Are Sunny Days Possible in the Cloud?
Sep 23, 2011Do you remember not too long ago hopping into your car, driving, across town (when gas was $1- something) to your local retail store and searching the computer department to purchase a cereal box that contained between 2- 8 3.5” …
Read MoreCloud Computing Tips for Small Business
Sep 20, 2011Cloud computing technology offers both time- and money-saving benefits, which makes it a great fit for small business. As cloud computing benefits become more tangible, more small businesses are moving to the cloud. Still, as with any technology, you don’t …
Read More“Platform to success: get on top of cloud computing”
Sep 9, 2011Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the “IPS” taxonomy: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. This taxonomy has the virtue of being comprehensible and neatly partitioning assessment requirements: Want an application? Look to …
Read More“No pointing fingers for cloud security”
Sep 7, 2011Analysis: Understanding who needs to do what can sometimes be tricky. Over the last two decades, the now-famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon showing two canines in front of a PC with one saying to the other, “On the internet, nobody …
Read More“Cloud Computing: CNBC Explains”
Sep 3, 2011To hear the experts tell it, cloud computing may be the most innovative technology development in decades, or should be dismissed as a marketing tool for existing know-how that’s as old as computers themselves. We can’t settle the debate on …
Read More“Happy Fifth Birthday, Cloud Computing”
Aug 30, 2011Computerworld – In the vacuum between Hurricane Irene and Labor Day weekend, a major focus of the tech universe this week is on VMworld in Las Vegas. It’s here that the major and minor vendors are bringing out their latest …
Read More“Security and Google Apps: An interview With Google Enterprise Director of Security”
Aug 26, 2011How does Google’s approach to security differ from traditional models? It’s a bit of a different model than trying to protect the end point devices, the laptop, the desktop. We focus on protecting the data, and have very limited data …
Read More“Cloud Computing: More IT leaders turn to SaaS ERP”
Aug 24, 2011In 2006, Epec Engineered Technologies found itself in a situation familiar to many in corporate IT. With a series of business acquisitions behind it, the New Bedford, Mass.-based manufacturer of printed circuit boards, battery packs and other electronic components needed …
Read More“To Cloud or Not to Cloud?”
Aug 22, 2011You’re a small to mid-sized business. You’ve got an IT guy or gal, employee workstations, and maybe even a few servers in a back room somewhere. On the servers you might be storing important business data, a few applications that …
Read More“AWS Launches GovCloud, A Secure Region For U.S. Government Agencies And Contractors”
Aug 17, 2011Many government agencies have been slower to adopt the cloud because of the specific regulatory requirements, compliance issues and security regulations. To mitigate this, Amazon Web Services is launching AWS GovCloud, a new secure region specialized for U.S. government agencies …
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