Cloud computing and SMEs

Cloud computing provides not only economic benefits but strategic business benefits to SMEs. Industry leaders have come together in 2013 to demonstrate these benefits to SMEs in order to drive sustainable economic growth.

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Databarracks and NCC launch Guidelines paper for ‘Disaster Recovery in the Cloud’

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, Databarracks (www.databarracks.com), in association with the National Computer Centre (NCC), has launched the Guidelines for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud, aimed at providing practical advice on disaster recovery (DR) when using cloud services.

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Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat team

Hortonworks, Mirantis and Red Hat, Inc. are working together to contribute significantly to Project Savanna under the OpenStack community guidelines to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack. This collaboration aims to provide many benefits including providing open source APIs and simpler transitions when moving Hadoop workloads between public and private clouds because re-tooling will not be required.

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Insider threats and employee-owned devices identified as the greatest risks

New findings from network security management provider AlgoSec also indicate poor change management processes lead to network and application outages.

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Hidden deep in a mountain, Green Mountain’s data centre is cooled by the cold waters of a Norwegian fjord. Working with nature, Green Mountain is saving energy and protecting the environment — leading the way to cutting data centre energy use by a third.

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