As companies move from in-house servers to a cloud service, security needs to be maintained. Companies need to make sure their data and important confidential information is secured from potential cyber attacks from a variety of forms of malicious programs. Security protocols must be adapted from their former conventional enterprise format to a cloud format. [...]
Concerned you missed a big story? We’ve got you covered. Every Friday we’ll be posting the top five trending articles about all things cloud. So sit back, relax and enjoy the top headlines of the week. 1. Could the mistakes in 1993 be repeated in 2013? Check out David Linthicum’s new column to find out why [...]
Did the Cloud Decide the Election? Many articles have been citing the fact that President Obama’s campaign for re-election was slightly more tech-savvy than his previous one. One of the biggest differences was his inclusion of cloud computing. President Obama’s campaign was mostly run on Amazon’s Web Services, allowing campaign organizers to access everything they needed instantly [...]
The basic idea of the cloud is always the same. It is a form of technology that allows enterprises, and small business alike, to run applications that are housed away from the enterprises itself. In spite of this shared basic definition, however, there are several different types of cloud computing. Web Based Cloud Computing. With this [...]
As businesses grow they tend to see an expansion of their IT services, and it is important they take steps to ensure that their IT systems remain compatible with their current needs. One of the most attractive solutions for expanding needs is turning applications over to the cloud. There are innumerable reasons that applications should run in [...]
Cloud solutions and services have grown to be a viable alternative for not only small businesses, but also large enterprise operations. Whether the cloud services are private or public, businesses have found that adopting this new approach to software and technology management has performed extremely well. There is a lot of talk about cloud service solutions, [...]
The “as a service” craze is in full swing as providers compete to get your business applications running on cloud services. While software as a service (SaaS) is well established, two somewhat new solutions are infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS). In a report from GigaOm Pro featured in a CNet article, IaaS and PaaS are competing heavily [...]