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With any evolving technology comes new threats to the security of an organization’s data, and specifically payment card data, which remains the most attractive target for criminals.
Jeremy King, European director, PCI Security Standards Council Post date: 22-Apr-2013
Service brokering works like "glue" that sticks different pieces of clouds together. Once it solves the issue of interoperability between clouds, previously unsuccessful e-business models like cargo community services will be given a second chance.
28-Jun-2012
"Data Center Without Walls" describes an architecture that creates a multi-data center, hybrid cloud environment able to function as one virtual data center to address any magnitude of workload demand and offer seamless workflow movement.
28-Jun-2012
A different network architecture approach is needed to help cloud business evolve from software services running cloud-based applications that transfer small amounts of cloud storage, to infrastructure services for more mission-critical, larger file size requirements.
28-Jun-2012
A new type of government cloud service is also surfacing. These cloud services are on special-built infrastructure whereby one government agency or an appointed commercial organization functions as the host facility and offers cloud computing services to the rest of the government agencies.
27-Jun-2012
The success of any cloud implementation rests on a solid transformation strategy. Making the move to the cloud can be daunting as it compels CIOs to look at multiple issues – such as storage and server consolidation, automation and human resources – at the same time.
11-Jun-2012
While the jurisdictional issues of cloud service adoption may not be resolved completely through the contract, being aware of these issues enables a customer to negotiate terms it requires to meet its regulatory obligations and to "price in" these concerns into the value of the cloud service.
06-Jun-2012
Extending cloud and data center best practices all the way up to network access is a nice way to take the cloud services down to the end users -- it ultimately helps IT with a network infrastructure value-add through improved provisioning, configuration and management.
31-May-2012
Crowdsourcing has gained wide acceptance. The scope and significance of this phenomenon has also increased considerably. Some of the earlier and popular examples of crowdsourcing include the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Wikipedia.
28-May-2012
The biggest misconception about cloud computing is to think there is magic to it. There isn't; it's just a great industrial approach to computing. With a public IaaS cloud offering, customers have the same secure, industrial-grade platform, whether they are large companies or a three-man company.
21-May-2012
As we progress towards an IT service model where computing resources are delivered via some form of cloud, automation tools will determine the extent to which companies are able to successfully reap the benefits of the technology.
09-May-2012
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