March 9, 2011 Off

Data quality ‘should be central to organisations’

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: James Glass.

Companies should see their data quality policies as central to the way in which they operate.

According to a new report from Computer Business Review and Experian QAS, organisations in both the private and public sectors are coming to realise how important accurate information is when it comes to dealing with customers and citizens.

"Indeed, many organisations have already established that data quality initiatives should not just be one-off projects but an ongoing practice that is woven into the very fabric of their operations," it said.

March 8, 2011 Off

McAfee Opens New Cloud Data Center in London

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Fahmida Y. Rashid.

Just a week after Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee, it’s back to business as usual as the security company expands its cloud footprint with a new data center to power its security software as a service business.

McAfee has activated its fifth cloud data center in the past 12 months, and another center is expected in a few weeks, the company said Mar. 7. The centers underscore the company’s commitment to growing its e-mail, Web and endpoint security and vulnerability management SAAS offerings, McAfee said.

March 8, 2011 Off

Cloud computing ‘to be considered following Christchurch disaster’

By David
Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Neil Hill.

Many businesses in New Zealand will be considering making use of cloud computing following the earthquake that hit Christchurch.

This is the opinion of IDC research country manager Ullrich Loeffler, who said companies that were based in the city’s central business district may reassess their continuity measures.

"I think a lot of them will consider the cloud option," he told Stuff.co.nz.

"For businesses that have had their offices or systems destroyed, you would have to think whether you invest to build up your own infrastructure again."

March 7, 2011 Off

Calling All Cloud Computing Coordinators

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

One of the challenges with cloud computing is that within most IT organizations nobody is really in charge of it. There’s usually a CIO somewhere setting strategy, a CTO making technology decisions, and a raft of server, storage and networking specialists, all of which generally do their own thing in the service of the application owners.

March 7, 2011 Off

Taking Advantage of Public and Private Clouds Requires the Right Cloud Management Software

By David
Grazed from Virtual Strategy Magazine.  Author: Reza Malekzadeh.

Cloud computing is just a few years old, but already has given rise to two separate approaches and architectures; one public, like Amazon’s Web services, the other private, usually inside a corporate data center. Computer users assigned to business units are attracted to the direct access and easy provisioning of the public cloud, since servers can be up and running in a few minutes. IT organizations, on the other hand, value the security and control they associate with private clouds, and worry about the proliferation of public cloud instances and its potential impact on corporate data and security policies. It’s a familiar tug-of-war.