By Sue Poremba Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Sometimes the search for the right provider for media storage can entail making a few mistakes along the way. That’s what Jamie Aquila, CTO at Purzue.com, a site dedicated to streamlining the job search, discovered. Aquila tried a variety of CDN options before f ...

According to Jay Heiser, Gartner’s research vice president, achieving a high level of security in the cloud is still a “long hard climb” and organizations with sensitive data will likely restrain from cloud services until the situation improves. On April 11, in an online presentation to Gartner customers, Heiser said, "Finance tends to be more conservative about cloud computing than small business.” In prep ...

Nowadays, more and more businesses are shifting to the cloud as it benefits them in their businesses by giving a computational power residing on the internet. This appealing idea has attracted many enterprises to opt for cloud computing. According to IBM's Cloud Security Adviser, Martin Borrett, the word “cloud” itself is to blame for sounding much more transient than it really is. He said that a common fal ...

A popular online note taking application, Evernote is the latest victim of cyber attacks after Microsoft, Apple and social networking site Twitter. Other than technology giants, high profiles which were recently hacked include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Evernote asked its users to change their account passwords immediately after this security breach. According to compan ...

Despite the clear benefits of cloud computing, protecting proprietary data and critical workloads remains a concern for organizations. These concerns can be resolved by choosing a provider with a solid and documented approach to safeguarding your data and applications. Here is what you can do to improve cloud security: 1. Subscribe to a Cloud Service Provider. If you want to improve security without taking ...

One of the basic plus points of cloud computing is that the users no longer  have to spend great amount of finances on hardware or new software to store sensitive data. The competency of cloud computing is that it can store all data of users securely and they no longer has to worry about storing their data on their personal computer.  But, a recent study by researchers demonstrates that cloud may not be as ...

Concerns about data security on cloud were being raised even before the cloud became popular. We are constantly reminded of how cloud computing is not a good choice at all when a company fails to deliver what it claims. A similar incident took place with Doyenz the previous week, which then decided to shut down its data center in UK. If a cloud service provider (CSP) decides to terminate its operations, doe ...

Although cloud services are making airwaves and attracting more and more businesses to move to cloud technology however, few enterprises still find it challenging to adapt to this new technology. As a result of a survey conducted by Gartner, it was found out that many companies are still not using Software as a Service (SaaS) for storing and transmitting their important and confidential data, even after hav ...

Online retailing giant, Amazon Inc. experienced a power outage in June, caused problems for major websites such as Foursquare and Reddit by making them unavailable for more than 24 hours. The companies ended up losing valuable data. Though a temporary loss of power; it has left many concerns on the reliability of these digital clouds It shows that these virtual clouds are not totally secured by real clouds, ...

With the advent of cloud computing, a new era has begun with an aim to provide opportunities to save money with improved processes. The cloud fever is increasing as the time passes and is expected to take over, all IT related services. Keeping in view its benefits, some of the world’s largest companies have started using cloud services, including Apple, Amazon and Google. Although this technology has many a ...