look at the stack of services that must be in place for a cloud supply chain to operate.