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Can You Retrieve Your Data After Terminating Your Contract?
Can You Retrieve Your Data After Terminating Your Contract? Consider the following scenarios. Scenario 1: You have a great cloud service provider and have moved all your business data there. One fine morning, you get a notice stating that your provider is going bankrupt and will soon be terminating all contracts. Now, will you get [...]
Grow Your Business By Moving To The Clouds
Grow Your Business By Moving To The Clouds Cloud computing is becoming more and more popular in business due to the practical solutions it offers to many business problems. Many of these problems include inhibition, security concerns, and space restrictions. Cloud computing aims to provide a solution to such business dilemmas, but it is not [...]
How The Cloud Broker Can Help Your Business
How The Cloud Broker Can Help Your Business The dictionary defines a “broker” as “a person who functions as an intermediary between two or more parties in negotiating agreements, bargains, or the like.” Almost all of us, at some point in our lives, have utilized the services of a broker. From renting apartments to trading [...]
Cloud Can Do Anything – But Can It Do Better?
Cloud Can Do Anything – But Can It Do Better? Forbes Magazine, typically an exponent of the cloud computing movement, recently questioned the trend in an article whose title goes straight for the jugular. Such a critical consideration of cloud and its import is in due order. As the piece points out, the geeks and [...]
Why Simple Solutions Are Better For The Cloud
Why Simple Solutions are Better for the Cloud I came across this article from TechCrunch How To Scale A $1 Billion Startup: A Guide From Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger and it reminded me of one thing I have been evangelizing about cloud and IT overall is that simple solutions with less parts are better. Here is Instagram [...]
Cloud Computing Guidelines From The Information Systems Audit And Control Association
Cloud Computing Guidelines From The Information Systems Audit And Control Association Among the slew of guidelines on cloud computing floating around, the recent one published by industry body Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) has a lot of credibility. Established in 1965, the association has a long history of delivering guidance to its huge [...]
Research: New Requirements For Security And Compliance Auditing In The Cloud
Whitepaper Research: New Requirements for Security and Compliance Auditing in the Cloud “New Requirements for Security and Compliance Auditing in the Cloud“ Learn how to prepare for cloud computing and how to manage IT security and compliance within the cloud. With the proliferation of cloud computing, how does an organization manage IT security, compliance, [...]
Basic Checklist For Cloud Computing Customers
Basic Checklist For Cloud Computing Customers Transition to the cloud could be one of the most important decisions you make in your IT infrastructure management. Thus, it is important that you do it the right way. I have collected a list of the basic things you should consider, before signing a contract with your cloud [...]
Foreign Invasion Through Cloud Computing
Foreign Invasion Through Cloud Computing “India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.” [...]
Demand For Standards—Interoperability To Fuel Converged Cloud Growth
Demand For Standards—Interoperability To Fuel Converged Cloud Growth According to cloud computing experts at IEEE, the biggest barrier to cloud services adoption is not cloud security or privacy fears, but concerns about service interoperability. According to Dr. Alexander Pasik, CIO at IEEE and a former Gartner analyst: Security is certainly a very important consideration, but it’s [...]
Free Ebook: Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies
Free Ebook: Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies® Read Cloud Services Brokerage for Dummies® to learn about the state of cloud computing today, how CSBs add business value, what’s important to think about when considering a CSB, and predictions about what’s to come. You know firsthand that the challenges of integrating, transforming, managing, and securing your [...]
The Government And The Cloud: Defining The Relationship
The Government and the Cloud: Defining the Relationship They say change comes slowly or not at all. The cloud computing movement is thankfully maintaining a slow crawl over the powers-that-be in our governments at every level: local, state, national, even international. (But let’s save the complex, meaty discussion of the global cloud for another piece.) [...]
Cloud Infographic: The CSC Cloud Usage Index
Cloud Infographic: The CSC Cloud Usage Index Some very interesting statistics put together by the people over at CSC . Source: csc.com
Is Cloud Computing A Lunch Break Creation?
Is Cloud Computing a Lunch Break Creation? There have been allegations that “cloud computing” is just a marketing term, with the underlying principles and technologies having long existed. Personally speaking, while I do believe that a lot of cloud computing as it exists today did exist before Ramnath Chellappa used the term in a 1997 [...]
