Ray Stafford

Cloud security: Separating fact from fiction

October 3 2011 @10:16 AM
By: Ray Stafford
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As we’ve stated before, the top concern clients and prospects give us for moving to the cloud is security. I work with the insurance sector, and the insurance cloud and security topic is particularly acute given the amount of sensitive data that providers must protect. The perception is that cloud computing doesn’t offer the security that a standard hosting model does.Yet this is not the reality. Cloud solutions can actually reduce security risks. More...
Steven Starace

Staying ahead of the curve with SaaS cloud computing

September 14 2011 @11:17 AM
By: Steven Starace
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As enterprises increasingly become consumers rather than providers of IT, cloud computing—and software as a service (SaaS) in particular—offers a compelling alternative. By providing low-cost, on-demand access to state-of-the-art applications, SaaS-based solutions can help enterprises fast-track their technology modernization at no great expense to themselves. More...
Brian Cann

Virtual private cloud: One foot in the cloud, one in your infrastructure

September 9 2011 @11:56 AM
By: Brian Cann
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Although cloud computing solutions have matured greatly during the past 18 months, clients still have questions on how best to take advantage of this delivery model. Many public cloud offerings require you to go “all in,” meaning your entire application and database must be moved into the cloud. This “all in” approach for enterprise applications is something that concerns many companies and government agencies, citing reasons such as the size or sensitivity of the database and performance issues, to name a few. More...

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