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10 Disaster Preparedness Questions to Ask Your Cloud Services Providers

A typical cloud contract contains uptime clauses and credits for missed service levels, but it often fails to adequately protect the enterprise customer. Here are 10 questions the intelligent cloud customer can ask to make sure they are sheltered fro

Jul 19, 2012 6 mins

Disaster Recovery IT Strategy Outsourcing

Will Tech Industry Ever Fix Passwords?

What LinkedIn and other recent breaches tell us about widespread security risks as we embrace social media and cloud applications in the enterprise.

Jul 16, 2012 11 mins

CIO Data Breach Intrusion Detection Software

Do Customers Share Blame in Amazon Outages?

A number of high-profile Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages temporarily brought down services by customers like Netflix and Pinterest in June. While Amazon bears the burden of blame for the outages, should customers also take some responsibility for f

Jul 12, 2012 7 mins

E-commerce Software Internet SaaS

How IT Leaders Can Negotiate a SaaS Partner Contract

All companies great and small will eventually work with a SaaS provider. In most cases, the standard contract should suffice, but CIOs will never know what they can add (or subtract) if they don't ask.

Jul 10, 2012 8 mins

IT Strategy SaaS Technology Industry

Cloud Governance Principles Born on the Fourth of July

Just as the same old Articles of Confederation wouldn't work for the newly independent United States, the same old IT governance principles won't work as your business continues to move to the cloud. Just make sure your cloud governance pol

Jul 5, 2012 6 mins

Developer IT Governance IT Strategy

CIOs Warming (and Moving) to Cloud Technology

Research from Host Analytics and Dimensional Research indicates that IT is spending significantly for cloud services. CIOs are practicing what they preach, too, as IT departments outpace all other business units in cloud adoption.

Jul 5, 2012 6 mins

Developer IT Strategy Virtualization

Empire Strikes Back: Comcast Moves to Cap Data, Limit Choice

All you can eat wireless is dead, and now it's disappearing for wired broadband. Even worse is that the cable giants want to crush Netflix and other competitors.

Jun 28, 2012 3 mins

Comcast Internet Service Providers Small and Medium Business

Red Hat Bets on Open Hybrid Cloud

During his keynote at Red Hat Summit 2012, Red Hat's Paul Cormier outlined four new products and services designed to help IT customers adopt the open hybrid cloud.

Jun 28, 2012 5 mins

Linux Private Cloud Server Virtualization

How NASA Helped Open-Source Cloud Take Off

The government agency famous for Tang and memory foam is also the unlikely (and largely unknown) source of an equally important endeavor. Learn how NASA's long-standing culture of openness, combined with the Obama administration's official

Jun 28, 2012 7 mins

Developer Government Government IT

Olympics Website Leans on Open Source, Akamai for Winning Results

Like the athletes themselves, the official website of the London 2012 Olympics gets only one chance to reach peak performance under intense pressure. To meet that demand, the site has been load tested to handle a million unique visitors per hour. Rea

Jun 26, 2012 5 mins

Enterprise Architecture Internet Virtualization

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