Cloud Computing for SMBs can empower the full IT department avoiding the one time investment and recurring costs at the same quality like that of enterprise. It is agreeable that, Public Cloud; specially Software as a Service has security flaws; but at the same time, we must remember, what is possible today was not possible to afford - owning own physical data center, particularly by a … [Read more...]
Safely Connect Private Cloud and Public Cloud
Medium-sized companies can take advantage of efficient in house and external IT resources with the right mix of private cloud and public cloud solutions. Also, compliance and security standards should not be forgotten. Cloud computing is in the market since a long time. But all cloud is not the same cloud. In cloud computing related companies, classical IT services such as storage, computing power … [Read more...]
Productive Social Software for Cloud Computing Platform
For higher productivity, better collaboration and a transparent and seamless communication, enterprise grade Productive Social Software for Cloud Computing Platform is of need. Chatter or Yammer provide features that we know from Twitter, Facebook. Here users can create user profiles, join groups and follow people, projects and documents. Also, in real-time feeds with the status updates of … [Read more...]
Teamwork via Cloud Computing
Teamwork via Cloud Computing is now possible with spatially distributed teams who need a digital workplace, employees can communicate and share information. Collaboration solutions from the cloud offer. With the existing infrastructure without Cloud that was not possible. Therefore, a consulting company who was looking for a web-based solution might found a PaaS to be useful. Teamwork via … [Read more...]
Checklist Secure Cloud Computing : The Conclusion
Checklist Secure Cloud Computing is the continuation and conclusion of previously discussed topic on Privacy issues of Cloud Computing. We have already discussed three the points on Involved Instances, Data Categories and Spatial Determinability, Inspection and Audit Rights on the first article on Checklist Secure Cloud Computing and about Privacy, Technical and organizational measures, … [Read more...]
Checklist Secure Cloud Computing : Part 2
Checklist for secure Cloud Computing is the continuation of previous article which addresses preliminary issues for many available Cloud solutions. Obviously, you will want to read the first article on Checklist for secure Cloud Computing from here. We will discuss three among the remaining points - Privacy, Technical and organizational measures, Transparency and Notification. Rest three fully … [Read more...]
Checklist for Secure Cloud Computing
Checklist for secure Cloud Computing preliminary answers and support the decision makers in reviewing the many traded on the market solutions for collaboration. We need to think about what companies we want to use services of, the compliance policy with data protection and at the many more things. Introduction to Checklist for secure Cloud Computing The following Checklist for … [Read more...]
What is Important in Single Sign-On Solutions
Single Sign-On (SSO) can unify the access control, even for the mobile apps, cloud computing Platforms and social networks. But what we must know about SSO? If online services can not be used, it is often an issue with wither forgotten password or the user name or verification questions to reset. Problems with the multitude of identities and credentials, is not limited to only the consumers. We … [Read more...]
Points to Check Before Switching to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the future of IT- be it about consumer applications, web applications or enterprise applications, all are converging towards a scenario where the data in cloud is far away from the user and the resources are hidden, not physical as it was in the past, as it was with dedicated servers and racks in data centers for smaller customers. Obviously if you work as a small, medium and … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Users Are Now Becoming Professional
Cloud Computing users are now professionally using the cloud services to incorporate the cloud into their IT strategies and inclining towards IaaS over SaaS. It quite good sign that, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers too, amazingly, even regressed. It is 78 percent of respondents in a survey has SaaS offerings versus 2010, were at 82 percent. This can be interpreted both as a clear … [Read more...]
Local Clouds Offer Little Protection
Local Clouds, in this PRISM era is promoted or sometimes just said without any influence to confer more protection to privacy and security. But this is not the truth. Cloud service providers, usually from National levels advertise that the data in them are safe because they are stored in Germany, France, India or whatever Country with better GDP (PPP) is. But the risk of privacy and security never … [Read more...]