They overwhelmingly cited a need for clearer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with cloud providers.
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Net and other Cloud providers could be the right strategy but we wait and see.
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Will people be less interested in the cloud, or will they differentitate between different cloud providers?
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The true scale-out public cloud providers are the ones creating the underpinnings for the future of computing.
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Cloud providers benefit from keeping things proprietary as long as possible, because it locks consumers into their environment.
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Plus, cloud providers will have better procedures, more sophisticated and better data recovery procedures and more sophisticated firewalls.
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As computing becomes a utility type service, cloud providers will be extensively more capable than any local staff.
At the conference, management introduced a new program aimed specifically at cloud providers.
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Joint authorization of cloud providers results in a common security risk model that can be leveraged across the Federal Government.
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The public cloud providers are a juggernaut, competing with each other to offer never-ending increases in performance and decreases in cost.
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In fact, many cloud providers have strict security policies and procedures, and likely adhere to auditing standards such as SAS-70.
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About a third of respondents to this survey are enterprise buyers, another third are cloud providers, and the final third are consultants.
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Agencies need a cloud exit strategy if they want to move their data or change cloud providers, government and industry experts say.
Of course cloud providers take different approaches to scaling and tenant management.
"We expect a whole new generation of malware to come out of things that are specifically designed for cloud providers, " said Reavis.
Because they have optimized network connections to the customers and the cloud providers, they are a natural cloud hub for a multi-cloud infrastructure.
By using an agnostic approach to the cloud, such as Deltacloud, the benefits will accrue to the enterprise and not to the cloud providers.
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Research posted last year by Lydia Leong, Research VP at Gartner, points to some of the challenges facing Cloud providers, specifically within the OpenStack community.
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Despite what seems to be a deluge of fears surrounding computing-in-the-sky, cloud providers say they are working hard to make sure their cloud services safe.
Ensure privacy and security requirements for all vendors (especially cloud providers).
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Within the data centers of cloud providers, the situation is murkier.
Before we get too far down this road of ubiquitous surveillance, real-time upload and comprehensive analytics by cloud providers, we should pause to consider the implications.
On the ITO side, however, it will be some time before pure-play cloud providers such as Amazon or RackSpace will displace traditional outsourcing providers, Jones adds.
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Meanwhile, while Amazon has been cleaning up the various problems, other cloud providers like Rackspace Hosting have been trumpeting their services as an alternative to Amazon.
Since BI and analytics are data-intensive, there has got to be a lot of nervousness about relying on outside cloud providers handling massive amounts of corporate data.
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In fact, most cloud providers should provide you with much greater performance considering the elastic nature of clouds, with all-you-can-eat servers available and ready to do your bidding.
The report acknowledges a range of benefits to conducting these massive compute projects in the cloud, but the economic benefits of using commercial cloud providers are left wanting.
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You can leave the work of setting up racks and servers to the cloud providers, pay only when you need it, and instead focus engineering resources on core competencies.
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