While users of cloud computing services are largely aware of threats such as theft of data or Internet fraud, the risks associated with loss of control over your private life remains significantly underrated. The European Parliament conducted...

The cloud seems to be perfect for some services. It has now been around for long enough to show which industries stand to gain the most from it. Here is a list of some of the main...

The European Union is appearing to be more serious about its data protection than the US. With its two dozen countries giving rise to a patchwork of laws on how data is to be handled in the...

Depending on how you perceive security in the cloud and how you are affected, this post has both good news and bad. The bad news is that researchers have demonstrated that it is possible for one software...

A recent survey commissioned by qumu.com brings out some interesting findings. Security is not as great a concern among CIOs as it once was. In fact, the survey showed that 54.5% of the respondents shifted to the cloud because...

As Hurricane Sandy approached the East coast, data centers all over the area from Boston to Florida and elsewhere went into preparation mode to handle any eventuality. While the results of how well they withstood the hurricane...

North Carolina State University has provided research findings that show clouds can have monitoring software that constantly checks the health of your application and initiates recovery actions. In many cases, applications had bugs that emerged under some...

In a number of instances, there are doubts in the minds of practitioners about what really is a private cloud. Is this a large data center that you have built up inside your premises or could it...

Many of us who are just getting into cloud computing are worried that it will lead to a vendor lock in and that over a few years you will be enmeshed so tightly with your vendor that...

In one way you can compare a conventional data center to a castle of the 18th century with a moat around it (filled with water and crocodiles). While the castle was small, it was easily defended and...