Managing security and uptime in the cloud

Grazed from BusinessSpectator.   Author: Steve Regini.

Time and again, surveys reveal that cloud computing raises security and reliability worries with CIOs and other execs. Two-thirds (67 per cent) of respondents in an Autumn 2013 IDG Enterprise survey chose security as one of their top three concerns, with integration a distant second (46 per cent). Security is more of an issue for large companies than for small and midsize companies, according to the report.

While these concerns are more often associated with public cloud providers, securing internal networks and ensuring uptime is a perennial challenge. Plenty of harmful and costly incidents happen inside the firewall due to employee error and gaps in protection…


With unified communications (UC), protecting data and managing uptime is more complex because the technologies have not evolved in an integrated fashion, says Andy Zmolek, a UC security expert and director of technology partnerships at Divide, a mobile device management software provider…

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