cloud applications - News, Features, and Slideshows

• 3 deep, dark secrets of cloud computing

  Everybody uses the cloud. How can there be any secrets? Many companies had to learn these three little lessons the hard way, but there's no reason your business can't learn from those mistakes.

• What not to put in the cloud

  The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud?

• Where is cloud computing heading in 2013?

  Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year.

• How to support Cloud applications

  Cloud computing gives user organisations and IT alike the freedom of maneuvering and long-run flexibility that was never possible with traditional enterprise applications. However, that freedom makes for new levels of unpredictability when it comes to big deployments, and some new requirements for support.

• Employees Engage in Rogue Cloud Use Regardless of Security Policies

  Studies show that employees are engaging in rogue use of the cloud, even when IT organizations say they have clear formal cloud policies and penalties for violation of the policies.

Whitepapers about cloud applications

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  Cloud Application Security

  Businesses are overwhelming realising the benefits of adopting cloud infrastructure strategies. An alarming number of organisations lack an effective strategy to manage vulnerabilities and risk within their cloud computing environments, mistakenly assuming that “my cloud provider takes care of security for me”.

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  Cloud services provisioned outside of IT control can spell trouble

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  Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud Service

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  Cloud for Business Managers in Midsize Organisations: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly