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For the past several years, companies have been making use of cloud computing solutions. Cloud solutions offer agility and scalability that are often hard to duplicate in-house, and they offer a way for companies to meet specific business functions without large capital investments. Cloud-based storage is one of the areas that has seen relatively little activity in the business world, while it’s taken serious hold in the consumer marketplace. The success of companies like Dropbox in providing cloud-based storage solutions, however, has more and more businesses asking whether such solutions make sense for them. Here are some factors to consider when thinking about utilizing cloud storage for your company: The basic assumption of cloud storage is that you don’t need to house data internally. What cloud storage does for you is eliminate the cost of purchasing and main... (more)

The Rise of Cloud Networking

Cloud computing has historically had two foci: SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service. To date, the vast majority of cloud computing solutions have focused solely on the former. SaaS offerings in areas like CRM, ERP, collaboration, and communications have revolutionized the way that many organizations work, but IaaS solutions just haven’t been able to get the same kind of foothold. A new kind of service In the past year or two, however, cloud computing providers have started to offer some new IaaS solutions that have the potential to change the face of... (more)

Making Data Center Networks Faster

Hinting at what high-tech homes of the future might look like, researchers from Intel and University of California, Santa Barbara have started bouncing 60GHz wireless signals off the ceilings of data centers to improve bandwidth between servers, and thus improving the performance of the internet at peak times. If you haven’t studied network engineering, here’s a quick primer in bandwidth management and quality of service: In general, the world’s internet and LAN connections are massively under-utilized. You might have a 1Gbps Ethernet connection at home, but over a 24-hour perio... (more)

3 Ways iCloud Impacts Enterprise Security

Consumer technology solutions have, for the most part, maintained a healthy distance from enterprise IT operations. Sure, executives in the mid-2000s all needed help getting their Blackberry synced with your Outlook server, and company laptops have been a relatively standard thing for longer than that. By and large, however, most consumer solutions haven’t created too many issues for IT. The release of iCloud and iOS5, however, might prove to be a different story. Starting with security One of the biggest concerns enterprises are going to have with the use of iCloud for b... (more)

Six Types of Cloud Computing

Everyone is talking about cloud computing today, but not everyone means the same thing when they do. While there is this general idea behind the cloud – that applications or other business functions exist somewhere away from the business itself – there are many iterations that companies look to in order to actually use the technology. Cloud computing offers a variety of ways for businesses to increase their IT capacity or functionality without having to add infrastructure, personnel, and software. Here are six different types of cloud computing and a little bit about what they o... (more)