Archives : June 2011

Vertical clouds: meeting industry needs

published on 2011/06/27 by Anthony Plewes

"At Orange Labs, we have a vision of five different scenarios: the Open Cloud, the Inter Cloud, the Vertical Cloud, the Community Cloud and the Personal Cloud," says Thierry Coupaye , Head of the Cloud Computing & Networking Research Program at Orange Labs. "They cover everything from services designed to meet the specific requirements of individual markets to those focused on delivering users' applications and data to them wherever they are and on any device."...

Vertical clouds: meeting industry needs

Cloud security: define data risks and assess provider

published on 2011/06/24 by Anthony Plewes

How comfortable are you with your confidential information in another's hands? One of cloud computing's consequences could be a loss of control. When processing is transferred to a third party, some of the responsibility for security and compliance goes with it; no wonder security professionals are nervous. Trusting your cloud computing service provider to handle your data securely is therefore essential....

how to address licensing in desktop virtualization

published on 2011/06/24 by Anthony Plewes

Planning on virtualizing your desktops? Don't forget to consider licensing. Desktop virtualization, in which the operating system and/or application used on the desktop is removed from the physical hardware, offers many benefits. It makes security more manageable, because users cannot tamper with the system or lose data stored on a client device. However, it does bring unexpected complexity. ...

how to address licensing in desktop virtualization

Four steps to outstanding application performance in the cloud

published on 2011/06/23 by Anthony Plewes

Why has performance management become such a key issue in cloud computing? Well it's simple: there is little point in moving to a cloud solution if end users can no longer use their business-critical applications effectively. We spoke to Orange Business Services expert Jean Critcher to find out about the four key issues you need to address when looking at application performance in the cloud. ...

Four steps to outstanding application performance in the cloud

Know your enemy

published on 2011/06/22 by Marcel van Wort

Major security incidents have featured prominently in the news recently. First there were the stolen diplomatic messages published on Wikileaks and then the Stuxnet worm, which was so specialized and complex that it could control a pump in a specific type of nuclear installation. These incidents are signs of the growing level of risk to sensitive corporate data. If your information assets, such as project records, bids, financial reports, credit card transactions or customer records, reach the value that makes them worth stealing, it will only be a matter of time before somebody will try. ...