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Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...
Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security
Discussion threads 2009-11-23
No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace
Discussion threads 2009-11-10
Service Level Agreement in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing that provides cheap and pay-as-you-go computing resource is rapidly gaining momentum as an alternative to traditional IT Infrastructure. As more and more consumers delegate their tasks to cloud providers, Service Level AgreementsSLA between consumers and providers emerge as a key aspect. Due to the dynamic nature of the...
Tags: SLA, Cloud Computing, Wright State University, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2009-09-05
To host or not to host
To host or not to hostAs I stated on TwitterI would stick to outsourcing unless you're large enough to manage those resources in house, unless you particularly like 3AM "the site is down!!!!!!111!" calls; chances are good that you're not large enough. Whether you stick with GoDaddy or not is...
Tags: Managed hosting, Web technology, GoDaddy, outsourcing, outsource
Discussion threads 2009-07-20
Selecting a Microsoft Hosted Exchange Service Provider
When it comes to the decision to outsource the delivery of your organisation's messaging solution, the task of selecting the most appropriate service provider can be daunting This whitepaper from Cobweb Solutions, Europe's leading Microsoft Hosted Exchange provider, is designed to help simplify that task for...
Tags: Provider, Service Provider, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Business Services, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2009-06-16
A Survival Guide to Effective Marketing Campaigns for Today's Small Business
Your business needs to increase market share and trim costs! You must step up your marketing efforts, but are faced with limited resources and slim budgets. What should you do? Is it best to outsource your marketing activities to a services provider? Today, cheaper technology and...
Tags: PC Connection Inc., Small Business, Marketing Research, Marketing
Webcasts 2009-04-09
Weather report: Slow-moving cloud for government IT
With federal spending advancing far beyond the trillion-dollar level although a huge amount of that is going to the states, government purchasers have no shortage of friends hailing from Silicon Valley. Chief among them are locally based Google reps, who are keen on getting the federal...
Tags: Google Inc., Agency, Information Technology, Government, Vertical Industries, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
Blog posts 2009-04-01
Hotmail goes belly up; "does a Gmail"
Hotmail goes belly up; "does a Gmail"Mine is working fineNever noticed an outage on either of my Hotmail or GMail accounts. I'm not saying they don't go down but it is rare enough that it has never, even once, affected me.RE: Hotmail goes belly up; Mine was messed up for...
Tags: E-mail providers, MSN Hotmail, belly, e-mail, Google Gmail
Discussion threads 2009-03-12
Gmail breaks again; time for a change?
I'll keep this short and sweet. The answer is no, simply because Gmail offers more service and "things" to students than any other web provider on the web. The news broke this afternoon that Gmail had suffered another outage, in a series of outages over the last couple of months....
Tags: Web, Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
Blog posts 2009-03-10
Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access
Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access Big brother email...NO thanks I stay away from google and friends at the gov...eMail server already = cloud..and Google isn't needed.By definition, an email server is accessible on the web. So anyone who already runs a mail server -- Exchange or something...
Tags: E-mail servers, cloud computing, server, e-mail, e-mail server, offline e-mail access, Google Inc., E-Mail Access, Google Gmail
Discussion threads 2009-01-28
Will Cisco and AT&T Go Mano-a-Mano in 2009?
What’s in store in 2009 for Cisco?  Can you say s-e-r-v-i-c-e-s. Just put yourself in John Chambers’ shoes. You’re looking for ways to grow the company, ways that will appeal to you and me even in 2009, the year of cost cutting.  Network...
Tags: Unified Communications, AT&T Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Chances, Dave Greenfield
Blog posts 2009-01-13
Peerless Network Selects NeuStar as Preferred Vendor for Number Porting Services
Peerless Network LLC is a provider of services that simplify interconnecting voice and data traffic across disparate networks. The company had an intense focus on simplifying the interconnection process for their customers. Further, they had ambitious plans to expand the market presence threefold by the end of 2009. Peerless Network...
Tags: Network, NeuStar Inc., Aspectus, Peerless Network LLC, Networking
Case studies 2009-01-06
Will large 'cloud combines' soon be serving our enterprise needs?
Will large 'cloud combines' soon be serving our enterprise needs?Enterprise will have to be dumb, too.Since the economic blow up, enterprise business people have been shown to be short sighted and ineffectual at core business practices. This is great for cloud computing because it only offers short term gains and...
Tags: Data centers, Storage, Outsourcing, cloud computing, cloud company, enterprise need
Discussion threads 2008-12-16
Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...
Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev
Blog posts 2008-11-17
India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....
Tags: outsourcing, outsource
Discussion threads 2008-09-30
Facebook introducing new security warning feature
With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook's security team has silently introduced a new "security warning feature" alerting its users on the potential maliciousness of the third-party site they are about to visit. Is the newly...
Tags: Facebook, Security Warning, MySpace, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
Blog posts 2008-09-15
Where there's hype, there's fire?
Where there's hype, there's fire?Growing Pains?Is it that they are doing an end run? Or is it that some are seeing the power of connectivity and desire to find ways of leveraging it? Perhaps both.There is always some hype surrounding new technology but after that's gone, something...
Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Financial Planning, cloud computing, hardware, Paul, physical hardware, insurance, object-oriented programming
Discussion threads 2008-09-09
Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
Google is launching a Web browser dubbed Chrome in a move that's garnering a lot of attention--because it conveniently fits with the Microsoft vs. Google plotline--but how much should businesses pay attention to this move? First a quick recap Techmeme, Google will launch the Chrome browser and...
Tags: Google Inc., Dennis Howlett, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-09-02
Outsourcing Your Infrastructure: Ten Points to Consider When Making the Move
Tighter budgets, understaffing, and increased demands to help grow the business and to meet higher service level guarantees are forcing many IT departments to rethink their infrastructure strategy. One solution that helps in all of these areas is outsourcing. The advantage to offloading the ...
Tags: Information Technology, Outsource, Verio Inc., Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
White papers 2008-08-22
XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer benefits but no panacea for IT managers
I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I’ve seen them all â€" server-based models, thin clients, application streaming technologies, hosted ASP and newer software-as-a-service models, even Linux.  I still use a...
Tags: Desktop Management, Benefit, Server, ScriptStart, Leostream, Desktops, Hardware, Paula Rooney
Blog posts 2008-05-20
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