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Infrastructure Security: Getting to the Bottom of Compliance in the Cloud

For many business functions commonly run in the cloud – hosting websites and wikis, for example –
it’s often sufficient to have a cloud provider vouch for the security of the underlying infrastructure

Cloud computing and the enterprise

JUST MORE HYPE? Everywhere you turn, it seems that the conversation is about cloud computing. To some extent this is the latest hype, but there is also tremendous substance behind the buzz. Enterprise and public-sector CIOs need to reduce costs, improve efficiency and speed customer services, making hosted applications an increasingly viable option. At the […]

Cloud Computing Forecasts: “Cloudy” Future for Enterprise IT

Today, the Cloud era has only just begun. Despite lingering doubts, growing concerns and wide-spread confusion (especially separating media and vendor spun hype from reality), the IT industry generally views Cloud Computing as more appealing than traditional ASP /hosting or outsourcing/off-shoring. To technology-centric startups and nimble entrepreneurs, Cloud Computing enables them to punch above their […]

Cloud Computing on the Horizon

From: http://telemedicinenews.blogspot.com/2009/12/cloud-computing-on-horizon.html Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Posted by Carolyn Bloch at 8:26 AM Researchers from the Pervasive Technology Institute at the Digital Science Center at Indiana University are working on developing and using cloud computing techniques to support life science research. NIH awarded the university $1.5 million in grant funding to construct an experimental supercomputing […]

IDC: Cloud, Mobile To Drive IT Growth In 2010

An analyst firm believes consumers and businesses will spend 3.2% more on telecom, hardware, software and services than in 2009. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek December 4, 2009 Mobile devices supplanting the PC as the primary client for accessing the Internet and the emergence of “enterprise-grade” cloud services are among the transformative technologies expected to rock […]