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Cloud computing – barriers for faster adoption

January 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
Cloud computing Security

It's been maintained by many analysts that the main barriers for a faster public cloud adoption, by organizations in particular, is the lack of sufficient security, reliability and portability (data lock-in). CIO's and IT managers normally cite these as the primary reasons for their reluctance of trusting a third-party cloud provider for storing or processingtheir sensitive, often personalized data. These are however not new concerns born with the notion of cloud computing - but also exist in … [Read more...]

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Virtualization and cloud computing

January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

One of the primary characteristics of cloud computing is the virtualization of IT resources, network servers in particular - running multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine. Delivering economical, virtualized, elastic and utility based, or pay-as-you-go, services is in essence what cloud computing is. Many organizations are already using virtualization in their data centers to rationalize and support optimal utilization strategies. The dynamic and transparent allocation of IT … [Read more...]

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The rise of hybrid clouds

January 7, 2010 By 2 Comments

It seems that many analysts, e.g. at the Cloud Computing Journal, are proclaiming that private and hybrid clouds will see a real proliferation in 2010. Security concerns of public clouds are still prevailing and many IT professionals and managers are still very reluctant to the idea of migrating private enterprise data and operations to a public cloud provider. Deploying cloud computing on-premise, in a private cloud fashion, is seen as a way to exploit many of the benefits from cloud … [Read more...]

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2010 – the year of cloud computing catastrophes?

January 3, 2010 By 8 Comments

As more companies offer cloud computing services and the number of users increase, statistics tell us that the likelihood of a serious problem occurring, for example, somewhere in the  transfer network or in different security segments, increases. We have already seen some serious 'outages' in the past, such at Magnolia, the social bookmarking site that crashed and lost all its data earlier this year. Will 2010 be the year of some disastrous encounters for cloud computing? Some analysts are … [Read more...]

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