Category: News

Grazed from PropertyCasualty360. Author: Anya Khalamayzer.

Risk managers may have their head in the clouds with concern over the liabilities of cloud computing. However, an uptick in companies moving to cloud data hasn’t correlated to a cybercrime storm, says Bryan Sartin, director of Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ Research, Investigations, Solutions, Knowledge (RISK) Team.

“By and large, major cloud providers have figured out their own native security architecture, so hackers can’t use the same recipe of attacks on different providers,” says Sartin. It is the risk manager’s company that should be concerned about its safety culture, especially those in the financial and insurance industries, which Sartin says are “classic” victims of cyber attacks…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Jeremy Kirk.

Google is lending its vast infrastructure to websites that may be targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks because of their content. The program, called "Project Shield," is invite-only and accepting applications from websites dealing with news, human rights or election-related content.

Those accepted will benefit from Google’s DDoS defenses, which help repel barrages of traffic designed to cause websites to stop responding. DDoS attacks are an effective, low-cost way to disrupt companies and organizations. The attacks are difficult to counter even for well-resourced organizations that can afford separate security services specializing in DDoS mitigation…

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Marissa Tejada.

Cloud computing storage is on the rise, and that’s creating new vendor offerings in the market. A new survey found that the United States is the largest revenue generator in the worldwide cloud-based storage market. The growth of acceptance of the cloud to digitally store information has created better choices for midsize firms aiming to implement the cloud at an affordable price point.

Bright Forecast

Global research firm TechNavio recently released its official forecast of the cloud storage market. The results show that the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36 percent until 2016. Out of all the global regions, North America is considered the largest adopter of cloud computing storage technologies. The highest enterprise adopters include the manufacturing sector and the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. Companies in the fields of retail, health care and entertainment will also be implementing cloud storage at an aggressive pace in the future…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Nestor E. Arellano.

Corporate IT administrators may have more to worry about than just the wave of smart watches, Google glasses and other wearable computing devices that could flood the enterprise soon. A recent survey of indicates that more than half of Generation Y workers are prepared to contravene corporate bring your own device and cloud computing policies if it cramps their personal and professional computing and social networking activity.

“It’s not getting any better for IT groups,” said John Maddison, vice-president of marketing for American network security appliance firm Fortinet Technologies Inc. “It’s really alarming to see policy contravention so high and so sharply on the rise, especially when instances of Gen Y users being victims of cybercrime is rising.”…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Walt Strubbe.

For a sector driven by rapid change, it’s always discouraging to hear IT catch blame for being a corporate bottleneck. Yet it’s a refrain growing all the more common with the widespread adoption of SaaS, IaaS and other cloud-based service offerings that enable IT circumvention.

And it’s one that continues to push IT leaders to redefine their strategies and policies. One way IT can retain the control and compliance it needs and still give end users what they want is to operate “as-a-Service,” a movement the industry is calling IT-as-a-Service, or ITaaS…

Grazed from CloudExpoAsia.  Author: Event Announcement.

Cloud Expo Asia, located in Singapore on the 13th & 14th November 2013, is set to be the leading event in Asia for senior IT decision makers in client side and public sector organisations, as well as the cloud industry.

The event includes a world-class conference programme with over 140 speakersincluding 50 case-studies and an exhibition of 100 leading international suppliers.  Co-located with Cloud Expo Asia is Data Centre World Singapore and the CloudAsia Conference organised by the IDA.

Cloud Expo Asia’s world-class conference programme reaches over 9 dedicated theatres which are defined by both discipline and technology:…

Grazed from Wired. Author: Nikolaus Kimla.

Throughout history, there have always been visions of the future. Jules Verne showed us submarines and flying machines long before they came about. Gene Roddenberry shared his vision of computers that would greatly assist in every aspect of an organization and even fully run some of them – and this has come to pass. Isaac Asimov described robots that would replace laborers and domestic staff. All of these are here or are well on the way.

But with cloud computing and the technological advancements all around us, it doesn’t take a science fiction writer to point out how our corporate world will soon appear. The advent of the cloud is bringing about a new corporate environment in which there is no office. Everyone is working remotely from their own locations and the physical building is a thing of the past. In addition to many other benefits, this scenario spells the end of office politics…

Grazed from CloudReviews. Author: Editorial Staff.

As more and more companies are migrating from traditional software systems to cloud-based SAAS alternatives, the competition among SAAS providers has increased tremendously. In an article on ZDNet, writer Kevin Kwang says the cut-throat level of competition in the SAAS space has resulted in a lot of providers sacrificing profitability in order to meet their customer acquisition targets.

This is not very unexpected. The benefits of SAAS largely outweigh the cons and consequently, most of the traditional enterprise software providers are now focusing on offering a SAAS alternative to their products. This has been the primary reason to the heightened level of competition…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud-based Data Protection for NetApp is the latest addition to Arrow Electronics’ ArrowSphere cloud aggregation marketplace, as part of a strategic partnership between Artisan Infrastructure and Arrow that was announced today.

According to Brian Hierholzer, CEO of Artisan, an Austin, Texas-based wholesale-only provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), this is the first partnership between the two companies. The new partnership enables Arrow partners to sell the service — which includes NetApp data protection infrastructure and a suite of services to speed time to market, simplify billing and contracts, and reduce management overhead — to their enterprise and to small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloudian, the market-leading cloud storage software company, today announced that its Cloudian Connector for Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.1 has been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc. The new Cloudian Connector completed a rigorous verification process to ensure full compatibility with the newly announced Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.1.

The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that the Cloudian Connector has successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager 2.1 in order to offer a turnkey on-premise cloud storage solution that gives enterprises a small start option with full S3 compatibility…