Is Cloud Computing Changing The Film Industry? There are many things people think about when it comes to the film industry: glamour, money, success, movies stars; but IT is probably low on the list. However, it is cloud computing that is causing a revolution in the film industry. The film industry has decided to fully ... Read Entire story
Moving business applications and data to the cloud doesn’t shift the ultimate responsibility organizations have for protecting sensitive customer, patient and corporate data. Before partnering with a cloud services brokerage (CSB) — or any cloud service provider — it is important to know what measures it takes to ensure the data entrusted to it will be appropriately safeguarded.
Planning For Hybrid Cloud Management Even with all the hype that cloud computing is bringing to the field like Software/Platform/Infrastructure-as-a-service and the cost savings that they bring, the hybrid cloud approach is still gaining traction. This approach combines the effective use of both private and public cloud environments. But in truth, building a bridge between ... Read Entire story
Peeking Into The Cloud: Look What I found! Let’s imagine for a moment that you want to become the next super-power social site. It’s a daunting task, but you get to where you want to be by doing what? Cloud computing would help you. Cloud computing is a network of computers that are set up ... Read Entire story
The Challenge For Cloud Computing Consumers are driving cloud adoption far faster than enterprise IT can accept. Analytically speaking, consumers are driving this incredible rate of change for enterprise employers. The challenge one faces is that cloud computing is leading an enormous change in the enterprise IT environment, which can broadly be called the “consumerization” ... Read Entire story
An interesting new report has been issued by Forrester Research that provides a great deal of market research and insight into the challenges of ... Read Entire story
We decided to take advantage of the fine collection of smart people running around at CiscoLive in San Diego, and ... Read Entire story
Cloud Infographic: Critical Cloud-Based Business Data How much control do you have over your critical cloud based business data? How easily do the top SaaS applications allow users to move their data in and out of the service? To give users a look into how data liberation friendly these services are, Backupify, the leading cloud ... Read Entire story
IBM Me: Cloud Computing Basics IBM has come up with great and easy ways to understand cloud computing and make it functional as well. IBM is a leader when it comes to cloud computing, so it is no surprise that they have managed to do this. Cloud computing can also go beyond cost savings by ... Read Entire story
The Stormy Outage: Criticism Pouring On The Amazon Cloud Last Friday night proved very gloomy for Amazon’s Cloud Service. It all started off with colossal thunderstorms jolting the Amazon US East datacenter and reportedly bringing it down (yet again). On the other hand, alternate cloud computing services within the same geographical location remained intact and ... Read Entire story
Google Wins One Battle, Microsoft Wins Another, But the Battle Continues On an article published more than a year ago on January 7, 2011, I had written “Microsoft and Google have never been the best of friends, and this mutual dislike has extended to their ventures in the cloud computing space as well. Both these ... Read Entire story
The 4 Primary Cloud Deployment Models With most organizations focusing on leveraging the cloud in order to cut capital expenditure and control operating costs, there is aggressive growth in business for cloud adoption. However, the cloud can bring security risks and challenges for IT Management, which can be more expensive for the organization to deal ... Read Entire story
Last week I was teaching Learning Tree’s Introduction to Cloud Computing course in Schaumburg, Illinois. During the course we spent some time talking about the differences between PaaS and IaaS. We feature Google App Engine as a representative example of a PaaS and Amazon EC2 as an example IaaS. It looks like going forward we ... Read Entire story
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