The Cloud: A Place For Your Stuff Comedian George Carlin was not far off the mark when he dismissed the modern home as “a place for your stuff”. A place to keep your stuff, your personal files and data, is an important part of day to day personal computing. For those of us who do not work with IT professionals on a daily basis, our first introduction to Cloud Computing is often taking advantage of free or cheap on-line storage of our data, our “stuff”. Cloud storage presents a number of advantages as well as a few pitfalls for the
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The Cloud: A Place For Your Stuff
by Pete Knight on April 22, 2013
in Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Images, IT, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Office 365 vs Google Apps Battle: Who Will Dominate Enterprise Software?
by cloudtweaks on February 19, 2013
in Backups, Business, BYOD, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Google OS, SaaS, Storage, Technology, Trends
The Office 365 vs Google Apps Battle: Who Will Dominate Enterprise Software? Long ago in the days of yore, computing looked very different. Everyone had a PC that they were tethered to at their desk, and that PC almost always had Microsoft Office installed. Eventually, people were hard-pressed to do their job without it; it became an omnipresence, a giant. It’s no surprise that this occurred; Office was designed for the era of PCs, and it worked very well with them. But one day something happened: the cloud came along. And eventually, it started raining hard on the Microsoft Office
On-Demand Software Testing Moves To The Cloud
by cloudtweaks on January 15, 2013
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Security, Technology, Tools
On-Demand Software Testing Moves To The Cloud Although the cloud has become a standard delivery model for many hosted software applications, cloud-based software testing is just hitting its stride. Cloud-based software testing makes test environments and tools accessible to companies that lack the resources, physical space or ongoing need to develop and provision large-scale, internally based testing frameworks. With cloud-based testing, all running of test cases, defect reporting and other testing operations takes place in the cloud (either the firm’s own private cloud or a hosted cloud). Cloud-based testing facilitates communication and collaboration between geographically dispersed engineers and users. It
The History Of Virtualization
by cloudtweaks on December 3, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, Infographic, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology
The History Of Virtualization IT administrators realized very early that conventional methods of managing IT environments were no longer effective because of dynamic business requirements in agile environment. Demands for faster time to market, installation and up-gradation requests, need to quickly apply security patches to operating systems and applications, and many other management complications drove to a new strategy to endpoint and hosting server handling and management. Various IT challenges such as low server utilization, complex server-storage migration, inefficient server deployment, agile Business Requirements, increased total cost of ownership, server sprawl, high-availability requirements, disaster-recovery complexity, green IT requirements, automation, and policy driven management led to the innovation
The Great Arms Race For Security: Virtualization
by cloudtweaks on November 19, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends, Virtualization
The Great Arms Race For Security: Virtualization Since its infancy in the early seventies when the first computer virus was created, the malware and anti-malware business has grown into multi-billion dollar industries. No longer are script kiddies creating malware for notoriety, instead the malware industry is run by organized criminals who invest time and money in new technologies and methods to compromise systems for profit. The evolution of malware is the driver for the progress of security. Malware propagation has gone from floppy disks, to email attachments, and on to remote exploits of vulnerabilities. Malicious software itself has become more
Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: DoxOut
by John on November 11, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Lists, Mobile, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Top 10's, Uncategorized
Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: DoxOut ……An Open Source App That Can Marry Devices with No Boundaries Ever wondered why the document always comes after the file? And why the file as data stays away in a remote datacenter while the document, as the living part of the file, remains for perpetual exploitation on that limiting cocoon that is the personal computer? Each of these questions has an answer courtesy of DoxOut, a startup cloud company from Macedonia in southeast Europe. It is one of the select 5 in the shortlist of the Europe 2012 LaunchPad honors by Gigaom.
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Open Source
by cloudtweaks on August 28, 2012
in Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Host, IT, Open Source, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools, Trends
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Open Source Open source is a fairly new concept that has gained huge popularity in the field of IT in recent years. This is mainly because open-source software is free to use – its greatest advantage. As it is developed by a non-profit community, it has some disadvantages as well. Advantages Open-source software is free to use, distribute, and modify. It has lower costs, and in most cases this is only a fraction of the cost of their proprietary counterparts. Open-source software is more secured as the code is accessible to everyone. Anyone can fix bugs
The Vitality Of Seeding Openness Within The Cloud
by Humayun on July 31, 2012
in Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Open Source, Programming, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
The Vitality Of Seeding Openness Within The Cloud In the context of cloud investment and associated justifications, present day ventures are particular about three core concerns that are by no means novel and have haunted the IT industry since day one – agility, flexibility and customization. The parameters sound exceedingly familiar, especially to those who have had a taste of Linux, an operating system that takes pride in capitalizing on the said concerns and morphing them into benefits. Although contemporary cloud giants are burning midnight oil to deliver on the best of consumer-end innovations, monetary restrictions are clearly holding them
