8×8 Expands Cloud Hosting Services With Zerigo Acquisition
Hosted VoIP and cloud services provider 8×8 has acquired Zerigo, a Littleton, Colo.-based specialist in virtual private services, managed DNS and monitoring tools. 8×8 focuses on SMB customers, and the move expands what it can provide for cloud hosting services, 8×8 said Monday.
7 Emerging Cloud Computing Vendors Providing Performance and Optimization Services
Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets because of cloud computing. Those that retain IT assets will have fewer and fewer as time goes by.
This shift means that IT has to make some decisions about how they handle their cloud resources, both during and after transitioning to the cloud. How will they manage performance across the WAN? How can they best allocate resources in a way that reduces costly waste and redundancies? How can they maintain and develop assets with the greatest ROI?
Report: Cloud Computing Catching On in Emerging Markets
While cloud computing gains steadily in the U.S., U.K. and Germany (and rather slowly in Canada), it’s taking off in emerging markets like Brazil, China and India. According to a study by GfK Custom Research, and covered by FineChannel, cloud computing enjoys relatively high penetration rate in emerging markets, regardless of company size…
Growth of Public Cloud Unified Communications Sluggish: Survey
Is Your Company At Risk of a DDoS Attack?
U.S. companies face a significant and persistent threat from cyber attacks, and one of the greatest risks of all is what’s known as a “distributed denial-of-service” (DDoS) attack.
VMware spells out limits to the cloud
People and processes are barriers to cloud adoption, not technology and security, according to VMware.
“Technologically, the issues [around cloud adoption] aren’t significant. The biggest issues are people and process issues,” said Tod Nielsen, president at VMware, who was in London for VMware Forum 2011.
“People ask about security and privacy. But when you get to the heart of the issue, those issues are about people not trusting each other. People want to control what they own.”
New PCI Compliance Guidelines Set New Standards For Cloud Security
Companies unsure about the Payment Card Industry’s requirement to secure data in the cloud don’t need to wonder anymore.
On Tuesday, the PCI Security Standards Council clarified its guidance for storing and processing financial and transaction data in virtualized systems, a key component of almost all cloud architecture. In its "Information Supplement: PCI DSS Virtualization Guide," the group states that virtualization technology brings unique risks when used with cardholder data — data that goes into that cloud is still subject to the PCI Data Security Standard.
Improving the Security of Cloud Computing
On-demand cloud computing and data storage can save companies money, but many businesses—particularly in finance and health care—are wary of handing data to third parties, fearing hacking, accidental data loss, or theft by rogue employees of cloud providers.
New security solutions are appearing: One verifies cloud providers’ claims that your data is safely lodged on its own server. Another protects your cloud-based data by using a math function to divide it into 16 segments, any 10 of which can be used to re-create the entire original set.