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  • Where is Your Cloud? Four Compliance Best Practices

    Posted April 15, 2010 - 3:27 pm

    If you think the phrase "It's in the cloud" means that your data resides on the Internet and is thus accessible everywhere equally, think again. Most infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services share the same residence model as traditional hosting and outsourcing deployments -- they live in specific data centers in specific geographies. This means that customer data is generated and most likely stored in this physical location, giving it legal and privacy implications.

  • Cloud Computing: Early Adopters Share Five Key Lessons

    Posted April 15, 2010 - 3:25 pm

    While some large enterprises have moved their information-technology infrastructure to a third-party managed service to save costs, small firms--especially startups--have come to rely on cloud services to cut initial outlays and help them focus on the core services and products.

  • How IT Outsourcing Customers Can Test Cloud Computing

    Posted April 15, 2010 - 11:22 am

    Traditional IT outsourcing customers have hesitated to jump into cloud computing because of the security and control risks. But the risk of not trying out cloud computing may be even greater. Here are five low-risk ways IT outsourcing customers can test out the cloud.

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    7 things you need to know about cloud computing

    Posted April 14, 2010 - 7:58 am

    Companies without a cloud computing project will be left behind. So saddle up, start a pilot, and pick a partner for distributing your computing power.

  • VMware, Salesforce.com to unveil mysterious cloud computing service

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 9:41 pm

    VMware, Salesforce cloud announcement drives speculation.

  • VMware’s SpringSource boosts cloud computing plans with acquisition

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 3:44 pm

    SpringSource, the enterprise Java vendor recently bought by VMware, announced an acquisition Tuesday that is designed to boost VMware’s cloud computing plans in the platform-as-a-service market.

  • How Not to Build a Cloud

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 3:40 pm

    Six no-no's for cloud computing planning in your enterprise. From legacy software to outdated metrics, these potential pitfalls deserve careful consideration.

  • Cloud Computing Doesn't Equal Hosting 2.0

    Posted April 13, 2010 - 3:38 pm

    Build cloud apps, not apps in the cloud, says Bernard Golden. Here's a look at why if you treat cloud computing like hosting 2.0, you'll suffer.

  • Interop Planning Guide: Cloudy forecast

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 9:51 pm

    To say that this year's Interop will feature a lot on cloud computing would be an understatement. Of course, cloud computing is only one of the many topics experts at Interop are due to discuss this year. If you're not interested in the cloud, you can always attend sessions on virtualization, mobility, VoIP and more. This Interop Planning Guide should help you pick out the most interesting sessions with the most relevant speakers to match your area of expertise.

  • Multi-tenancy in the cloud: Why it matters

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 9:22 pm

    Whether an IT organization is going with public or private clouds, it's important to understand the nuances of multi-tenant architecture. For public clouds, IT managers need to understand the degree of multi-tenancy supported by whichever vendor they are looking at. For private clouds, the entire responsibility of designing a multi-tenant architecture rests with the IT managers.

  • Virtualization and cloud security modeled on NAC

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 9:20 pm

    Virtualization and cloud computing have disrupted the security industry to its core. We have not quite figured out how to deal with very dynamic infrastructure while most security is implemented in a mostly static ring of devices surrounding the resources they protect.

  • Cloud computing, virtualization top Interop agenda

    Posted April 12, 2010 - 4:11 pm

    In this Q&A with Interop general manager Lenny Heymann, we discuss the major themes of this year's show, the impact of cloud computing on the enterprise and how the rise of the iPad might affect IT.

  • CRM for Road Warriors: Phone or Laptop?

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 4:47 pm

    CRM was born in the call center and grew up in the headquarters office. Now it's a teenager and wants to travel. What do you need to consider for your road warriors, and what's reasonable to give them for software and devices?

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    Enterprise cloud put to the test

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 4:21 pm

    The potential benefits of public clouds are obvious to most IT execs, but so are the pitfalls -- outages, security concerns, compliance issues, and questions about performance, management, service-level agreements and billing. At this point, it's fair to say that most IT execs are wary of entrusting sensitive data or important applications to the public cloud.

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    Cloud computing: Choosing a personal cloud service

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 11:49 am

    Personal cloud services provide users with a clear path to their data, and even some apps, regardless of platform. Two of the most promising offerings are Tonido from CodeLathe, and PogoPlug from CloudEngines, which have a strong overlap in features, but approach the customer in different ways.

  • IT Operations: Beware the Cloud Boomerang

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 10:51 am

    Test applications created in the cloud will subtly migrate from development through trial to production. Then the developers will move on and IT Ops will be stuck caring for the apps. You'd better get ahead of the problem and get your cloud strategy moving now, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

  • The Look of Post-Cloud IT

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 10:12 am

    Thornton May wonders why no one is thinking ahead to the shape of the IT landscape once cloud computing becomes the norm.

  • What Does The Cloud Really Look Like?

    Posted April 2, 2010 - 9:31 am

    The reality of cloud computing has always been a lot more about the nuts and bolts of data-center operations than about the metaphor of on-demand computer power flowing from anonymous sources somewhere on the other end of the network connection.

  • 5 hot IT topics: 5 must-read books

    Posted April 1, 2010 - 9:30 pm

    Staying on top of all the new innovations, strategies and directions in today's IT world can be mindboggling. That's where a great IT library can help, filled with the latest and greatest guidebooks on all the hot IT topics you need to put your arms around in your company's constantly morphing technology environment.

  • Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 8:37 pm

    Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.

  • Cloud security's seven deadly sins

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 3:12 pm

    A security expert warns organizations making a foray into cloud computing may know familiar terms like multi-tenancy and virtualization, but that doesn't mean they understand everything about putting applications in the cloud.

  • Companies create alliance to push open source clouds

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:51 am

    IELO, Mandriva, and Nexedi this week joined forces and formed the Free Cloud Alliance, which will work to push open source products for cloud computing.

  • Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:43 am

    The Digital Due Process coalition is pushing Congress to modernize privacy laws in the United States. The coalition--comprised of technology companies and special interest groups, including Microsoft, Google, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), eBay, and others--feels that existing privacy regulations do not adequately protect data in the digital era, and could stop businesses from embracing cloud computing.

  • Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

    Posted March 31, 2010 - 11:16 am

    Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud.

  • Greenpeace: Facebook Has a Hand in Global Warming

    Posted March 30, 2010 - 9:22 pm

    Greenpeace has charged that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centers for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic --- but are they on target?

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