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| Delivering Highly Available Shadow Sites in the Cloud |
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| How Foresight Relies on Microsoft's Azure Cloud to Reduce Security Vulnerability and Deliver High Availability to Websites Large and Small | |
| by Whitney Mountain | |
| When it comes to cloud computing, security issues can scare many companies so much that they become afraid of their own shadows. But a company called Foresight is taking the shadows of their clients’ websites and making friends out of foes ... | |
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| Is There Auditible Security in the Cloud? |
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| Cloud Computing in Political Campaigns | |
| by Preston Williams III | |
| An extensive discussion about various platforms, architectures, and application layers as well as corporate protocols and policies provides a lot of food for thought as we consider how, when, and if we should deploy a public or private cloud in our enterprise. | |
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| Cloud Computing and Mobility |
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| Adjusting in a New World -- From Threat to Ally | |
| by Christopher Clark | |
| One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost and security intersect on a scale larger than any other IT initiative for executive management. Often times IT is a secondary priority amid the corporate agenda. But getting the IT operations aligned with the strategy is pivotal to the long term growth and viability of a company. | |
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| Big Data Explosion--Deriving Insights |
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| by Amit Manghani | |
| The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world continues to accelerate and surprise us in terms of sheer volume. The data deluge is happening everywhere and is not only restricted to niche sources. It encompasses sensor and machine data, transactional data, metadata, and social network data as evidenced by the examples highlighted below. | |
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| Cloud Computing and the Patriot Act |
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| by Jonathan Gershater | |
| A careful reading of the Patriot Act does not give the Federal government, unfettered carte-blanche access to data stored in organizations’ databases. Users can protect their information stored by cloud computing providers, using encryption. Encryption modifies the storage of data so that it can only be read by users with software and encryption keys to decrypt the data. | |
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| Cloud Wars, Part I: Framing the Standardization in Cloud Computing |
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| Standards and Standardization Practices in Cloud Computing | |
| by Tuomas MT Nurmela & Alex Krikos | |
| This article frames the international cloud SDO environment and process, categorizes cloud standards, and provides an example of the use of categorization. | |
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| The Eucalyptus Open-Source Private Cloud |
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| by Yohan Wadia | |
| A Eucalyptus private cloud is deployed across an enterprise’s “on premise” data center infrastructure and is accessed by users over enterprise intranet. Thus, sensitive data remains entirely secure from external intrusion behind the enterprise firewall. | |
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| Cloud Computing Technology with BPOS and Windows Azure |
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| by Nidhi Bansal | |
| We see cloud computing offerings today that are suitable to host enterprise architectures. But while these offerings provide clear benefits to corporations by providing capabilities complementary to what they have, the fact that they can help to elastically scale enterprise architectures should not be understood to also mean that simply scaling in this way will meet twenty-first-century computing requirements. | |
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| Cloud Computing and Chargeback Models |
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| by Mitesh Soni | |
| Chargeback and metering refers to the ability of an IT organization to track and measure the IT expenses per business unit and charge them back accordingly. According to Role, chargeback includes different dimensions. | |
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| Migrating to SaaS Readiness |
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| by Fred Landis | |
| To capitalize on the trend to SaaS/Cloud, traditional enterprise ISVs moving to a SaaS model must modify their organizations’ culture, support, business and go-to-market models. Given the growth in the market, most would see this as a fait accompli for vendors, but in reality it is much more difficult to execute than to propose. | |
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| How Cloud Computing Paradigm Can Meet the Challenges of Adaptive Security Systems? |
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| by Irina Neaga | |
| The cloud computing model should drive and potentially apply for the design and development of the next generation of adaptive security systems. This essay shows some conceptual ideas and directions based on systems engineering methods and architecting principles. | |
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| Turning the cloud upside down |
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| by Michael Krumpe | |
| For all the hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in the cloud industry, it’s more worthwhile to think about the billions that aren’t being spent yet – and why. Two major concerns are holding many companies and organizations back from committing to the cloud. | |
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| Tracking System Solutions' Decision to Deploy on Virsto vDisks |
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| How a Focus on Storage Optimization Enables Aggressively Priced Cloud Offerings from SSI | |
| by Eric Burgener | |
| Because storage makes up such a large part of the costs of any cloud-based infrastructure, it is an obvious place to look for cost reductions. System Solutions, Inc. (SSI), a King of Prussia, Pa.-based IT solutions provider, took that advice to heart in building MySecureCloud, a hosted infrastructure solution targeted at small and medium businesses (SMBs). | |
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| Considering Cloud Appliances for Private Cloud Deployments |
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| Would you prefer to build a cloud from components or plug it in and go? | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| Once a private cloud is being considered, there are two basic approaches to deployment: Build your own cloud or purchase a cloud appliance. This article discuss both options with a focus on building cloud appliances. | |
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| Cloud Security Starter Kit - Overview |
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| Cloudbook explores how to get started with cloud security | |
| by Jeff Vance | |
| Security continues to be the number one obstacle to cloud adoption. Yet, despite widespread security concerns, cloud computing is taking off. The question now is not “will my organization move to the cloud?” Rather, it is “when?” This is the first story of a series of stories where Cloudbook will explore how to get started with cloud security. What are the bare essentials? How do you merge traditional controls with advanced technologies like DLP (Data Loss Prevention) and risk scoring? How will you convince auditors that your cloud projects are as secure as your on-premise ones? | |
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| Putting Data-as-a-Service to Work Improving Data Quality |
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| How StrikeIron Enables DaaS Best Practices | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| With all the concern around data security in the cloud, another facet of data –its quality – often gets overlooked. Yet, if inaccurate data is being stored, then what’s the point? As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. This story covers how DaaS can improve data quality, especially with customer records. | |
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| Top Ten Things to Consider About Cloud Services |
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| Find the right services for your cloud computing project | |
| by Edward Wustenhoff | |
| This article discusses the top 10 things to consider about cloud services. It focuses on Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and primarily on the three most important characteristics of any Cloud Service Provider: functionality, quality and price. | |
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| Is Force.com Your Key to the Cloud Kingdom? |
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| The reality of salesforce.com as seen through the eyes of a partner | |
| by Alok Misra & Ian Gotts | |
| In this article, we provide a high-level introduction to the reality and misconceptions around salesforce.com and its work culture, as seen through the eyes of a partner. The article is extracted from our recent book, “Thinking of … Force.com as your key to the Cloud Kingdom? Ask the Smart Questions,” which also features a Foreword from Parker Harris, co-founder of salesforce.com. | |
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| Migrating JDA to the Cloud |
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| With Burstorm’s Help JDA Deploys Its Private Cloud At Layered Tech | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| This story describes JDA's decision to move it's private cloud offering to Layered Tech, and Burstorm's role in the selection process. | |
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| Cloud-as-a-Tier |
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| Building an Enterprise Architecture For Secure High-Performance Hybrid Cloud Storage | |
| by Ian Howells | |
| The only thing predictable about storage requirements is that they will be unpredictable and much bigger than you could possibly imagine. To manage this growth, the focus must shift to managing “Big Content” ... | |
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| Tracking System Solutions' Decision to Deploy on Virsto vDisks |
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| How a Focus on Storage Optimization Enables Aggressively Priced Cloud Offerings from SSI | |
| by Eric Burgener | |
| Because storage makes up such a large part of the costs of any cloud-based infrastructure, it is an obvious place to look for cost reductions. System Solutions, Inc. (SSI), a King of Prussia, Pa.-based IT solutions provider, took that advice to heart in building MySecureCloud, a hosted infrastructure solution targeted at small and medium businesses (SMBs). | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Migrating JDA to the Cloud |
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| With Burstorm’s Help JDA Deploys Its Private Cloud At Layered Tech | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| This story describes JDA's decision to move it's private cloud offering to Layered Tech, and Burstorm's role in the selection process. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Smart Cloud Computing Takes Risk Out of Viral Marketing Campaigns |
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| How AKQA Utilizes Joyent's Cloud to Launch and Manage Viral Marketing Campaigns | |
| by Jeff Vance | |
| When successful advertising campaigns go viral, even cloud-based applications struggle to accommodate demand spikes and traffic bursts. Global advertising agency AKQA turned to Joyent and its Smart Computing technology to design campaigns for “Facebook scale.” | |
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| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
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| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
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| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| SOASTA on Amazon: Game Changing Performance Testing |
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| by Vince Vasquez | |
| In a very real way, SOASTA and Amazon grew up together: SOASTA with its game-changing performance testing application CloudTest, and Amazon with its game-changing Cloud Computing environment EC2. Together, they are helping companies like Intuit answer the crucial question of whether their Web sites can withstand huge increases in traffic, and generate the information necessary to optimize their architecture and implementation. | |
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| Cloud Backup and Recovery for Small Businesses |
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| HybridgeIT Deploys Zmanda Cloud Backup: Zmanda Leverages Amazon S3. The Combination Provides a Modern Alternative to Backup and Recovery. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| Companies like HybridgeIT, which provides virtual IT services for small businesses, are deploying Zmanda Cloud Backup to revolutionize disaster recovery plans. In turn, Zmanda is leveraging Amazon S3 storage cloud to store backup archives of its customers. What this all means for small businesses is that they can now backup, archive, access, and restore years of their company’s critical data - on demand - via the cloud. | |
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 Pabst Brewing Company - Recipe for Cloud Success - A Case Study  |
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| June 05 2013 |
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| iDentitySential and AppZero™ team up for a 6-week migration of the PBC datacenter to the Rackspace cloud – enterprise applications identified, extracted, and moved in less than 1 hour. |
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The Inevitable Cloud Outage: 5 Key Essentials to Safe Guard Your Application |
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| June 04 2013 |
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| A while back, I was starting up an EC2 instance on the AWS cloud when it entered an endless restart loop. All the application deployment efforts we’d made (installation and service configuration) over two weeks just went down the drain. So we called support. The support rep redirected us to his team leader who simply told us that, as indicated in the SLA, we had to abide by the shared responsibility model and they were not liable for our loss.
The Shared Responsibility Model - Shared Responsibility refers to the responsibility of the cloud vendor, as well as the cloud consumer, to make sure that everything is backed up and appropriately configured to avoid situations like the one we were in. In short, it was our fault for not having better programmed our architecture.
Don’t get caught with your pants around your ankles like we did. We lost weeks of work because our instance stopped working but it could have been prevented with better architecture and processes. The following are key important points that must be considered in order to achieve high availability in the cloud. |
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| 5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration |
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| May 14 2013 |
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| The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds while striving to achieve interoperability values within their systems. This article aims to answer some of the questions that arise when managing cloud workloads. |
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| Email encryption process in Hosted Exchange |
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| April 24 2013 |
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| The blog post describes the email encryption basics in Hosted Exchange. |
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| Healthcare Data on the Cloud – The Reality of Sensitive Information Online |
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| April 10 2013 |
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| The convenience, efficiency and cost benefits cloud computing offers organizations has made moving healthcare data and records to the cloud make sense for hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. Security and data breaches are a concern for any industry utilizing the cloud, but healthcare unfortunately seems to be particularly vulnerable to attacks. The Washington Post recently reported that The Department of Homeland Security is fearful that the health industry is “inviting” an attack with its out-of-date policies and lack of oversight. Read More |
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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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Critical Questions To Ask Cloud Protection Gateway Providers Preview |
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| March 14 2013 |
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| Security and IT professionals need to focus on critically analyzing vendors’ marketing and solution claims to ensure the technologies offered truly deliver the data privacy, security, and compliance results needed by their organizations. This paper, from cloud security provider, PerspecSys, helps guide the analysis.
Read More: http://www.perspecsys.com/resources/resource-center/knowledge-series/critical-questions-to-ask-cloud-protection-gateway-providers/ |
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| Cloud Computing - Survey of Optimization Problems |
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| February 15 2013 |
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| A survey of Optimization problems in the Cloud Computing space. |
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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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| Who Controls the Cloud Market - Providers or Consumers? |
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| January 28 2013 |
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| We first went from reserving cloud capacity to securing capacity on-demand, and then we even started to bid for unused capacity in the spot market – all in an effort to decrease cost in the cloud. Can we take this one step further? Instead of us bidding for capacity, wouldn't it be interesting if we can get providers to bid for our demand? |
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| The Cloud in HP’s Cloud (Part 2): HP Discover, the Enterprise and AWS Cloud |
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| January 09 2013 |
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| Last month I attended HP Discover (disclosure: my participation was funded by Ivy World). The IT war already started however HP stands still not taking initiatives and real risks as true leaders should take. At the three-day conference I learned why some companies don’t last and why this IT giant is at a great risk of losing in this new era IT battle. This is a story of a lasting company that might have already lost. |
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| 5 Enterprise Cloud Predictions for 2013 |
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| January 01 2013 |
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| I believe that this is the year when the enterprise will find its way to the cloud.
The mega Internet sites and applications are the new era enterprises. These will become the role models for the traditional enterprise. IT needs remain the same with regards to scale, security, SLA, etc. However, the traditional enterprise CIO has already set the goal for next year: 100% efficiency.
The traditional CIO understands that in order to achieve that goal, IT will need to start and do cloud, make sure that IT resources are utilized right, and that his teams move fast. |
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| The cloud: inevitable, but not ubiquitous from HP (Brochure) |
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| December 11 2012 |
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| HP has helped many businesses implement the cloud to achieve real benefits. Here are a few examples:
• Mahindra created a shared services environment using HP CloudSystem to enable nimble deployment of application
platforms for different R&D needs.
• SFR quickly brought to market a complete infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform based on HP CloudSystem.
• Using HP CloudSystem, Hostworks created a highly resilient shared services facility to accommodate its customer base
load. Hostworks can now implement a common virtualized infrastructure that scales quickly to deliver new programs.
• Using a private cloud transformation based on HP CloudSystem, FICO created a global product development center of excellence. |
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| Newvem Shines at Amazon AWS re:Invent Conference |
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| December 10 2012 |
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| Last week the Newvem team participated in the first Amazon AWS re:Invent Conference. According to some leading analysts and bloggers, this was one of the most momentous technology conferences in the last few years. For Newvem it was the second most important milestone since the company was born. |
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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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Newvem Is Proud to Announce the Release of General Availability!!! |
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| November 15 2012 |
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| Newvem GA completely disrupts the belief that cloud usage analytics ends with cost savings. A major component of the GA is connecting cloud usage with specific business activities and entities such as business divisions, accounts, and even customers. Newvem now offers better visibility into the relationship between business and cloud infrastructure, thus helping our customers focus on profit. |
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| ClickSoftware – Great Case of an AWS Cloud Adoption: Part 1, Operations |
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| November 14 2012 |
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| My first interview was with Mr. Korach, discussing operation and his “cloud day” as the senior DevOps of this cloud service leader. ClickSoftware started utilizing the AWS cloud for non-critical services such as demos and proof of concepts for new opportunities, customers’ training and development staging environments. According to Mr. Korach, there is a clear separation between the company’s internal needs on the Amazon cloud and the cloud service offering. The former are consumed by the specific provisioned and relevant department (Sales, Professional Services, R&D) in the organization, and are managed and monitored by the company IT department. The latter (i.e., the company’s Cloud services offerings) needs are deployed, managed and monitored by Korach’s DevOps team. |
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| Newvem Introduces Its “Cloud Smart Meter” iOS App for iPhones and iPads |
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| November 05 2012 |
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| Newvem is proud to announce the release of our first iOS application. The “Cloud Smart Meter,” for AWS, is a native iPad and iPhone application that enables chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers to gain clear visibility into their AWS costs, risks, and assets while collaborating with their teams and managing their clouds from anywhere and at any time.
With CIO and IT managers increasingly using mobile devices to manage and monitor their day to day tasks, Newvem’s “Cloud Smart Meter” gives cloud professionals much-needed bottom-line visibility and key performance indicators to manage, collaborate, and track your cloud usage. Together with Newvem Analytics, “Cloud Smart Meter” analyzes your cloud usage and reveals insights so that CIOs and IT managers can quickly identify issues such as unexpected trends in costs, operational risks, and inventory as well as act on Newvem‘s recommendations to correct these issues. |
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Tracking sub-projects with cloud process management solutions |
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| September 18 2012 |
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| This is a blog entry that explains a real-life case of a project manager task: to track deliverables from multiple sub-projects in a form of a single report.
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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Introducing AppZero Application Migration |
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| June 03 2013 |
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| AppZero is the fastest and most flexible way to move workloads across clouds and datacenter servers, without re-engineering, re-installation, or lock-in. AppZero is the only tool on the market that lets you move to the cloud and "up-level" to a new version of an OS, in one easy step. |
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Up-level Application Migration -- move from WS2003 to WS2012 in Minutes |
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| May 27 2013 |
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| Watch a video demonstration: Up-level Application Migration -- move from WS2003 to WS2012 in Minutes |
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| Piston Enterprise OS™ Demo |
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| March 01 2012 |
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| The World's First Cloud Operating System Built on OpenStack™ |
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| Interview with Christine Crandell on B2B Marketing Trends |
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| September 19 2011 |
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| 4 minute interview by Erick Mott of CreatorBase with Christine Crandell on B2B marketing trends. |
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| Predicting Costs on Amazon Web Services |
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| August 29 2011 |
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| Learn how-to predict costs quickly and accurately. The Senior Technical Evangelist at Amazon presents his 5Ms model, gives specific application examples, and then prices the applications using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. |
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| 3 Steps to Becoming a Social Enterprise |
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| June 16 2011 |
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| The Salesforce.com CEO keynoted at the company's Cloudforce event in Boston. |
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| Open Cloud as a Set of Tools, Standards, and Community |
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| June 09 2011 |
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| The CTO at Rackspace, John Engates, discusses open cloud as a set of tools, standards, and community at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference. |
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| Cloudscaling on Cloud Networking and Arista |
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| May 03 2011 |
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| The Founder of Cloudscaling discusses Arista Networks and the philosophy behind building cloud networking. |
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| AppFirst - Problem Resolution with the Foundation of Complete Information |
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| April 28 2011 |
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| The CMO & Product Manager at AppFirst, Pamela Roussos, gives a presentation at the Under the Radar conference on Problem Resolution with the Foundation of Complete Information. |
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| Supply Chain Management Migrates to the Cloud Via the Channel |
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| April 12 2011 |
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| Joseph King, SVP JDA Managed Services, discussed how JDA selected Layered Tech as its cloud provider and Burstorm's role in this selection process. |
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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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Critical Questions To Ask Cloud Protection Gateway Providers Preview |
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| March 14 2013 |
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| Security and IT professionals need to focus on critically analyzing vendors’ marketing and solution claims to ensure the technologies offered truly deliver the data privacy, security, and compliance results needed by their organizations. This paper, from cloud security provider, PerspecSys, helps guide the analysis.
Read More: http://www.perspecsys.com/resources/resource-center/knowledge-series/critical-questions-to-ask-cloud-protection-gateway-providers/ |
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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| Meeting the Challenge of Enterprise Cloud Development: 7 Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud |
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| July 27 2012 |
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| "Meeting the Challenge of Enterprise Cloud Development: 7 Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud"
A major transformation is underway. What historically operated behind firewalls is migrating to public and private Clouds.
Across these interwoven Clouds, business solutions must interoperate, share data and deliver value to customers, suppliers and other business partners as the developing Boundary-free Enterprise™ emerges and evolves. Read this white paper to learn how to manage these multiple hybrid Clouds through ongoing, continuous delivery of new functionality and the integration of other Cloud solutions. |
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| Federated Identity Management in Cloud Computing |
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| April 25 2012 |
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| “Identity” consists of a “set” of information based on context, allied with a definite entity (End User or System). Identity Management should include: Identity Provisioning, De-Provisioning, Identity Information Security, Identity Linking, Identity Mapping, Identity Federation, Identity Attributes Federation, Single Sign On, Authentication and Authorization.
With the adoption of cloud services, the organization’s trust boundary has become dynamic. It has moved beyond the control of IT. Identity & Access Management is a critical requirement considering data sensitivity and privacy of information have become increasingly an area of concern in cloud. |
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| Tokenization for Cloud Data Protection |
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| January 10 2012 |
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| This paper offers a high-level overview of tokenization as a data protection and obfuscation technique in the cloud. It also discusses the PCI Data Security Council’s tokenization standards. |
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| Intel Cloud Builders Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms |
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| May 25 2011 |
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| Cloud on-boarding with CloudSwitch.
For enterprise IT organizations who are looking to securely utilize public clouds and existing data center infrastructure, the decision to use a cloud for the delivery of IT services is best done by starting with the knowledge and experience gained from previous work.
This reference architecture outlines how to extend the data center into the cloud using CloudSwitch software with Intel Xeon processor 5600 series servers. This paper, which includes detailed scripts and screen shots, should significantly reduce the learning curve for building and operating your first cloud computing infrastructure. |
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| eBook: How to Run a Successful Cloud Pilot |
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| March 09 2011 |
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A Practical How-To Guide for Enterprises
How will you know if the cloud will work for you? You've been thinking about cloud computing, but you're not sure it's a good fit for your organization. While there's lots of hype and discussion around the cloud, the only way you can evaluate it for real is to run a pilot with enterprise applications and visibility for all your stakeholders. A well-managed pilot with clear goals and meaningful results can provide much-needed clarity. This eBook guides you through the process of running a successful cloud pilot, one that meets business requirements while addressing the concerns of networking, security, and operations management.
In this eBook, you'll learn:
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IaaS Builder's Guide - Network Edition |
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| March 08 2011 |
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| This new technical whitepaper is a follow on to Cloudscaling’s IaaS Builder's Guide and talks at an architectural level about building scalable networking for infrastructure clouds. Infrastructure clouds are complex and challenging engineering problems. Covering the topic in detail would take years and several books. Meanwhile, the best practices and state-of-the-art proceeds apace. This 30 page technical piece goes into some of the details while remaining broad to share information and foment discussion. |
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Uncover the Benefits of Virtualization |
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| February 02 2011 |
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| BMC Software’s IT organization, like many, began its virtualization and automation journey with some key objectives. They wanted to help IT become more responsive to business needs, and they wanted to better understand how the assets that the IT organization manages
support the business. In this paper, Mark discusses significant side benefits that far exceed the objectives of their original plan. These benefits include dramatic labor savings and productivity improvements through automation — achievements that help make
our software developers much more responsive to business needs at a time when all IT organizations must be especially focused on staying ahead of the curve. |
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A Healthy Data Center Begins with a Wellness Self-Assessment |
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| February 02 2011 |
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| If you’ve got a headache, it’s usually easy to locate the cause of your pain and take a pain reliever to ease your discomfort. If the problem persists, your doctor can give you a checkup to help identify the cause. You may even be able to take certain actions to prevent the headache from occurring. In many ways, managing your health is like maintaining a data center. You need to identify the source of “pain” in the data center, and then take steps to alleviate that pain. |
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CIO to CIO: Reaping the Benefits of Business Service Management |
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| February 02 2011 |
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| Can you imagine saving more than five million dollars by reusing servers and dramatically reducing lead times for asset provisioning? What if you could also reduce power consumption and the requirements for floor space by about 20 percent? The IT organization at BMC Software has achieved these results and more with Business Service Management (BSM), a comprehensive and unified platform for running IT. We have been able to meet our management challenges while achieving tremendous cost savings and improvements in IT effectiveness. |
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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery |
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| December 08 2010 |
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| Many corporate IT departments have used tape technology for data backup and recovery for years. It may be time for a change. Terms such as backup service, cloud backup and data vaulting describe the process of electronically sending data off-site, where it can be protected from hardware failure, unplanned downtime, loss, and other systems risks. In today’s business environment, continuous access to corporate data is a vital step to supporting your external customers and internal users. Gaining access to and providing availability of this data is crucial to support your business continuity plan in the event of a disaster. |
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| Moving to the Cloud: A Starter Kit |
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| November 01 2010 |
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You’re ready to move to the cloud, now what?Most enterprises are now including the cloud in their IT computing strategies. The benefits of fast provisioning and pay-on-demand are extremely compelling, but the cloud remains a new and often confusing set of choices for most organizations. In this starter kit, we help de-mystify moving to the cloud and provide several practical tools to put you on the right path. What you'll get in the starter kit:
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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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| Using the Cloud for Enterprise Applications |
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| October 30 2010 |
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How Hard Is It Really?
By providing an easy, reliable way to run applications in the cloud, CloudSwitch opens up new possibilities for IT organizations trying to increase agility and reduce capital costs.
This paper puts the CloudSwitch breakthrough in perspective by examining current barriers facing IT departments that want to run current applications in a public cloud. It focuses on four key steps that are often responsible for delaying or even blocking many cloud adoption projects:
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Cloud Computing: How Client Devices Affect the User Expereince |
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| October 18 2010 |
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| The growth of Cloud Computing, along with the consumerisation of IT, is driving enterprises to support a compute continuum in which users will increasingly be able to access applications and services using a spectrum of client devices in a variety of form factors. Whilst mobile business PCs remain employees' primary client devices, other devices such as smartphones and tablets are being enabled. Providing employees with the freedom to use these devices, in addition to mobile business PCs, further enhances mobility and increases productivity. This paper presents the results of research and analysis to compare the user experience with different client devices when accessing a range of cloud-based applications to illustrate their value with respect to mobility and productivity. |
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| CloudSwitch Architecture Overview White Paper |
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| October 18 2010 |
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| This paper illustrates how CloudSwitch software bridges the enterprise data center with cloud computing environments, extending enterprise security and control into the cloud. Using CloudSwitch, existing applications run securely in a cloud environment while remaining tightly integrated with data center tools and processes, and managed as if they were running locally. The result is a single unified environment where external resources can be provisioned quickly and applications running in the cloud can utilize common resources in the data center. |
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Comparing Cloud and On-Site CRM (for Small Business) |
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| September 27 2010 |
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| There are various benefits to Cloud CRM deployments versus on-site systems. This 2-page primer gives an overview of the pros and cons. It’s one of a series of Guidebooks designed to provide a 'plain English' business view of various important CRM topics. |
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Enterprise Meet Cloud: Mapping a Safe Passage to Enterprise Cloud Adoption |
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| September 23 2010 |
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| Many enterprise IT executives are wondering how they can bring the economic and practical advantages of cloud computing - the rapid deployment, pay-per-use pricing, scalable capacity on-demand- to those more business-critical systems, yet without compromising their security, reliability and governance. This paper maps out how to ensure safe passage, trust and confidence when migrating such valuable IT assets to the cloud. |
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| CSC offers “on-premise private cloud” |
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| August 17 2011 - Delimiter | ||||
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| The case for compliance as a cloud service |
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| August 16 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| 4 Critical Questions About The Cloud |
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| August 16 2011 - InformationWeek | ||||
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| Cloud box does virtualization sans SAN |
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| August 16 2011 - The Register | ||||
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| Equinix builds cloud ecosystem in Sydney |
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| August 15 2011 - ITNews | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Beyond virtualization in the private cloud |
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| August 15 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Building the Optimal Private Cloud Computing Deployment |
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| August 15 2011 - Datamation | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| After power outages, cloud insurance looks even better |
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| August 15 2011 - GigaOm | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Cloud CIO: What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means to CIOs |
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| August 12 2011 - Computer World | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Research: Half of Cloud Clients to Change Privacy Policy by Q4 2012 |
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| August 12 2011 - ReadWriteCloud | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Cloud Storage Simplifies the Complexities of Data Storage |
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| August 12 2011 - TMCNet | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Cloud computing: 4 tips for regulatory compliance |
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| August 09 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| 5 things to consider before embracing cloud computing |
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| July 15 2011 - Venture Beat | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Cloud security fears outweigh savings, but perhaps not for long |
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| July 08 2011 - GCN | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Asia group launches cloud index, 'cloud map' |
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| July 08 2011 - ComputerWorld | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Data Migration Becomes Major Cloud Computing Issue |
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| April 27 2011 - ITBusiness Edge | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Amazon Web Services Service Health Dashboard |
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| April 25 2011 - Amazon | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Infosec: Cloud computing ‘explodes’ the security perimeter |
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| April 25 2011 - Computer World UK | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in |
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| April 25 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||
| To Cloud, or Not to Cloud |
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| April 25 2011 - Wall Street Journal | ||||
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| read the full article >> | ||||