Delivering modern electricity is a numbers game. From power plant output to consumer usage patterns, grid operators juggle a complex set of variables to keep the lights on. Cloud-based tools can help ...

Energy costs must really be getting to Google. In addition to its recently announced forays into geothermal energy and floating data centers, it’s also partnering with General Electric Co. to work on ...

Performance-boosting in-memory data grids, presently used in large-scale Web sites and high-throughput transactional systems, could play a key role in the next generation of cloud services Oracle ...