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What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing can be anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. Cloud services are categorized as, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service or Software as a...

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Microsoft Windows Azure

Is Microsoft into cloud computing? It may be considered as a relatively late comer in the cloud computing market but it’s doing big steps! The recent long-term deal with The State of Minnesota is a big...

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Online service providers and Data Centers

Do your research carefully before outsourcing your internal IT services. Many companies function more efficiently and profitability by outsourcing certain business tasks or functions to other...

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Private Clouds – Part 1: HP CloudStart

Many organizations are still undecided whether to venture into cloud computing! Few weeks ago, moving to the cloud meant the outsourcing of the IT infrastructure to third-parties as the main players...

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Private Clouds – Part 2: Eucalyptus

In the first article of this series – Private Clouds, we have seen an overview of HP’s CloudStart. Enterprise solutions do not come from the major hardware vendors only! The open source community has...

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Private Clouds – Part 3: VMware vSphere

At the forefront of virtualization we find VMware with a suite of products and it’s no surprise that VMware offers a solid private cloud solution. With the leverage they have in the virtualization...

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Cloud Update – Rackspace acquires CloudKick

In mid December one of the top Cloud hosting providers, RackSpace announced the acquisition of CloudKick. CloudKick offers a web application that helps organizations manage their cloud servers....

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Skipping in-house virtualization!

From time to time I come across analyst reports stating that many mid sized organizations are reluctant to implement virtualization infrastructure and may decide to go for the cloud. So, I decided to...

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Cloud Update – prospects for SMBs

According to Wall Street Journal, many SMBs are expected to move to Cloud solutions this year. Their main interests are the reduced running costs and the disaster recovery capabilities that the cloud...

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What’s your storage?

The development of online computer storage can be mapped as follows: Floppy Disks: Low storage density / slow storage speed / self-responsibility for data / localized access Hard Disks: High storage...

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eDiscovery in the Cloud

eDiscovery in the Cloud may become a daunting task if not planned in advance. As your resources move to the Cloud in some faraway datacenter your control diminishes and keeping track of the dynamic...

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SMBs main concerns about Cloud Computing

A survey by ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) back in November of 2009 showed that Confidentiality of corporate data, privacy, and data availability and integrity are the three...

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Support for OpenStack Platforms

Rackspace are now offering support services to organizations running OpenStack as their cloud operating system. Rackspace Cloud Builders is a new business that offers training, certification and...

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HP Converged Infrastructure

On March 22, 2011 HP released a press release stating that it’s Converged Infrastructure private cloud solution is attracting large organizations in the healthcare and finance industries. These...

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Windows Server 2008 R2 available on Amazon’s EC2

Amazon announced the support of Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Standard 2008 R2 on their EC2 platform. Therefore, customers can implement the new features, such as support for IIS 7.5,...

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Cloud Opportunities and Risks

A lot of talk has been done about cloud computing and the most cited topics remain security and compliancy in the cloud, and rightly so! However, having experienced a bit of hands-on with Public cloud...

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Today’s Network Security Challenges

According to James Lyne, Director of Technology Strategy at Sophos the following trends has the major impact on your network security and defense strategy. Mobile networks: the connect-from-anywhere...

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Online Password Cracker

CloudCracker is an online password cracking service aimed at penetration testers and security professionals to help them verify the security of WPA protected wireless networks. It can also be used to...

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Amazon EC2 is a business model!

Amazon’s Cloud Computing service has evolved into a business model that caters for all kind of situations encountered by different businesses.  In particular Amazon’s EC2 various offerings fulfill the...

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5 Top priorities to consider when designing security

The impact of recent trends in Cloud computing, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), Social Networks, and other technologies has taken organizations back to the drawing board when designing security. The...

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