The only way to keep your company's cloud operations secure is to watch over everything like a hawk. A new report from the Cloud Standards Customer Council can help your business keep all of your security concerns in check.

If your business isn't paying attention to social media spending, you could be letting your competitors get ahead of you in the marketplace. Here's why.

Instead, a hybrid approach, with a mix of public and private clouds, can better serve your company, says IT analyst Dan Maycock. A number of popular Web-based businesses learned that lesson in late October when a part of Amazon's public cloud went down.

Innovative, cool corporate data centers are springing up all over the world. Here's how they can help inspire your company, too. 

When your growing business needs an easy and free way to send invoices to your clients and customers, don't forget to look into the cloud. 

Just because 7,000 LinkedIn users say it's so, some of our favorite and longstanding office tools are now apparently on a death watch. I politely disagree. Here's why.

For cloud computing to gain its full potential, standards for compatibility and flexibility must be adopted soon so that users truly gain the ability to use the cloud's strengths to their advantage, says a longtime IT analyst.

Getting out of the office and going where your customers are will increase sales and worker productivity. It's just another little-discussed benefit of cloud computing for your business.

A new IDC forecast predicts that business spending on cloud computing globally will increase by a compounded 26.4 percent through 2016. Business leaders are apparently "getting" why the cloud is important. Here's why you need to be paying attention.

With Hurricane Isaac dumping its fury on New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, many businesses are likely taking advantage of the IT lessons learned after they were hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.