A guest post by Lawrence M. Walsh.
Supporting Australian Cloud's musings over SMEs lack of understanding Cloud Computing comes this article broadening the issue to include managed services. Seems the larger 'hosted environment' industry has plenty of work ahead to inform and advise the prospect base.
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Virtualisation versus Cloud Computing; are they the same?
A guest post by Charles Buck.
Continuing Australian Cloud's search for the ultimate regular person's guide to Cloud Computing, we found this article explaining the difference between vitualisation and Cloud Computing by independenceIT co-founder and COO, Chip Buck.
The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualizations is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true. It is critical to remember that the principle concepts behind both cloud computing and virtualization...Cloud Data Jurisdiction; expert opinions
A guest post by Jonathan Crossfield.
Australian Cloud has long asked 'where is your data held' and posted independent expert commentary on this subject. Jonathan's post introduces a new dimension being the privacy laws of the jurisdiction where your host provider is headquartered.
Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the US Patriot Act
"Miss Scarlett in the Bedroom with Reverend Green... wait, that's not right"Australia: A high-flying cloud?
A guest post by Nicholas Gruen and Simon Molloy
Australian Cloud is an independent business making its way among the big crowd/ cloud. Our focus is on Australia and New Zealand business so this article attracted our interest as we wait for the Cloud Shift to arrive in our markets.
Australia: A high-flying cloud?
Sun Microsystems’s catchphrase of the late 1980s and 90s 'The network is the computer' seems more and more prescient. In 2011 devices and the network to which they are attached are becoming inextricably part of one another. We are heading for a world in which constellations of smart mobile devices delivering ever more sophisticated services interact with the...Collateral Damage In The Cloud – Is Your Data At Risk?
A guest post by Jonathan Crossfield.
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Don’t think concerns over data jurisdiction affect you and your business? Some businesses take it very seriously, others treat it as scaremongering. After all, why would the US government or the...
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Australian Cloud has long asked 'where is your data held' and posted independent expert commentary on this subject. Jonathan's post further explains the risk factors associated with off-shore data storage.
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Don’t think concerns over data jurisdiction affect you and your business? Some businesses take it very seriously, others treat it as scaremongering. After all, why would the US government or the...
Wait! What is Cloud Computing?
A guest post by Allison Midori Reilly
Cloud computing can do everything, or only some things if...
The ABC of Cloud Security
A guest post by Walter Adamson
It's clear that security ranks high if not the highest in the general concerns about companies migrating to the cloud. This is despite reputable research organisations like Aberdeen reporting "Web Security in the Cloud: More Secure! Compliant! Less Expensive!"
Drawing on the findings from multiple benchmark studies on best practices in content security and security software as a service, Aberdeen’s analysis shows that users of cloud-based web security had substantially better results than users of on-premise web security implementations in the critical areas of security, compliance, reliability and cost. Compared to companies using on premise web security...
What is cloud computing? Crikey a Dumb Question for Smart People
Since Australian Cloud discovered business and consumers have no idea what the Cloud is our search continues for qualification; our aim to eventually publish a 'Definitive Guide to Cloud Computing for SMEs and the average person'.
Back on 13 July 2010, Crikey published an article we found enlightening so re-publish it here in full with permission. (Crikey is Australian independent journalism offering a website and subscription daily email service). Interesting to note the release date is bang in the middle of the Read more
10 Questions when Data Localisation stalls cloud computing
A guest post by Walter Adamson.
We often see data localisation bought up as an issue - a reason not to adopt cloud computing. There are the black and white cases, the gray and emotional cases, and the government.
The government is the government; they have money and they can spent it how they want and they can go play somewhere else if they don't like you. That's also the bottom line - the more games government play the more it costs the taxpayer, simple as that. That extra cost may well be justified, for the reasons that the government would wish to promote.
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Australia or… where is YOUR data stored? Thought we’d ask before your clients do.
WELCOME TO A PETABYTE! (1,073,741,824 MB)
Data storage in the US is cheap compared to Australian based storage. Yes, OK you knew that but this is exacerbated for Cloud Providers who need massive storage which is best accommodated by ‘server farming’ in the USA.
Multi-tenancy is a benefit for all Clouds, it is how providers make it work, just US farms are huge!
This is Apple's billion dollar 46.5 Hectare server farm, recently constructed 65 KMS from Maiden, North Carolina in the USA.
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This is Apple's billion dollar 46.5 Hectare server farm, recently constructed 65 KMS from Maiden, North Carolina in the USA.
According to
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