What if a good part of your application infrastructure resides with a single cloud provider?
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However, are there risks in your business being dependent on a single cloud provider?
Of course Netsuite, like any good cloud provider, takes care to protect against these kinds of things.
In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images.
No question that the right cloud provider can address many technical concerns that a local staff cannot address.
But this approach comes with a great deal of trust on the part of the external or public cloud provider.
By picking the right cloud provider, you can reduce the complexity, lower the cost, and do a better job of protection.
Will your cloud provider still be in business a year from now?
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Knowing that a new class of users, cloud provider administrators, will have high level access to that sensitive information, this must be effectively managed.
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Just about every major cloud provider, from Amazon to Google to Facebook to Twitter (and many others) all had significant outages this year.
One cloud provider recently showed East Coast customers getting response times of under two seconds, but in Los Angeles it rose to over 10 seconds, unacceptable by most standards.
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Instead, you need to plan for alternatives should these components or services fail, using both using redundancy within the main cloud provider, and, when possible, fallbacks to alternate service providers.
Consider this scenario: A department with a pain point around visualizing and using large data sets could easily snap in a cloud provider through an easy-to-engage vendor who meets this specific need after a short departmental-led decision process.
Cloud will evolve from a one-to-one relationship between end-user and cloud provider to a one-to-many, flourishing ecosystem comprised of cloud insurers, such as CloudInsure, broker services, and other intermediaries enabling organizations to enjoy the financial and operational benefits of federated cloud formations.
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"At SugarSync, we think the mobile experience is very important for users, which is why we have been the leader in mobile innovation for personal cloud and support more mobile devices and platforms than any other Cloud provider, " said Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync.
Inside the tech industry, companies eager to tap into all that excitement and potential revenue and brand-building are tripping over each other to position themselves as not just cloud providers but as real cloud providers, official cloud providers, the one-and-only-true cloud provider, and even as Wikipedia-approved cloud providers.
But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.
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Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.
Sources confirm cloud storage provider Box.net did in fact rebuff a buyout offer earlier this year.
Perhaps the single most important factor in choosing a cloud storage provider is location.
IaaS covers most things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as a service from a cloud computing provider.
Create an off-site backup by uploading your data to a cloud storage provider such as iCloud or Dropbox (there are countless more).
Should you consider outsourcing your server to a cloud based provider?
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Overall, about half (47%) said that their company is currently involved as a cloud user while 21% said their organization is involved as a cloud service provider.
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Find out if your data will be stored in more than one data center and if your cloud storage provider will back up your data to geographically diverse locations automatically.
We think that the reputation and position of Amazon as a leading cloud services provider is suffering from the recent outages, which have been caused by a multitude of reasons from inclement weather to malfunctioning servers.
One is Workday, which is a cloud-based provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
The company said that Omnifone, a cloud music service provider, is providing the back-end for the service, including content management, music hosting and reporting functions.
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Aaron Levie is chief executive and co-founder of Box.net, a cloud content management provider that he launched in 2005 with the goal of helping people access and share all their content online.
When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up through their cloud computing service provider with slightly more effort than it takes to get lunch delivered.
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