The security breach at Yahoo! last month revealed that businesses and enterprises are ignoring cloud risks in their bid to move their operations into the cloud. Cyber theft and crime is on the rise with virtual vultures...

Safety issues regarding cloud based technology has always been the Achilles heel when it came to acceptance by resident IT teams. With growing maturity of cloud service platforms, you can keep your data in the cloud secure...

With increasing involvement of Chinese cloud computing vendors in the American business environment, a Congressional commission has been appointed to determine if American security is compromised by Chinese involvement. Concerns regarding the security and safety of sensitive...

As with every IT solution for businesses, the cloud has its own set of downsides. While the overall result can be seen in the form of faster, better and cheaper project management, businesses can trip over certain...

A recent whitepaper on cloud adoption and security brings out some interesting issues. While there is no doubt about the cloud becoming the medium of choice for most new computing setups, a certain amount of care and...

Continuing our discussion on the errors people and companies make when they move to the cloud, here are some mover avoidable pitfalls.     Error # 4 – forgetting who is responsible – regardless of how good...

While there is a steady growth in the use of cloud computing in corporate premises, there is an additional issue of rogue IT that deserves mention. This pertains to workers using cloud services that are not officially...

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 US government is moving to the cloud with some speed, and now it is the turn of the US Army. The Army Private Clouds Contracts have been awarded and the Army cloud strategy appears to be...

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...