Cloud Tech News

  • Effective virtualisation security in cloud computing
    Infosec Institute
    As more and more organisations follow the “into the cloud” concept, malicious hackers keep finding ways to get their hands on valuable information by manipulating safeguards and breaching the security layers (if any) of cloud environments. One issue is that the cloud computing scenario is not as transparent as it claims to be. In addition, the service user cannot directly control the flow of data/information storage and processing. This paper examines the various steps which can be used to secure virtualisation in cloud computing.
    About 3 weeks, 3 days ago - Categories: Architecture, Industry, Security, Virtualization

  • Powering the Data Centre
    Quocirca
    Data centres are the basic platform that organisations have become more dependent upon. The failure of any aspect of the data centre can lead to a loss of business capability that is expensive at many levels for an organisation. With the increasing cost of energy, the most cost-effective approach to ensuring that an IT platform can continue to operate, even when power from the grid system is no longer available, has to be a high priority for any business.
    About 4 months, 2 weeks ago - Categories: Data

  • Expert Briefing: What's your answer to the BYOD question?
    Novell
    How are CIOs responding to the challenges of increasingly sophisticated, connected technology making its way onto corporate networks in the hands of employees? In this expert briefing, Novell addresses some of the questions, answers and challenges of the BYOD trend.
    About 7 months ago - Categories: Applications, Enterprise, Strategy

  • Getting the Most Out of Your Cloud Deployment
    Bitdefender
    Organisations are under ever increasing pressure to reduce IT costs. One of the cost reduction methods is to move applications into the cloud. Bitdefender, an award-winning provider of innovative security solutions, has released a whitepaper outlining the design considerations that must be taken into account when moving an application into the cloud. It also explores the performance impact traditional anti-malware solutions impose in the cloud, affecting the ROI achieved by moving workloads into the cloud.
    About 8 months, 2 weeks ago - Categories: Adoption, Security

  • Personal Media in Enterprise Part 2: Gaining a competitive advantage through a mobilised workforce
    Tigerspike
    Discover how the effective use of smartphone and tablet applications can help your organisation gain a competitive advantage, which apps to build first and which third party apps are popular with business users today.
    About 9 months, 2 weeks ago - Categories: Enterprise

  • Personal Media in Enterprise Part 1: The consumerisation of enterprise IT and the new challenges facing CIOs
    Tigerspike
    Discover how and why the growing trend of ‘consumerisation of IT’ within the enterprise is taking place, and the new challenges this trend brings to CIOs, CEOs and CMOs of large organisations.
    About 10 months, 1 week ago - Categories: Enterprise

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Reselling Cloud Computing But Were Afraid—or Didn’t Know—to Ask
    Ian Moyse, Sales Director Workbooks Online Limited
    In this series of four whitepapers, we will take a look at the top 12 things you need to know to successfully sell cloud computing. Part One will look at how cloud computing is changing the historic landscape of the channel as we know it, what to expect, what to consider and what can you do about it. This important background information will give you the knowledge required to lead your channel business into the new world where cloud solutions are a necessity to your customers.
    About 11 months, 1 week ago - Categories: Trends, Vendors