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Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform : Cloud platform services, also known as platform as a service (PaaS), deliver a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service, often consuming cloud infrastructure and sustaining cloud applications. It facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Governments around the world have been looking at how best to reduce functional redundancy through the concept of “shared services” where different departments share a single source of function. This report looks at the promise and issues of cloud computing today in the Public Sector, along with the direction cloud needs to take in order to fulfil on its promise.
The following topics are covered:- The public sector in 2011 and beyond- What does clo ... read more
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New applications, driven largely by the economics of cloud computing raise three critical questions for those who own operations for these applications:
Who is managing your cloud applications?
How wisely are you managing your cloud applications?
What freedom do you have in managing your cloud applications?
In this paper, learn about:
What to look for from Enterprise Cloud Governance
Why are enter ... read more
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Nearly every company, from one-person startups to FTSE 100 enterprises, either has an active cloud strategy or is at least considering one. The maturity of the technology and robustness of cloud data centre offerings has overcome most irrational fears of the cloud and the technology has earned its place in the canon of acceptable business practices.
Excitement abounds over the prospect of lowered or nonexistent capital expenditure, the ability to roll out a project on a ... read more
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Cloud computing risk factors, both real and imagined, continue to lurk around every corner. But rather than running in the opposite direction as fast as one possibly can, the more appropriate response is to acknowledge that there are risk factors in the cloud, as there are with any other business computing model; to weigh those risks against potential rewards, and to exercise due diligence and best practices in mitigating those risks.
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The risks and rewards of the cloud have long been analysed, and cloud has moved beyond the "proof of concept" stage to become a viable business model within the enterprise. But as a business model, cloud is disruptive. It changes key processes, alters strategies and brings abo ... read more
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A strategic move to the cloud is often driven by two or three key considerations, most often, these include the ability to reduce capital expense and establish more predictable operating expense, and establishing a more scalable and more easily manageable infrastructure.
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One of the benefits of cloud computing is that, assuming virtualization is implemented in the cloud farm, that layer of abstraction affords some measure of protection against loss or downtime in the event of a single hardware failure. And of course, utilizing a cloud platform adds innumerable other benefits, not the least of which is the ability to access data and applications from any location, and protection against downtime from an in-house data centre failure.
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Fixed standards for cloud computing security and management are progressing rapidly as more organisations adopt the technology, it has been claimed. IT infrastructure specialist Terremark recently suggested that many large cloud computing adopters are to be found in the Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA) and they are pushing ... read more
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The private cloud computing platform will soon be the future of IT infrastructure as the technology can be easily deployed in existing data centres. According to cloud specialist Opsview, the benefits of the platform are numerous, but many firms are still getting to grips with exactly what the technology has to offer. Placeholder0James Peel, product manager at Opsview, said: "Cloud environments are still quite immature at the moment - the vendors and consumers are still understand ... read more
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Sunderland City Council is set to implement a pioneering cloud computing programme, which it hopes will save it millions of pounds over the next five years. The local authority will be working with IBM to set up the new multi-million pound project. Placeholder0The council is initially planning to use the read more
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A trusted cloud provider can often offer better security than that found on in-house infrastructure, according to a leading cloud security expert. Speaking to the Financial Times, Rupert Chapman, a security specialist at PA Consulting, said that the big players - like Amazon and Google - already offer enterprise levels of encryption to all business clients. Placeholder0Mr Chapman noted businesses that specialise in cloud infrastructure simply have more money to throw at security t ... read more
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