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Private Clouds Trade Benefits for Security
Corporations guard their data jealously, and who can blame them? In the Information Age, data is to business as blood is to life. So it’s not surprising that any paradigm that removes an enterprise’s direct control of its data... -
Buying New Servers Is Nothing But a Headache
Want to make the boss unhappy? Tell him or her you need to buy another server. That’s what researchers discovered when they polled more than 400 IT pros about their attitudes toward servers. The survey sponsored by Rackspace Hosting of... -
Gentlemen, Start Your Cloud Predictions
In keeping with our end-of-the-year-predictions theme, it’s time once again to crank up the crystal balls and make fearless predictions about what will happen in the coming year. This time we look at cloud computing. -
2010 eDiscovery Predictions
December is the traditional time for prognosticators to take their runes from the closet and give us insight into the future. Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind, a legal knowledge management outfit based in San Francisco, provided some insight a few... -
How to Make Your Data Center Network Ready for the Cloud
Unless you want to engage in ostrich management, you’re going to have to deal with cloud computing, most likely sooner than later. Why? Because for most companies, the benefits have become impossible to ignore. Preparing your IT architecture for... -
Who you gonna trust? Apparently not Google.
As Google tries to expand beyond the search engine business, it’s meeting resistance from some IT quarters. On the surface it may seem that IT managers are worrying about their job security as the King of Search tries to... -
Why Cloud Computing Makes Sense…for Some.
One of the key selling points of cloud computing is that a company can pick and choose IT services from a provider (or, ideally, several providers) as needed, but not have to invest in building up its own IT... -
A Cloud by Any Other Name…
Cloud computing: is it the best new IT idea today or just a shiny repackaging of familiar services? The answer likely depends on who you talk to. Debate over the virtues of cloud computing has received a good deal... -
What Is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing has been on the tip of everyone’s collective tongue for the past few months. The problem seems to be agreeing on what cloud computing actually is. Is the cloud the Internet? Can you have an internal cloud?...