Bringing the cloud to data that cannot be moved

Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Jane Snowdon.

Many regulations, laws, and industry guidelines govern how sensitive personal information and regulated data are managed in the healthcare, banking, and financial industries. Improper release of regulated or sensitive information can result in significant consequences and damage, making compliance with government regulatory acts and industry guidelines paramount.
Micro-Cloud: Cloud moving into the network

Cloud computing has many benefits but cases exist where some data cannot be moved to the cloud for of a variety of reasons. For example, security concerns or regulatory compliance requirements might limit the use of the cloud. In some cases, data may be generated at rates that are too big to move or at rates that exceed transfer capacity, for example in surveillance, operations in remote areas, and telemetry applications…


Micro-Cloud technology is a new model for cloud computing especially suited for organizations that are unable to move data onto the cloud due to insufficient bandwidth, latency, location-specific processing needs, Big Data, security, or compliance reasons. Micro-Cloud allows organizations to realize the benefits of cloud computing as they create new insights from their premises by moving computations and analytics to where the data resides, dynamically and intelligently…

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