Security in a Cloudy World

by Jeff Echols

The term ‘cloud computing’ has become so ubiquitous in IT that today, both large enterprises and small-to-medium-sized companies are adopting a variety of cloud-based services. But what security impl...

Mission Critical: Have You Tested Your DR Plan Lately?

by Eric Webster

Companies are constantly faced with the challenges of strategizing, adapting, accommodating and keeping pace with the vast change in the technology market. With the industry concerns such as security, co...

A Prenuptial Guide to Successfully Marrying Big Data and the Cloud

by Robin Schumacher

It seems like a marriage made in heaven: big data and cloud computing.

Big data has certainly grabbed its share of the spotlight these days. Earlier this year, Forbes writer John Furrier wrote: “We al...

It's a Lock: CipherCloud's Encryption Technology Offers Gateway to Security

by Kim Borg

Many enterprise-sized companies, especially those that deal in highly sensitive data, such as medical, financial and health care organizations, understandably remain more than a little hesitant about movin...

BYOD: How to Manage a New Era of IT Support for Employee-owned Mobile Devices

by Shahin Pirooz

BYOD sounds like a recipe for happy hour. But in today’s enterprise environment, BYOD – or bring your own device – is less than a happy occasion for the IT staff.

Executives and employees alike are...

Quelling Concerns About Cloud Security With a Top-notch IaaS-based System

by Adam Stern

It’s no wonder businesses moving their computing operations to the cloud are feeling a bit insecure these days. There is a considerable amount of information being disseminated about cloud security, and ...

Object Storage: Where Cloud Computing and Big Data Meet

by Tom Leyden

At the NAB 2012 show last month, the storage industry was more visible than ever, and the buzzword emerging from the event was ‘object storage.’ The term is inextricably tied to storage clouds and cert...

The Cloud: Resource or Liability?

by Olen Pepple

Cloud computing is now part of the business vernacular, a term that circulates freely amongst companies and executives alike. But cloud computing also risks becoming a meaningless expression: an overused...

Looking for Great Mobile Business Apps? They Don't Exist...Yet

by Jamie Barnett

It has become a common occurrence: Tired of juggling multiple devices, a C-suite executive approaches the company IT manager and requests access to the corporate network on a new tablet or smartphone p...

Embrace Your Data and Keep it Safe

by Margaret Dawson

No one would question the importance of network security. It has long been an IT focus and discipline about which we can become an expert and specialize in specific areas or technologies and for which...