A bird’s eye view of Microsoft’s SkyDrive SkyDrive is finally here and appears to be Microsoft’s answer to Google Drive, iCloud, Amazon Cloud Drive and popular services like Dropbox. However, this isn’t just another typical cloud storage solution, MS is rolling out a number of new features and approaches which might very well change [...]
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Share http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2005532/anitian_enterprise_security_offers_cloud_computing_assessment/index.html?… The URL http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2005532/anitian_enterprise_security_offers_cloud_computing_assessment/index.html? …BEAVERTON, Ore., March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Anitian Enterprise Security, the oldest information consultancy firm in the nation, announces a new service offering: the Cloud Computing Security Assessment. …”Anitian’s Cloud Computing Security Assessment is the ideal way to evaluate Cloud solutions and obtain an unbiased and honest evaluation of all [...]
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Small businesses in Australia should be looking to make use of cloud computing, it has been advised. … He explained that with third party providers building useful technology, organisations can make use of IT solutions they would not have been able to develop themselves. “So, for example, rather than spending thousands of dollars building an [...]
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This poll is part of research that we are doing amongst our clients, friends and fans. Results will be published in a few months. Please vote and ask your friends to vote too! ITIL® V3 Foundation ITIL® V3 Intermediate Cloud Computing Help Desk ISO/IEC 20000 VOTE Here: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/98377/btfre
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Today I presented at the Queensland chapter meeting of the itSMF usergroup. The topic I was asked to present on was on the connection between ITIL® / ITSM and Cloud Computing. Rather than talking about our Cloud Computing Certification Pathway, I decided to talk about my own experience with Cloud Computing… it’s a case study [...]
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CIOs who establish strong IT vendor management strategies can apply enterprise-wide sets of standards to relationships with IT outsourcers, cloud computing vendors and other service providers, creating efficiencies and cutting costs along the way. Have you kept up on the latest IT vendor management news and trends? Review our recent stories and take our quiz [...]
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Clean slide deck by Jason Putorti from the 2010 Bessemer Cloud Conference introducing design concepts for executives, simple tactics to improve existing products, and strategies for success in product/experience design moving forward. http://noteandpoint.com/documents/pdf/10things.pdf
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Although cloud computing could “fundamentally destroy” IT security practices and lead to an era of closed, proprietary computing it would also likely harden most networks against attacks, prominent US cryptographer Whitfield Diffie told a Gold Coast gathering of security professionals today. “At worst [cloud computing] will fundamentally destroy the current security paradigm – but on [...]
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Our latest survey on cloud computing deals with return on investment (the full report will be out this summer). In many ways, thinking about ROI of any new technology forces decision makers to cut through both their own hype and the stuff vendors manufacture to take a studied look at benefits and risks. It’s one [...]
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As the data center industry grows increasingly obsessed with energy efficiency, cloud computing presents a compelling opportunity to reduce data center power bills, according to a leading expert on IT power issues. “There are powerful economic factors pushing us towards cloud computing,” said Jonathan Koomey , a researcher who has studied data center energy use [...]
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Many ITIL® adherents are wondering what impact the cloud will bring to their IT organization. One recent article states that the cloud is raining on ITIL®. Sounds ominous. But perhaps there is a way to coexist? I’m becoming convinced that the Service Catalog is the best way to accomplish this. Service Catalogs have been around in the ITIL® [...]
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itSMF Presentation 9th of June IT Service Management in the switch from legacy system to Cloud Computing By IVANKA MENKEN, The Art of Service Delivering Cloud Computing systems with Service Management: How Information Technology develops and manages activities and processes that align to create IT services and products that matter. >> read more ITIL® ITIL® [...]
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