How to Build a Secure Cloud Environment – Study
Symantec has presented its vision for a secure, agile and efficient cloud. Within five years, companies would operate in a world of cloud, virtualization and mobile computing, converged IT; a world in which the cloud will be much more secure.
Today, cloud computing technologies are changing rapidly. A survey conducted by Symantec reveals [...]
IDC: CRM, Collaboration and Virtualization Outpaces other Software Market Segments
Economic difficulties damaged western European market performance of global software, while Russia, USA, China, Latin America and other regions continue to evolve positively. However, according to IDC, 2012 marks the beginning of a growth period with more conservative than those recorded in 2010 and 2011.
Software applications are the fastest growing segment, with [...]
Companies Lack Cloud Security Policies and Standards – Study
A recent study, conducted by the Symform, the cloud backup provider, found that 20% of companies have no security policies or clear usage standards, to guide employees when using cloud applications or access corporate information from other devices.
The survey queried nearly 500 companies including 18 percent representing enterprises, 34 percent from small [...]
Big Data’s Importance to Business Marketing
Large companies continue to churn out big data. At one time or the other, marketers don’t know how to take advantage of it. In a recent Gartner report, it is expecting that Chief Information Officers will shell out <a title="Big Data, The Key to Enterprise Inbound Marketing Read more at http://www.business2community.com/marketing/big-data-the-key-to-enterprise-inbound-marketing-0318196#sqHjiy5xRcJMJ36E.99 " [...]
Network Design is Key to Cloud Computing – Study
In a research by Bain & Company in the Middle East, it revealed that cloud computing revenues can reach almost $150 billion in 2020, which accounts to 8% of the total technology expenditures. The research, titled “The Five Faces [...]
Symantec Introduces ‘Safe Cloud’
In the recently staged Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California, Symantec presented its “safe cloud” vision for cloud computing. According to Symantec, a “safe cloud” is different kinds of interconnected cloud with various architectures and used with various devices to connect to the cloud. Although the presentation didn’t include any surprising predictions, [...]
A New Breed of Big Data Service Providers
Every day there are more and more companies that handle untold amounts of information, where we talk about petabytes. If we add the management of data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, there comes the concept of Big Data.
Big data then refers to a set of data whose size is [...]
Hadoop Best Practice: Facebook
Hadoop is a free Java framework for distributed applications and intensive data management. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data.
With Hadoop, companies discover and put into practice new techniques for analysis and retrieval of data, techniques previously impossible to implement for reasons of performance, cost and technology. [...]
Cloud Computing – Status Quo on Policy Challenges, Data Privacy, Security and Free Flow of Information
Cloud computing service providers are steadily increasing their reach as they continue to provide service outside of their home markets while using service delivery models that require the transmission of information across borders. In this article, we examine the hurdles that face cross-border cloud computing, particularly with regard to main policy challenges including data [...]