In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images.
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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By picking the right cloud provider, you can reduce the complexity, lower the cost, and do a better job of protection.
No question that the right cloud provider can address many technical concerns that a local staff cannot address.
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.
But this approach comes with a great deal of trust on the part of the external or public cloud provider.
The provider of cloud-based HR software plans to sell 22, 750, 000 Class A shares in the offering, which is being led by investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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.
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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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.
Cloud.com has successfully penetrated the service provider market with its OpenStack-based solution and racked up some solid wins in the enterprise to boot.
Perhaps the single most important factor in choosing a cloud storage provider is location.
The company is a global IP business that is pioneering advancements in the cloud, the network, and the home to enable the desired IP Connected Home and future service provider revenue streams.
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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.
Dr. Riskin is the CEO of Health Fidelity, provider of a commercial-grade, cloud-based natural language processing (NLP) service, and is also a Consulting Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.
In June 2012, it acquired White Glove Technologies, a Texas-based managed IT services provider, in an effort to strengthen its presence in the cloud services industry and expand its managed IT services in Texas.
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.
But a successful cloud-based recovery plan requires more than just a provider, even if the provider will also host your applications later.
Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, the second largest provider of ERP software, said on an earnings call that his company has identified cloud-based Workday as a competitor.
"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.
The tradeoff when leveraging cloud computing is control, and you have to dial-in the risk of losing access to your PaaS provider.
The PTCO allowed DIR and the pilot agencies to a gain a greater understanding of cloud infrastructure offerings for state government and document options and issues with provider selection, pricing, access security, data security, credentialing, provisioning time frames, service levels, service remedy options, terms of use, billing models, interoperability, mobility, scalability, capacity management, provider compliance, and monitoring and licensing.
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