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Cloud computing is a fast growing industry in India and there is need for absolute safety because there is an important client information and company detail that is at stake. It has been revealed by VMware that more than 90% of Indian firms believe that cloud computing is of help for their businesses…
To many, virtual environments using public cloud platforms could cause many security headaches. But this theory has been refuted by Simon Crosby, known as godfather of Xen…
2011 has seen the move to cloud computing gather speed, as companies start to commit budget to the technology that will change the landscape of IT. In an effort to capture the extent to which cloud has already penetrated the IT market, and at what rate we should expect it to grow, analysts have raced to release the most up-to-date market data…
How much revenue is IBM pulling in from cloud computing? Steve Mills, senior VP of the company’s software and systems business, has provided the first clue, revealing to InformationWeek that IBM’s software-as-a-service revenue is now in the "hundreds of millions of dollars."…Nearly half of 10,000 business leaders surveyed globally believe that the onset of cloud technologies have improved security. However, nearly a quarter believe it has increased vulnerability…
Open source cloud computing solutions are proliferating, as businesses and organizations demand flexible solutions for deploying public and private cloud applications. Among these solutions, OpenStack remains one of the highest profile examples, with vendors ranging from Hewlett-Packard to Dell to Citrix supporting it. Increasingly, OpenStack will face off with Eucalyptus Systems, which we’ve covered since its inception here at OStatic. In a piece for InfoWorld, Savio Rodrigues makes some good points about why Eucalyptus Systems may win organizations over and outpace OpenStack in the long run…
Grazed from TMCNet. Author: Mandira Srivastava.
Cloud computing is buzzing word these days. However, consumers, enterprise owners, network service providers are still skeptical about the proper use of public or private cloud.
Addressing storage industry, Scality (News – Alert) CEO, Jérôme Lecat introduced why Scality RING, the storage solution from organic storage pioneer Scality, is the most cost-effective storage technology for building private clouds…
Organizations with any sort of data center face the challenge of managing and securing access to numerous servers in both local and distributed environments. Now as companies move to virtualized environments and cloud computing, the same security and device management issues are growing exponentially…
Agiliance(R), Inc., the leading independent provider of Security and Operational Risk Management solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) programs, today announced that the Agiliance Continuous Compliance Service(TM) (CCS) for Cloud Risk Management (CRM) has been named the Best Cloud Security Solution of the Year in the prestigious 2011 Computing Security Awards…
Enteracloud, a leading provider of cloud computing and cloud connectivity solutions released today a whitepaper documenting the top five emerging cloud trends. With the impact of cloud computing gaining significant traction worldwide, CIOs and CTOs are becoming so comfortable with the cloud that some important trends are emerging with respect to CIOs’ cloud usage…