Organisations that have adopted public clouds have experienced a higher number of security breaches than with their traditional IT infrastructures. This interesting snippet comes from recent research, ‘What’s Holding Back the Cloud?’ carried out by Intel IT Centre.

The research goes on to show that among the IT professionals surveyed, almost one third believe the security threats came from internal sources. Other key findings included concerns around lack of control, security measures and compliance…

ScienceLogic, an award-winning data center and cloud management software vendor, is now validated on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), the industry’s first converged data center platform that delivers smart, programmable infrastructure to simplify and accelerate enterprise-class application and service deployment in bare-metal, virtualized and cloud-computing environments. The ScienceLogic management platform provides consolidated visibility and control for heterogeneous, multi-vendor systems located in data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.

The ScienceLogic platform has been a network management module in the Cisco Smart Business Architecture (SBA) since 2009. Cisco SBA provides reference architectures that simplify and speed deployment of Cisco solutions for midsize to enterprise networks. Selected for its ease of use and speed of deployment, the ScienceLogic solution includes a set of management templates that begin to provide availability, performance, and configuration information immediately, covering the spectrum of Cisco devices and services, including:…

One of the most attractive benefits of the cloud model is its ability to lower initial implementation costs. Accessing new technologies therefore becomes an operational expense as opposed to a large capital expense, and internal IT costs can be dramatically lowered. The cloud also offers greater scalability and flexibility, reduced time to deploy new applications and services, and can help organisations to standardise services and technologies…

Getting Ready

Typically, IT infrastructure is split into three areas: on-premise, the private cloud, and the public cloud. As enterprises come to better understand the nature of their on-premise environments, they can find better ways to take advantage of the cloud, reaping both cost savings and business benefits. With this aspiration, however, comes the sobering recognition that they often don’t understand their existing assets all that well…

"Cloud applications give business users the freedom and autonomy to procure and use software, but they make identity management more complex and difficult for the IT organization," said Jackie Gilbert, VP and GM of SailPoint’s Cloud Business Unit. "As we worked with customers to address cloud identity management requirements, we realized that one of the biggest challenges with delivering governance and control for cloud applications is doing so in a way that does not impede the business. The right identity management strategy allows organizations to mitigate risk and meet compliance requirements while also providing valuable services to the business. This helps IT align with the cloud’s core value propositions of convenience and simplicity for the business."…

“[Chromebooks] can be hugely disruptive for the enterprise, as well as in many of our facilities,” Hanapole told CIO Journal during a meeting in Google’s New York City office May 31. Hanapole, who was in town to participate on a panel at Google’s cloud computing event May 31, said the Chromebook initiative is one of several efforts to move the company’s 30,000 worldwide employees into the cloud. This is part of a broader process the company embarked on a few years ago to simplify IT operations amid declining financial performance…

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on June 11 the world’s first globally seamless enterprise cloud service to incorporate OpenFlow network virtualization technology for networks built within and between data centers, which will launch on June 29. The service is initially provided via NTT Com data centers in Japan and Hong Kong, followed by data centers in the United States (two locations), the United Kingdom and Singapore in December and in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand in March 2013.

NTT Com’s new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, Enterprise Cloud, provides global cloud resources that enterprise customers can easily control and manage to optimize their ICT costs and support the global expansion of corporate operations.

Many multinational enterprises with growing global operations are struggling with long lead times to expand and modify their ICT systems, which can delay their response to rapid changes in the market. NTT Com helps enterprises overcome this problem by providing them with flexible cloud services via which system changes can be performed automatically using virtualized servers and networks, and a convenient customer portal.