Before the cloud, we often rented servers from hosting companies. We still do, but now Amazon is coming after those businesses with Amazon Lightsail. Amazon plans on beating these businesses by ...

Why own server hardware? I've asked myself that question repeatedly in the last 15 years every time a machine failed or I needed an upgrade for various Web, mail, and database servers. I could have ...

Over the past few years, we've talked quite a lot about "the cloud," the difference between public and private clouds, and decisions CXOs make when growing or consolidating data centers. But we ...