Companies continue to struggle in identifying precise applications and services used by its employees, without prior validation from IT. The conclusion emerges from the study “Cloud adoption: practices and priorities”, conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) on over 200 CIO and responsible for security in the world. Based on the survey of more than…
Is it realistic now to run in the cloud all applications required by a business? Most cloud computing providers use of cloud computing elements in a hybrid combination of public and private cloud to lure customers in 2014. Apart from the discussion on the management, control, governance and the ecosystem within the cloud, big companies…
IDC Health Insights released a new report, which shows the increasing cyber threats and the impact of successful attacks in healthcare business operations and how these health organizations are investing in its strategy to protect your valuable electronic assets. Healthcare organizations today have higher risk of suffering a cyber attack than ever, in part because…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to attract more developers to its cloud platform. On the occasion of the event “AWS re: Invent 2014” which takes place in Las Vegas, the company introduced several new services for developers. The important services that Amazon announced is called AWS Lambda, which is a computing service that runs the…
While companies always move more activity in the cloud, they must remain vigilant on potential security vulnerabilities in their systems. It is on the basis of this observation that IBM has developed a range of services to secure cloud operations of enterprises with the same level of rigor as that applied for transactions carried out…
OpenStack is used for construction and administration of public, private and hybrid clouds. The project has reached a scope and importance in the field of cloud computing, which corresponds to the Linux kernel for operating systems. Over 1400 developers from more than 130 companies were involved in the new version called OpenStack Juno, six months…
By Kyle Hailey Most enterprise business customers today face a plethora of challenges in order to migrate their massive applications to the cloud environment. For instance, many enterprise applications are so large that one of the easiest ways to migrate a customer environment to the cloud is to physically ship the customer storage disks to…
Research firm IDC predicts that the global market for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for the organization and cloud service provider segments will grow annually by 89 percent from 960 million dollars in 2014 to more than $8 billion in 2018. As per the IDC study, SDN Momentum Builds in Datacenter and Enterprise Networks, organizations need flexible…
The OpenStack Marketplace has a new feather under its hood. The open source cloud markatplace opens hosted private cloud for users to evaluate different OpenStack deployment options that best meet their requirements. The new Hosted Private Cloud category offers an open and transparent means to evaluate the full spectrum of OpenStack deployment options and includes…
The virtualization offers companies a variety of ways to reduce hardware and management costs of the IT infrastructure dramatically. This makes them an industry-wide development, the software vendor must not be underestimated. The rapidly growing popularity of VMs (Virtual Machine) within large companies makes it easier for software vendors required to license their applications in…