Many organizations are still undecided whether to venture into cloud computing! Few weeks ago, moving to the cloud meant the outsourcing of the IT infrastructure to third-parties as the main players were the online or managed service providers. If an organization is bound with regulatory compliance or is concerned about security and no provider can...
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Do your research carefully before outsourcing your internal IT services. Many companies function more efficiently and profitability by outsourcing certain business tasks or functions to other organizations that have the required personnel, expertise, equipment, or technology to accomplish these tasks. Whether it’s an IaaS, SaaS or PaaS implementation the service provider’s underlying platform will...
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Given that all software or service requirements are met by a MSP, organizations need to consider other important aspects of outsourcing managed services before actually take a decision. Bandwidth is one factor that plays an important role when choosing a service provider while, other factors include data center/s geographic location/s, inter-data centers bandwidth, management...
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In last week’s article – a world of threats-information warfare, we have seen a couple of data theft incidents from internal employees with the major case being an employee’s reaction to the dismissal from his duties and job. This article expands further the discussion about the risks organizations face from external entities (which are...
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Nowadays, we participate in ecommerce activities on regular basis without appreciating what goes on in the background and how these services are monitored for security. In the following article, you will find brief overview of the main steps involved when performing online payments and how these services are regulated by the authorities. A customer...
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One of the major players in cloud computing – Amazon, are SAS 70 compliant. A small step forward towards safer environments as many commented but I see it as an important move – well done Amazon! As I stated in previous articles, cloud computing has to proof that that it is getting safer and...
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