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05.24.2012
An article in Sys-Con relates that higher education, an industry that is normally a slow adopter of new technology, is openly adopting cloud technology.
A fact stated was that in this industry, most schools and colleges do not realize that they have already been using cloud technology to some extent such as Yahoo! And Gmail.
The article also shared a few areas that cloud can be used to the industry’s advantage:
Of course there are the usual concerns, primarily security, obviously because confidential and sensitive information of institutions will be moved outside the physical confines of the school to a virtual and easily accessible storage area.
Other concerns include reliability, confidentiality and regulations. The article also suggests to the school administrator to make it a point to know who has access to their information.
How else can the education industry take advantage of cloud technology? Read the full article in Sys-Con and find other reasons why cloud computing will be right for higher education.
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05.23.2012
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) was yet another buzz-topic during the recent Interop. An article in Light Reading shares an opinion on this technology its reason for existence and where it is perceived to be going in the future.
In a nutshell, SDN is a technology that transforms networking through standardization. The consortium, Open Networking Foundation (ONF), has been initiating efforts into educating the market through the OpenFlow protocol.
The author of the article objectively raised questions on this rising industry:
Visit Light Reading to read the full article and see a new perspective on networking and how it has come to transform to the development of a unique architecture.
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05.22.2012
“Traditionally – and even today – security is an afterthought, bolted on,” according to Becky Swain, co-founder of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
This was part of the article written by technology and business writer, Susan Kuchinskas entitled, “8 Steps to a Secure Cloud Initiative”. She emphasizes that security needs to be part of the first stages of cloud deployment: Planning. More importantly, she writes about how to design a secure system. Here are the first few steps:
Another citation in this article is NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab CTO Tomas Sodestrom’s advice, which is to “Focus on real business problems, not IT experiments”.
Visit Esecurityplanet to read the rest of the steps and find out why these steps will help in implementing a secure cloud deployment.
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05.21.2012
Small businesses are adopting new technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and mobility with objectives of disaster preparedness in mind. This was derived from a VMBlog article on the results of Symantec’s 2012 Disaster Preparedness Survey; having 2,053 organizations with majority of respondents belonging to the C-level and senior management bracket.
Based on three major highlights of the survey, here are some findings:
Steve Cullen, SVP of worldwide marketing for SMB and cloud at Symantec says that SMBs are very much open to new technologies because it gives them an opportunity to have a competitive edge and allows them to recover from a disaster without compromising information.
The article also pointed out some recommended action plans on disaster preparedness, visit VMBlog to read them now.
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