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| Assessing the Risks of Migrating Your Offering to the Cloud |
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| by Ian Gotts | |
| The numbers make the point. Migrating from the traditional on-premise model to cloud computing is a painful journey and costs you money. A story brings it to life: Looking at the resignation letter on my desk, I don’t understand how we got it so wrong. He was our top salesman and was the most vocal about offering a cloud solution alongside our existing product. And now he’s joining our biggest competitor, which hasn’t even considered the cloud. Why? | |
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Data Privacy and Compliance in the Cloud Preview  |
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| April 01 2013 |
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| An in-depth report on how cloud data encryption and tokenization satisfy industry mandates and legal regulations associated with protecting sensitive data in cloud SaaS applications. Read More: http://www.perspecsys.com/resources/resource-center/knowledge-series/data-privacy-compliance-in-the-cloud/ |
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| Data Control and Data Residency – Consider Your Options Carefully When Planning the Move to the Cloud |
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| January 31 2013 |
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| The benefits associated with adoption of the cloud are well documented and understood. Organizations cite tremendous cost savings, fast deployment times and streamlined application support & maintenance when compared to traditional on-premise software deployments. So what is holding many companies back from adopting the cloud?
Read more: http://www.perspecsys.com/data-control-and-data-residency-consider-your-options-carefully-when-planning-the-move-to-the-cloud/ |
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| Beyond PCI - Exploring Tokenization for Cloud Data Protection |
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| December 05 2012 |
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| Tokenization has a long history in the payment card industry as a standard approach for the protection of payment card information. Well-established industry standards for tokenization are published by the PCI Security Standards Council as part of the PCI DSS (data security standard).
More recently, a category of solutions called cloud data protection gateways has emerged to address the data residency, security and privacy compliance needs of organizations seeking to adopt public cloud technology, and tokenization is commonly offered – in addition to encryption – as core functionality in these solutions.
In this one-hour session, Coalfire, a leading PCI QSA, FedRAMP 3PAO, and HITRUST CSF Assessor will join PerspecSys to:
Highlight recent findings from a Coalfire perspective report on the top risks associated with the cloud,
Explain the use of tokenization to protect cloud application data, exploring its strengths and highlighting practical deployment considerations,
Share key evaluation criteria when assessing possible solutions.
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| Loud in the Cloud |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Learn how SuccessFactors customers achieved measurable results--download this free booklet. |
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| Summary of Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (NIST-December 2011) |
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| June 01 2012 |
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| Summary of Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (NIST-December 2011)
NIST has discussed following things:
-Benefits and drawbacks of public cloud services from a security and privacy perspective.
-Key security and privacy issues in public cloud computing and precautions
-Guidance on addressing security and privacy issues.
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| Can Clouds Plug the Ozone Hole? |
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| January 27 2012 |
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| Environmental protection has been a major concern over the past few years… and if it hasn’t been an issue for us, it probably should be. In any case, as an IT analyst it is important to know where we fit in and scrutinize our contribution to the environment from an analytical perspective, leaving all subjectivity aside. |
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| 10 Cloud Computing Uses, Day 1: Agriculture and Irrigation |
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| January 03 2012 |
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| Cloud computing can help farmers automate their business processes, gain efficiency through "just-in-time" resource utilization, and provide a path of least resistance for expansion.
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| Hybrid Cloud Computing |
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| December 06 2011 |
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| Hybrid means a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture.
A hybrid cloud is a composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud WHERE organization provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally AND remains unique entities but is bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability. |
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| The Pop-Up Cloud |
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| November 22 2011 |
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| How the cloud can support your limited life application needs! |
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| Your application would be a GREAT FIT in the Cloud if... |
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| November 02 2011 |
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| 3 Reasons why your application would be a great fit in the cloud. Even if your application does not satisfy these conditions, we offer alternative ways for you to gain from the benefits of Cloud. |
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| Your application may NOT YET be ready for the Public Commodity Cloud if... |
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| September 13 2011 |
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| This article highlights 5 reasons why your application may not yet be ready for the Public Commodity Cloud, and subsequently provides alternatives in the Enterprise Cloud space that solves these issues. |
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| Hybrid Cloudonomics - Part 2 |
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| July 28 2011 |
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| The first part of Weinman’s lecture discussing the basic “go to the cloud” and demonstrating cloud environments’ loads of different corporations’ web applications. In this part we will bring 6 scenarios presented by Weinman, each includes a brief analysis and proof of its cost and benefits. |
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| Cloud Savings Breakdown |
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| July 27 2011 |
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| Breakdown of cost savings per month - across public cloud options and private cloud. Average savings amount to approximately 58% per month... |
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| Hybrid Cloudonomics: a Lecture by Joe Weinman - Part 1 |
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| July 20 2011 |
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| Joe Weinman is well known in the cloud computing community as the founder of Cloudonomics. Presenting complex simulation tools, Weinman characterizes the sometimes counterintuitive business, financial, and user experience benefits of cloud computing including its on-demand, pay-per-use and other buisness aspects. Last month I had the pleasure of participating in Weinman’s webinar. Weinman discussed several interesting points which I would like to share with you. |
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| Does Cloud = Savings? |
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| June 21 2011 |
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| Will your business lower costs by using cloud services? That seems to be a key bottom-line question that CIOs — and their bosses — want to know. Why then is it so hard to get a simple answer? |
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| Cloud Customers Must Understand Weak Points |
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| May 11 2011 |
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| A panel of cloud computing advocates met the issue of the recent Amazon Web Services and Sony Playstation Network outages head on Wednesday at Interop 2011 in Las Vegas, a UBM TechWeb event. |
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| There's More than One Cloud in the Sky! |
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| May 02 2011 |
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| Due to recent, and highly publicized, outages, there has been much commentary about the “validity” of the cloud. On the flip side, there’s been some great commentary on how such outages can be minimized significantly by leveraging the cloud.
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| 3 dirty little cloud computing secrets |
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| April 28 2011 |
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| Every overhyped technology has good and bad aspects. The trouble is that few are willing to fill you in on the bad aspects. Doing so is often met with several dozen rounds of being called a hater. Cloud computing is no exception.
Here are the three major cloud computing secrets:
1. Some public cloud computing providers are falling and will fail.
2. Public clouds don't always save you money.
3. Using clouds can get you fired. |
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| The Underappreciated Benefits of Clouds |
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| March 24 2011 |
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| I am a little fascinated at the preponderance of focus the industry sometimes puts on the cloud attribute of elasticity. Sure, it is important, and in fact, a necessary attribute to truly consider something a cloud. It also makes for cool reading in case studies where companies have successfully harnessed elasticity in the cloud to reap business value. However, in my experience with enterprise users, many would benefit from a couple of less sexy, but equally important attributes of cloud: standardization and automation. |
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| Build it and they will come |
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| February 08 2011 |
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| Jevon's Paradox is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. When that increase is not accompanied by any more than organic growth in resource management, it can result in a resource crunch. Simon Wardley of the CSC Leadership Forum has often pointed out that, whilst cheaper operations costs and reduced capital spending should signal a reduction in TCO, the truth is quite the opposite. This argument is rather interesting on its own, but I see the greater issue for Cloud to be resource starvation. There are several parallels which reflect that, despite observed reductions in TCO, the resource crunch has resulted in both increased costs and reduced service. |
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| IBM Cloud Executive Roundtable |
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| April 06 2011 |
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| How can moving to a cloud computing environment help your business? And what is the future potential for cloud computing? IBM cloud computing executives, Ric Telford, Maria Azua, and Erich Clementi, share their vision for cloud computing in this round table discussion. |
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| Security and Cloud Computing: Can They Really Coexist? |
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| March 31 2011 |
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| Experts and IT executives discussed how businesses can truly achieve a level of security that will satisfy the skeptics in the organization and also protect sensitive corporate, customer, and business partner data in a distributed environment. View the panel discussion with Timothy Chou, Arnold Felberbaum, Chief IT Security and Compliance Officer at Reed Elsevier, Joseph A. Puglisi, former V.P. and CIO, EMCOR Group; Kurt Rao, Corporate VP, Information Technology Services, Time Warner; Oswin Deally, Senior Director, Enterprise Security Operations, Liberty Mutual; Gijo Mathew, VP, Security Product Marketing, CA Technologies, and Elizabeth Butwin Mann, CISO, Mycroft. |
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| Cloud Computing Security Risks; Private and Public Clouds |
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| December 14 2010 |
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| Cloud computing security issues are at the top of every cloud user's mind. Network professionals need to understand the scope of cloud computing security risks, and how threats should be handled.
In this video, senior site editor Rivka Little sits down with Drew Bartkiewicz, CEO of CyberRiskPartners. Bartkiewicz discusses the most prevalent security risks when it comes to public and private clouds, such as how other cloud users are compromised when it comes to public clouds. Bartkiewicz also addresses how cloud providers are addressing these cloud security issues in a public model vs. private model, compiling threat profiles based on the size of the cloud infrastructure
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| Minds for Sale |
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| October 27 2010 |
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| Jonathan Zittrain reprises his popular Minds for Sale talk at Harvard Law School. He presents the potential dark side of cloud labor, discusses how cloud computing is not just for computing anymore, and takes questions from the Harvard Law School Alumni Community. |
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| The CIO of Stratus on Why Cloud |
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| April 30 2010 |
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| The CIO at Stratus, Joe Graves, discusses how he transformed his cost infrastructure while increasing delivery to businesses using cloud computing. |
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| Uncovering Value in The Cloud and On Your Desktop |
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| December 11 2009 |
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| Uncovering Value in The Cloud and On Your Desktop. From Forrester's IT Forum 2009. |
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| World Economic Forum (Dubai) |
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| November 22 2009 |
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| CEO of CyberRiskPartners, LLC discusses the global impacts of the Internet and the implications for shared risk, self-governance, and the future of data privacy. |
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| The Director of the National Business Center on Cloud Computing |
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| October 22 2009 |
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| The Director of the National Business Center, Doug Bourgeois, discusses the service level benefits of Cloud Computing, security in the cloud, and governance and readiness. |
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| Competition, On Premise Cost Comparison & the Next Big Thing for NetSuite |
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| September 25 2009 |
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| Zach Nelson on Competition, On Premise Cost Comparison & the Next Big Thing for NetSuite |
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| The Web as Random Acts of Kindness |
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| September 22 2009 |
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| Cybersecurity Expert and Social theorist, Jonathan Zittrain, explains how the Internet is held together by millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust. |
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Data Privacy and Compliance in the Cloud Preview |
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| April 01 2013 |
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| An in-depth report on how cloud data encryption and tokenization satisfy industry mandates and legal regulations associated with protecting sensitive data in cloud SaaS applications. Read More: http://www.perspecsys.com/resources/resource-center/knowledge-series/data-privacy-compliance-in-the-cloud/ |
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| Loud in the Cloud |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Learn how SuccessFactors customers achieved measurable results--download this free booklet. |
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| Measuring the Business Benefits of Today's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Solutions |
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| November 01 2010 |
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| In 2009, THINKstrategies launched the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award program to recognize SaaS companies who are offering solutions which deliver measurable business benefits for their customers. Since the BoSS Award program was launched, there have been over sixty (60) award winners ranging from well-known brand-name companies to little known niche players. This report is a compilation of the BoSS Award winners. It clearly illustrates the tangible benefits which today’s SaaS solutions are delivering to organizations of all sizes across nearly every industry. These stories also demonstrate why the SaaS market is growing rapidly and fundamentally changing the nature of the software industry.
Go to http://www.saas-showplace.com/bestofshowplaceawards.html to learn more about the BoSS Awards program, apply for an Award, or read about the latest Award winners. |
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| Dispelling the Data Security and Privacy Myths About Cloud-Based, Software-as-a-Service CRM Solutions |
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| November 01 2010 |
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| The convergence of a series of major macro-market trends has sparked the emergence of a new generation of powerful and cost-effective, web-based solutions which are quickly becoming viable alternatives to traditional, on-premise software and systems, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. Yet, despite the growing examples of organizations gaining tangible and measurable business benefits from SaaS solutions, many corporate decision-makers are apprehensive about adopting these cloud-based services because of concerns regarding data privacy. They are particularly concerned about using services delivered by U.S.-based providers because of the ominous language contained in the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, commonly referred to as the U.S.A. Patriot Act. THINKstrategies believes these risks have been overly exaggerated and raise unfair questions about doing business with U.S.-based companies. Ironically, companies who avoid contracting with leading U.S. SaaS providers may be at greater risk of data privacy breaches by continuing to rely on traditional, on-premise software applications and locally hosted servers. This whitepaper examines the myths and realities of SaaS/Cloud Computing, the U.S.A. Patriot Act, and data privacy, with a focus on the CRM arena. It also recommends reasonable approaches to overcome common corporate concerns so businesses can fully capitalize on the potential benefits of SaaS/Cloud Computing. |
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Top Threats to Cloud Computing |
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| March 23 2010 |
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| The purpose of this document is to provide needed context to assist organizations in making educated risk management decisions regarding their cloud adoption strategies. In essence, this threat research document should be seen as a companion to "Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing". As the first deliverable in the CSA's Cloud Threat Initiative, this document will be updated regularly to reflect expert consensus on the probable threats which customers should be concerned about.
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Shedding Light on Cloud Computing - a Primer |
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| January 22 2010 |
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| This Primer provides a structured overview of what cloud computing is and what the potential benefits and risks are. In addition it explores how cloud computing will impact IT management and IT’s role in the organization as a service provider. |
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Trends in Electrical Efficiency in Computer Performance |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research is on the long term trends in the electrical efficiency of computation, which implies that mobile devices will rapidly become much more power-efficient and ubiquitous. The energy efficiency of computation has doubled about every 1.6 years since 1945 with remarkable consistancy - a trend that has important implications for mobile computing technologies. |
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The Energy and Climate Change Impacts of Different Music Delivery Methods |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. This research compares the energy and CO2 emissions associated with downloading music to those from buying a physical CD, concluding that downloading music yields 40-80% reductions compared to buying a CD. These findings demonstrate one concrete example of effectively using technology for improved environmental outcomes, i e, the benefits of dematerialization using IT. |
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Server Energy Efficiency Implications on Large Scale Datacenters |
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| August 27 2009 |
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| Intel and Microsoft funded a series of peer-reviewed research papers that assess the energy and environmental impacts of information technology in several unique cases. Trends in servers are pushing cloud computing providers and in-house data center operators to restructure their organizations, eliminate misplaced incentives, increase capital utilization, and change the ways they specify and purchase equipment. |
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An Essential Guide to Possibilities and Risks of Cloud Computing |
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| July 17 2009 |
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| A Pragmatic, Effective and Hype-Free Approach for Strategic Enterprise Decision Making. Cloud Computing is quite possibly the hottest, most discussed and often misunderstood concept in information technology (IT) today. Cloud Computing proposes to transform the way IT is deployed and managed, promising reduced implementation, maintenance costs and complexity, while accelerating innovation, providing faster time-to-market, and the ability to scale high-performance applications and infrastructures on demand. The goal of this papr is to provide a realistic perspective of the possibilities, benefits and risks of Cloud Computing, what to look for, what to avoid, and also some tips and best practices on implementation, architecture and vendor management strategies. It is important to consider all those aspects before you decide either to move or not to move your systems, applications, and/or data to the "Cloud", in a "hype free" approach. |
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| The Financial Value of On-Demand IT Services |
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| October 01 2008 |
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| The economic downturn experienced nationwide has tightened budgets and forced organizations to re-evaluate and streamline their solutions. The recent introduction of SaaS within the IT Service Desk space has enabled a tremendous opportunity for organizations of all sizes to implement a cost-effective, yet comprehensive, help desk application. This whitepaper discusses the ways in which On-Demand IT Services allow organizations to reap financial value from their IT department. |
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| Study Tour 2008: The Consumerization of Enterprise IT: Choices and Risks in Moving to the Cloud |
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| September 19 2008 |
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| The value of cunsumerized services, available to anyone, delivered from 'the cloud', is no longer in doubt. Millions of people and thousands of businesses are already on board. It is no longer a matter of if you will make use of them, but of when and for what. |
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Rackspace Green Survey |
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| June 19 2008 |
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| Learn more about the perceptions that our business customers have regarding environmental issues and the impact of IT on climate change. |
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| Study Tour 2007: Green IT: New Competencies for the 21st Century IT Leaders |
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| September 19 2007 |
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| In today's economy, few predictions seem more certain than the increasing need for more environmentally friendly business and technology strategies. Forward-thinking organizations are already preparing for the many challenges and opportunities of this new Corporate Social Responsibility frontier. |
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Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World |
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| February 15 2007 |
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| The amount of electricity used by servers and other Internet infrastructure has become an important issue in recent years as demands for new Internet services (like music downloads, video-on-demand, and Internet telephony) have become more widespread. One of the weaknesses in the literature on data center electricity use has been the lack of credible estimates of the aggregate power used by all servers and associated equipment in the U.S. and the world. The data on the floor area and power densities of data centers are anecdotal and limited by the proprietary nature of such data in most companies. Data on the installed base of servers are also closely held by the companies who track it, and server technology continues to change rapidly, necessitating constant updates to measurements of power used by particular server models. |
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| Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing |
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| August 15 2011 - ComputerWorld | ||||
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| Government cyber dangers – threats from the cloud and large suppliers |
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| August 15 2011 - PublicService.co.uk | ||||
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| Cloud Computing and Clean Energy |
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| August 15 2011 - RenewablesBiz | ||||
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| The 4 biggest threats facing the cloud |
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| August 12 2011 - CNN Money | ||||
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| Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in |
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| April 25 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| Cloud computing and Internet use suck energy, emit CO2, says Greenpeace |
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| April 22 2011 - LA Times | ||||
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| How Dirty is your Data |
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| April 22 2011 - Greenpeace | ||||
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| Risk Management in Cloud Computing |
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| April 17 2011 - PC World | ||||
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| Cisco's New Data Center Offers Cloud Capabilities, Green IT |
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| April 15 2011 - eWeek | ||||
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| How can 'cloud computing' benefit small businesses? |
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| April 13 2011 - bytestart.co.uk | ||||
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| Businesses adopting cloud computing for increased flexibility? |
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| April 12 2011 - Experian QAS | ||||
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| The Real Cloud Imperative Is Greater Simplicity |
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| April 07 2011 - InformationWeek | ||||
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| Computing in the 'Clouds' Offers Conveniences |
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| April 06 2011 - The Pilot | ||||
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| How cloud computing can reduce your carbon footprint |
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| April 04 2011 - computing.co.uk | ||||
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| Help - my desktop in the cloud has evaporated! |
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| March 24 2011 - The Register | ||||
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| Doing business in the clouds |
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| March 21 2011 - Business Review | ||||
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| Three major risks of Cloud computing |
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| March 07 2011 - CIO.com Australia | ||||
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| Managing Your Cloud Computing Risks |
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| March 03 2011 - CTOEdge | ||||
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| Salesforce.com: Less Carbon, New Features and 'The Facebook Imperative' |
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| March 03 2011 - PCMag.com | ||||
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| Cloud Computing Won't Boost Productivity Much, Study Suggests |
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| February 28 2011 - infoTech | ||||
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