Singapore – March 8, 2011 (Tata Communications) – Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, today launches its InstaCompute cloud offering in Singapore, covering neighboring countries: Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. InstaCompute brings scalable cloud computing services to the region’s large and medium enterprises, the gaming industry, as well [...]

InformationWeek – The Defense Information Systems Agency, an agency that’s already among the government leaders in cloud computing, is considering offering platform-as-a-service to other military agencies to complement the infrastructure-as-a-service that it already offers via its Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) private cloud. Today, the PaaS offering is an early-stage pilot designed to meet a [...]

In my previous articles, I have covered what Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) are. It is now time to look at the 3rd category in Cloud Computing: Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS. Infrastructure as a Service was first known as Hardware as a Service in early 2006, but [...]