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Getting Cloud Computing Right – What Questions To Ask?
Adam Bosnian, VP of Products, Strategy and Sales at Cyber-Ark gives in this articl a run-down on the risk and control aspects that cloud computing poses - and what important questions companies need to ask their cloud service provider. read more
It's Time To Embrace (And Prepare For) The Shift To The Cloud
It's Time to Embrace (and Prepare for) the Shift to the Cloud’ A viewpoint looking at the emergence of the cloud. With a focus on security, it discusses how the burden of maintaining a secure application is transferred from the software user to the services provider with a SaaS model.. read more
Securing The Cloud In The Digital Age
It’s interesting to note that Cloud computing has topped Gartner's “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010.” They define a strategic technology as “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.” Gartner is somewhat right here. The fundamental problem I have is that the industry has bucketed anything that can be loosely defined as cloud, virtual, consolidatory, or anything on the network in the same term being cloud. read more
Cloud Computing – The Real Business Benefits
The advent of Cloud Computing is often touted as a major step change in IT. Whilst it is still a relatively new concept, there are currently a number of providers of cloud computing in the marketplace who hail the service as the next big thing. read more
The Cloud: Changing How IT Must Deliver Services
Instant gratification may be the single greatest driver in the revolution that is fuelled by virtualization and delivering software and services from the Cloud. Today more and more vendors like ourselves are launching new services and feeding this desire. read more
A Decision Makers Guide To Managed Hosting And Cloud Computing
Organisations have never had so much choice about how to host their applications. From dedicated to shared hosting, private to public cloud, there’s an abundance of buzzwords and precious little straight talking. Here is a short synopsis aimed to help you to cut through the jargon, and help you find a solution that fits the needs of your business. read more
How To Move Your Small Business To The Cloud
Kate Craig-Wood explains in this article what cloud computing is, if your small to medium business should be thinking about it and shares her tips on how to move your small business to the cloud. read more
Cloud Computing - The Vision Of The Virtual Workstation Becomes Reality
Discussions about Cloud Computing are currently ever-present in the media. This is not just due to the pictorial name Cloud Computing but due to the question of security, coming up, when sensitive data, abstracted IT infratstructure, complete software packages and program environments, adapted dynamically to demands, are made available over the network. read more
Will Virtualisation & Cloud Computing Change How We Achieve Security?
The virtues of virtualisation and cloud computing will figure in most enterprise IT infrastructure discussions during 2010. Virtualisation has already proven its worth in delivering cost savings through server consolidation and better use of resources. Greater use of the technology across server infrastructures, in other areas of the IT stack, and at the desktop is widely anticipated. The uptake of Software-as-a-Service applications such as salesforce.com, and the success of IT service outsourcing demonstrate how centralised remote computing approaches can also provide more efficient ways to deliver technology resources to users, helping cloud computing to gain greater buy-in from corporate decision-makers. But as the industry moves towards a new IT infrastructure play, what are the implications on IT security? read more
Reaching Cloud Nine: A Practical How-To-Guide To Selecting The Right Partner
Over the past year, cloud computing has dominated IT discussions around the country, and rightly so. It offers significant advantages to businesses, especially as resources become more constrained and IT departments struggle to add business value while maintaining all their existing infrastructures. However, care must be taken as not all cloud-based services are created equal. Service delivery models vary greatly from hosted providers that replicate fragmented on-site technologies to sophisticated architectures; and benefits vary greatly too. read more
