UK Survey Finds Satisfaction With Cloud Providers
According to a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum of 450 organizations in the UK, almost half (48 percent) are already using cloud computing in some shape or form.
The survey showed high levels of satisfaction with cloud service providers, but lingering confusion about business interruption issues and the consequences of downtime.
WS02 Brings Middleware to the Cloud
Middleware servers used to be locked down to on-premise deployments, but that has now changed in the modern world of the cloud and Platform-as-a-Service.
Middleware vendor WS02 is advancing its PaaS offering this week with the release of Stratos 1.5. Statros is an open source project that is also available as service from WSO2 with Stratos Live, which is hosted on Amazon’s EC2…
Cloud Security Services Can Reduce Malware
Cloud technology can be harnessed to make it less profitable—or at least less lucrative—to develop and distribute run-of-the-mill malware, Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, told eWEEK. If developers are forced to add sophisticated features to develop malware that can’t be easily thwarted, it also raises the bar on who can enter the malware business.
Of the more than 20 million pieces of malware detected by Kaspersky Lab every year, a significant portion of them are considered "typical." They are often created using readily available tool kits or just re-skinned versions of existing malware.
Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform Powers EmblemHealth Mobile Apps
Government Community Cloud – Best practices
The Community Cloud is one of the NIST Deployment Models, and is critical to the adoption of Cloud Computing, as it finds the balance between addressing customers data privacy concerns and leveraging Cloud-enabled economies of scale.
Google App Engine Cloud Availability Plummets, Sparks Outages
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) App Engine, the search giant’s cloud development platform, suffered a massive performance hiccup on Thursday when availability dropped and knocked some user Web sites off line.
Where’s Microsoft’s Plan to Win in the Consumerization of IT Age?
Take a look at the companies that have made major progress in the technology industry in the past few years and you’ll notice a pattern. Apple and Google both emphasize simplicity and a go-to-market strategy that emphasizes consumer markets. In an age when the consumerization of IT is the reality and the Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest technology trade show around (not the now defunct COMDEX), it’s pretty clear that consumer markets are a clear pathway into the enterprise.
VDI as a Utility in the Cloud
One of the problems that IT organizations have with anything to do with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is its complexity. While the promise of VDI is appealing, the cost of deploying it and managing it scares off a lot of IT organizations.
The cloud and the incredible shrinking office
Those in the know say that cloud computing will fundamentally change the way we office creatures work.
“I am slightly too young to remember the workplace before the arrival of the PC,” says Jacqui Thomas, director of Comms at the UK and Ireland chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance. “But cloud is the same kind of game changer.”
Adrian Steel, head of infrastructure at the Royal Mail, also sees big changes ahead, especially once cloud matures.