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Latest News Nov 14, 2012 Accessing The Real Risk Of Cloud Computing Accessing the Real Risk of Cloud Computing: Is the Sky is Falling or are the Failures a Blip on the Radar Screen? It’s interesting to follow the big money that big companies are spending. It’s a lot like watching a huge ocean liner set sail for exotic places or a stretch limousine glide though town. These oddities can’t help but be seen but I often wonder if anyone is really watching. ... Read more... Top 25 European Rising Stars 2012: Zyncro Top 25 European Rising Stars: Zyncro …….Stay Socially Zynchronized in Enterprise 2.0: Yours Zyncro Zyncro is a Spanish cloud startup, with its base in Barcelona. It has spanned its reach to seventeen other nations (with individual subscribers in a total of 27 nations) and its active fan base has reached 140,000. Its latest mark of success came during the ... Read more... Is Cloud Computing The Biggest Green Technology? Is Cloud Computing The Biggest Green Technology? Global warming and climate change are on top of world's list of concerns and one of the reasons is our dependence on dirty energy from fossil fuels. We all consider the transportation sector as the main pollution source of our atmosphere, but is the IT industry really exempted from the blame? ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Data, Data Everywhere - A Special Report on Managing Information Learn how businesses are transforming themselves based on the abundance of data, and benefits found in the various uses of information and the new methods of visualizing data. Is the Office 365 University Suite Really Necessary? Is the Office 365 University Suite Really Necessary? We are all used to doing things a certain way and sometimes even the smallest digression from that pattern means that we will not feel comfortable with the new situation. In the case of the Microsoft Office suite the simplest thing like the continuous word count in the lower left corner that MS Word displays or the way Excel has a specific style of formatting the cells, can be the reason why many people have not moved to the free alternate program ... Read more... How To Prevent Google Apps Data Loss How To Prevent Google Apps Data Loss According to Google, more than 4 million businesses use Google Apps. It provides core collaboration and communication tools like Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and Drive. In this context, it is obvious that business users trust Google's cloud to run critical parts of their data and systems. Google Apps includes critical security features and disaster recovery capabilities specifically designed to keep data safe and secure. But I want to make it clear that all these features are created to recover from the disasters that affect data from system failures, not from those that affect your business, like human error. ... Read more... How Cloud Computing Companies Make Their Data Centers Hacker-Proof How Cloud Computing Companies Make Their Data Centers Hacker-Proof Cloud computing naysayers have long cited security and privacy as their number one concerns. While more and more companies are adopting cloud services, many corporations and small businesses are still hesitant to embrace the cloud because of concerns about lax security and ... Read more... Featured Free Resource Travel & Expense Management Benchmarking Take a look at PayStream's 2012 Travel and Expense Management Benchmarking report profiling the use of expense management automation solutions at U.S.-based enterprises. Solving Problems On The Cloud Part 1: Netflix's Example Of Strategic Problem Solving Solving Problems On The Cloud Part 1: Netflix's Example Of Strategic Problem Solving Technical, marketing, and personnel, are all problems you may be facing in the cloud today.  To deal successfully with these issues we must avoid the common mistake of fixating on the immediate issues surrounding the problem and start taking steps to move the roadblocks out of the way. Netflix demonstrated this when they avoided a prolonged cloud outage courtesy of their friends at Amazon. ... Read more... Where Hardware Meets The Cloud: Arraying High-End Server Platforms Where Hardware Meets the Cloud: Arraying High-end Server Platforms The web has brought out hardware machinery spot-on to cloud-based applications. Some of these servers are so scalable in magnitude, mindboggling in performance and high-end in gigabytes capacity, that they even sound a little alien. Suddenly they are here and those who only thought of them as data processors without a name can now identify with them, courtesy of cloud computing platforms. Intel, through its Tyan partners, is an example of companies that have enabled this to happen through its cutting-edge processing units. These can be discussed under the following headings. ... Read more... Businesses With Their Heads "In The Cloud" Have An Advantage Businesses With Their Heads "In The Cloud" Have An Advantage Cloud-based services are rapidly revolutionizing the business world. Although the concept behind the technology isn't new (web-based e-mail, which has been around for more than a decade, is an everyday example of cloud technology ) the impact is only beginning to trickle down to businesses. ... Read more... You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from CloudTweaks Media. 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