Given its rapid adoption, virtualization can potentially benefit billions—or serve as a vector for calamity. Even as it opens new avenues of productivity, cost-savings, and environmental relief, virtualization alters a company’s infrastructure profoundly, testing its ability to monitor and manage the new environment. Virtualization is enabling the global evolution to Cloud computing, but along with that comes the challenge of securing applications and data in that Cloud. The … [Read more...]

Whenever the subject of cloud computing comes up there are two facts that seem to dominate the conversation.  The first is that enterprises and small business would desperately like to make greater use of the explosion in new cloud services and offerings.  However the discussion will usually rapidly turn to the fact that the potential of the cloud remains out of reach for many business uses.  The reason?  Security. Concerns over the security of information in cloud infrastructures, … [Read more...]