Cloud Central

Think private clouds offer all the flexibility and none of the risk? IT is missing out if it doesn’t prepare for public cloud use.

Image: Patrick Hoesly/Flickr Brick-and-mortar retailers have long favored highly visible investments, such as advertising or store design over spending

Executives are still dead set on building Private Clouds. The true reason for this stubbornness is the battle over control.

A recent survey by analyst company Ovum found 74 per cent of IT activities within organisations are still performed by an in-house IT facility. Indeed, only 4 per cent of IT activities currently make use of cloud resources.

SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.

Shadow IT is a growing issue. As departments, tired of waiting for IT and dealing with the processes involved in product creation, turn to third-party cloud

Achieving five 9s reliability has been an important concept in telecommunications and computing for a long time. Literally, “five 9s” is defined as your computing infrastructure working 99.999% of the time (which means the maximum downtime in a year is no more than 5 minutes and 15.36 seconds annually, or slightly longer in a leap year).

Companies that are moving select IT capabilities to the cloud are saving money and increasing profits, which they are putting back into the business to increase headcount, boost wages and drive innovation.

Enterprises moving to the cloud have to understand that they are not simply purchasing a specific product or service. Rather, they are entering into a core partnership with their cloud providers.

Everyone seems to want to take advantage of cloud computing these days, but few people actually take the time to think about the risks that come along with this kind of service. To manage cloud security risks, you have to know which risks in the cloud actually pose a threat to your business. Different types of clouds environments will come with different problems, so you need to learn about your cloud service to be able to realize what could go wrong if you are not careful at all times.

As cloud computing sweeps through organizations, executives' confidence that they can effectively deploy it and measure its results is waning. Cloud may be a more inscrutable platform than traditional IT.

While software has been “eating the world” for years in the consumer world, now start-up software is infiltrating even the largest of enterprises at an ever increasing rate.

Cloud computing is predicted to be the future of the technology world, and analyst reports abound on the expected growth of the uptake of these solutions. However, security issues remain one of the dominant barriers with the adoption of cloud solutions. Many organisations are hesitant to migrate to the cloud in light of the ever-increasing number of attacks on cloud-based solutions, as well as the risk of downtime caused by natural disasters and other issues in the regions where cloud data is stored.

SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.

The Internet of Things is about to transform businesses, cities and our homes - and probably make us all much smarter.

Cloud Skills - A study conducted by CompTIA under the caption of IT industry outlook 2013 suggests that demand of cross-dimensional...

Close to two-fifths of organizations now run private clouds in one form or another, and one-fourth are using public cloud services in an enterprise capacity.

When many people come up against the term “risk” in the context of IT projects, they immediately reach for the telephone to call for their IT security experts.

What Are CIO's Saying About (EIM) Enterprise Information Management

Direct Line Group finds the cloud its safest bet to quickly establish a separate HR system before separating from its parent company.

Security is a real issue even though it is true that cloud computing is just as safe as traditional systems when it comes to apparent vulnerabilities and security holes. This is because of the nature of cloud computing, the public cloud, there are a lot more people with proximity access to the data. What I mean is that compared to an in-house system where there is virtually no connection to the outside internet, the whole world will now be potentially be able to just walk up to your door, so to speak, in public cloud systems.

Using analytics to better understand the cloud computing job market is fascinating.

SBWire’s press release distribution, targeting, marketing, online media contact management, and hosted news room service helps small businesses connect with their target audiences across the globe.

Cloud computing relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as “the cloud”) is used as a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase cloud computing actually means “a type of Internet-based computing,” where different services – such as servers,

Firewalls will always be required as they are the sole devices that analyse and control communication of data and applications.