A recent study of Ponemon Institute reveals that cloud computing vendors and customers are not paying much importance to security issues. According to “Security of Cloud Computing Providers” study, security is a low priority for cloud service providers and their customers. From the survey respondents, 73 percent of U.S. service providers and 75 percent of…
Cloud computing is significantly influencing the IT landscape: from government, industry bodies to public and private organizations – more and more organizations and evaluating and implementing cloud strategies. However CIOs are facing a broader set of questions that need to be answered which will impact how IT is being delivered to their organization. At a…
Cisco announced on Tuesday that it plans to acquire newScale, in a deal that would ramp up its cloud computing services. NewScale, provides self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. The company, founded in 1999, is privately held and based in San Mateo, CA, and has more than…
Dell has rolled out at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2011 conference in Orlando, new subscription-based private cloud services for healthcare providers. These cloud services will provide a more streamlined access to patients’ archived information for easier sharing and management of the information between physicians, hospitals and other point of care. These…