Our Cloud services were launched some time ago but it took longer than anticipated to create the contracts due to various issues, due in no small part to some licensing arrangements with software vendors not being as clear as they should be, but the bigger issues were around ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. (more…)
Chris Evans explains the significance of the Cloud revolution for those who don’t work in Technology in October’s STEP Journal. To see the full article, please click here.
I just noticed a good blog at CIOCOO regarding the relevance of jurisdiction in relation to cloud services. There’s no doubt that regulated businesses can be very sensitive to the risk of data loss or disclosure and many cloud service providers underestimate their clients’ security concerns. In fact privacy concerns appear to be one of the biggest inhibitors to moving to public cloud services (see my last blog). (more…)
A report at Silicon.com points to recent research showing that small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are accepted as public cloud providers’ target market, are either ignorant or sceptical of cloud. Ignorant possibly because the industry often uses jargon to try to get the message across and sceptical probably because they have heard the arguments about the Internet and other so called paradigm shifting technologies before. (more…)
According to this infographic from Wikibon the estimated amount of data held in the digital universe is 1.2 Zettabytes. What’s that in real money? – 75 billion iPads of course…
