Top 10 Cloud Concerns – Study The findings of a survey conducted jointly by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the top 10 areas where trust in the cloud is the lowest. Studying Cloud Market Maturity conducted jointly between <a title=”Cloud Security Alliance Aims…
How To Counter Threats Of Cloud Computing Phishing is a popular scam to bait internet users into providing private information. It usually acquires information for the purpose of identity theft. A “phisher” usually sends emails to various individuals and claims to be a legitimate entity. People are duped into providing their personal information, mostly of…
On the sidelines of the quarterly results, Oracle CEO said the company would offer its public cloud during its OpenWorld event at the end of the month. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, said a new IaaS platform would be unveiled at the upcoming OpenWorld conference. According to him, this service will provide customers access to…
Netflix’s Move to the Cloud and its Risks Netflix is one of the examples that public cloud based services will serve as the driving force in the transformation of in-house IT operations. Netflix has decided that they no longer need an on-premise datacenter to support their in-house corporate IT services, and have started shifting internal…
Join Us at Global Mobile Internet Conference: Silicon Valley Save the date! Great Wall Club is organizing the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley (GMIC SV) this October 19-20. The Global Mobile Internet Conference is Asia’s most influential mobile internet conference. For the first time ever, the conference is coming to Silicon Valley. The event is themed “Connecting Global Innovators” and will gather…
In a new survey conducted by Business Software Alliance, a not-for-profit organization, the results showed that only 24% of the 4,000 respondents take advantage of cloud computing applications like online word processing and email services. The rate is about 10% less than the global percentage of computer users who use cloud services. According to the…
Can Cloud Computing Stop Software Piracy? With the influx of software applications using the Software-as-a-Service model, experts claim that software piracy will eventually be eliminated. However, some pessimists are claiming that users will just find ways to circumvent everything so that they won’t pay for software use. The Business Software […] SUSE Joins OpenStack Platform…
DataWeek 2012 Conference & Festival September 22nd – 27th in San Francisco is shaping up to be the largest SF-based data conference & festival including over 100 workshops and talks, an AngelHack Big Data hackathon, SF Beta :: DataWeek Edition, and events throughout the week. Featured speakers include Jay Parikh, VP of Infrastructure at Facebook;…
SpiderOak and the Blue Private Cloud Online storage provider SpiderOak has recently started offering enterprises a way to use their cloud sync, backup, and sharing service from behind the safety of a firewall via an enterprise-targeted service dubbed the Blue Private Cloud. SpiderOak originally launched in 2007 as a clout storage provider for consumers, in the…
Online storage provider SpiderOak has recently started offering enterprises a way to use their cloud sync, backup, and sharing service from behind the safety of a firewall via an enterprise-targeted service dubbed the Blue Private Cloud. SpiderOak originally launched in 2007 as a clout storage provider for consumers, in the same year as their competitor Dropbox….