As the race to acquire clientele in the cloud computing arena escalates, service providers are taking onerous steps to ensure that their data security and privacy controls are adequately maintained and safeguarded. The aggressive marketing campaigns of service providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, are going to great lengths to build the trust of prospective clients. […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
Vivek Kundra’s tenure as the Nation’s first Chief Information Officer will likely be remembered for designating much of the federal government’s IT architecture towards cloud-based services. The former CIO’s vision has recently come under scrutiny by the two most prominent agencies within the U.S. government – the Pentagon and State Department. While the main selling point for cloud-based technology is cost […]
Microsoft officials warned customers of its BPOS bundle of hosted Exchange, SharePoint and Lync on Monday, May 10, that an upgrade of Exchange Online was slated to begin on May 12. Microsoft didn;t tell users to expect any downtime as a result of the upgrade. It seems something went wrong before May 12’s upgrade ever […]