Tomer Shoha asked: Cloud computing can be very beneficial to businesses and individuals alike. It can make collaboration easier and done in real time; it can be used for just about anything you could do on a desktop computer, and in some cases widely available. More than this cloud computing can cut the cost associated with operating a business by making computing more efficient.Cloud Computing is a very dynamic area that has grown to include applications, information, infrastructure and services [...]
Secure Cloud Computing
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Dec 222011
How to Choose a Cloud Computing Service Provider
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Dec 152011
Sarah E Wain asked: With so many cloud computing companies on the market today it means that choosing the right one who understands your business infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult. It is therefore important that you know what your exact requirements are so that you can do research and evaluate who the best cloud provider is for you. When carrying out your research there will be certain criteria that you should be looking for. Below is a list of the [...]
Cloud Computing – A Quick Look
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Dec 142011
CW Teo asked: If you bring together ten IT specialists and ask them what cloud computing means, you would most likely get ten different answers. It does not mean, of course, that these ten professionals hardly understand cloud computing.The main reason for the different answers is that the scope of the mentioned technology had gone far beyond their initial concepts of what it had been and what it is now.Short historyIn the beginning of the computer age, the first machines [...]
Cloud Computing – The Element of Trust
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Dec 132011
John M. Stout asked: In the IT business, one frequently see businesses and government entities fielding contracts to provide wireless capabilities for their facilities and personnel. As a security professional, the first question is always: “Why?” experience has shown that, businesses and government agencies tend to undervalue the sensitivity of their data-even their mundane, everyday data. They also tend to underestimate the vulnerabilities introduced by wireless connections points, even if secured, and their potential risk to expensive systems and business [...]
Dec 122011
Kitz S asked: Client computing is the latest way of delivering computing resources. It runs on the established convention of the internet where clients and servers interact remotely and on demand. In fact, the working as well as the revenue model is so similar that it can be referred to as ‘Internet as a Product.’Cloud computing delivers services ranging from data storage to end-to-end computing. One can run the entire SAP or kindred application suit, share files, store videos, run [...]
What Cloud Computing Really Means
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Dec 032011
Syed Atif Masroor asked: Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition.As a metaphor for the Internet, “the cloud” is a familiar cliché, but when combined with “computing,” the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically [...]
Study on Computing in the Cloud
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Mar 262011
Introduction:In traditional network diagram, the cloud always represented a fairly static view of an intermediary virtual area on the Internet. It basically had no real function other than passing data from one point to the other between servers on the Internet and client where we cloud setup our applications to runThe cloud computing model changes this slightly. Instead of providing just a medium for messages to pass through between clients and severs, it tries to provide a number of services [...]
The Numerous Benefits of Cloud Computing
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Mar 242011
Cloud computing is a very important subject in the world of information and communication technologies (ICT). It has also become very important in the business sector as companies seek to maximize their profits with the latest technology available. People have different ideas about what cloud computing means. It is fairly simple. It’s basically computing over the Internet. The Internet is symbolically represented by the cloud. It delivers commercial software to businesses on demand. You share data on a network. This [...]
Anti-Spam Protection in the Cloud
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Mar 212011
The prime feature of the Cloud is that there are no time window and technical restrictions on defense, maintenance and management. This not only lets its customers rest peacefully knowing that their files are safe. Hackers never cease to a problem to any workstation; this unravels in the form of spam mails and adware which are sent to hundreds of thousands of people in a single day.The Cloud, however, is restricted by hard drive space rather than anything and it [...]
A Little Information About Cloud Computing
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Mar 172011
The next big thing in computers is cloud computing. It may sounds like something that’s fluffy and floating around in the sky, but it isn’t. Cloud computing got its name from the symbol that was used to describe it on charts. What it is, basically, is on demand hosting. Instead of all of the computing tasks being done by one dedicated machine, it is farmed out into various connections and other computers over the Internet.Cloud computing is often called utility [...]