Cloud Business 101

For many CIO’s today, the perceived barriers to Cloud computing remain security, regulation and compliance. Organizations seek reassurance on several points: accessing the Cloud will not compromise their security; their sensitive data and intellectual property will be protected; they can retrieve their data if they want to change Cloud provider, or their provider winds up operations; and they can maintain their customer service standards and competitive performance.

CIO’s 2011 Global Cloud Computing Adoption survey reveals that 56% of the IT … Click here to read more

The idea of your IT being ‘moved to the cloud‘ might inspire thoughts of servers flying through the air, but what it really means is removing internal hardware to be replaced by access to your own private servers which scale and cost based on what you need and use. There are a wide range of cloud computing infrastructure options available, but what can you actually implement, and how do you avoid problems?

What can be moved to the … Click here to read more

Cloud computing is the hot topic in the IT industry at the moment, but it is recognised that many businesses are cautious about migrating services to the cloud due to concerns over security.

Companies can feel concern when handing over control of precious data and business-critical applications to a third-party service provider. When this type of thing is handled in house, at least the responsibility lies internally and it is possible to work out who should be held to account.… Click here to read more

The Internet is providing very powerful ways to store and send digital information. As our reliance on the Internet increases and digital files increase in size, online storage offers the perfect way to store and send large amounts of information, quickly and safely. With the launch of Google’s “Drive” solution, an online storage service that mimics the popular “Dropbox”, the evidence of the increasing popularity of online cloud based storage is clear. So why would a business invest or even … Click here to read more

For most people taking the cloud computing route is still about deciding between the public cloud and the private cloud.  Few still think about the hybrid cloud despite the fact that it evolved in 2008 and is nearly four years old now.

Over time though hybrid cloud computing approaches have come to assume valid roles within enterprises as IT tries to mix and match public clouds and local IT assets to get the most value for money so to speak.  … Click here to read more

Cloud computing is not new, it’s still developing, but it’s certainly nothing new. It’s been around for a little while now and is becoming a powerful tool for companies that need more capacity, but don’t want to manage more resources.

The reason it’s called “cloud” computing is because “the cloud” encompasses many different forms of computing that can be made into a service. Some of these include networks, interfaces, hardware, and storage capacities. You can think of it like companies … Click here to read more