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By Stuart Lisk  Business continuity remains a major concern for enterprises as they move more mission-critical processes to the cloud. Outsourcing B2B integration while ensuring cloud security in order to effectively integrate business processes is challenging at best, and ambiguous for certai ...

By David Meltzer As a member solution provider in the Cloud Security Alliance, paying careful attention to risk and planning for improvement is second nature for my own companies’ security services. As a consumer of many start-up cloud services built completely outside the security industry, ...

By Andrew Wild It’s clear there are many compelling reasons, both financial and productivity-related, for enterprises to move IT functionality into the cloud, so it’s not surprising that they’re moving quickly to adopt popular collaboration services like Box.net, Yammer, Jive, and ...

By Henry St. Andre In 1983, I was a young electrical engineering student, when I took a job working for a small long distance company in Phoenix, Arizona. For me, Opportunity had Knocked and I had just opened the door on an amazing future. In the world of communications, things were already chang ...

By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)   Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous throughout the federal government, and while the adoption of this technology may be more widespread in the private sector, the rigor and transparency provided by the FISMA ...

By Shlomi Dinoor Is your Neuroprivilogy vulnerable? The answer is most probably yes, you simply have no clue what Neuroprivilogy is (yet)… The first step of this discussion is defining a fancy term to help educate and describe this new phenomenon. As the name suggests, Neuroprivilogy is co ...

Microsoft recently released a paper called The Economics of Cloud Computing for the EU Public Sector, which is actually valid for every other European country as well, as it is not too narrowly focused on the EU only. Additionally there is a US version of the paper. It is definitely worth reading. ...

 Cloud computing can be defined as the ultimate expression of outsourcing. Whereby the customer contracts out to the cloud service providers (CSPs) computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services), which are fundamental to run customer’s business. Inevit ...

Cloud computing seems an unavoidable fast-paced revolution. Analysts estimate that in 2012, the size of the enterprise cloud-computing business may reach $60 billion to $80 billion – or about 10% of the global IT-service and enterprise-software market (BCG 2009 Capturing the Value of Cloud Com ...

I recently had different discussions with different customers and we were looking into the key questions to ask, when you plan to move to the cloud (yes, I am working on a corresponding blog post). I was then asked whether we have an answer to these questions – well no. For sure not for a ...

I am running a whole environment at home to experience our technology. However, up to now it was all “on premise”, no Cloud integration. This has to change. Therefore I was more than happy to join our internal  Hosted Exchange 14 beta program. We are offering the hosted Exchange pro ...