Tag: Cloud Platform

  • A DATA-CENTRIC APPROACH TO CLOUD

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    The biggest security problem with protecting data on a cloud is that there isn’t just one cloud. The typical enterprise has relationships with several cloud platforms, the official ones that IT approved as well as the shadow connections made outside of IT. Beyond that long list, however, a company has to contend with the hard…

  • THE POTENTIAL OF CLOUD, PART 2: DATA SECURITY ENSURES INNOVATION

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    The cloud untethers businesses. It offers them freedom to rise above physical hardware and expand their global infrastructures through universally accepted applications that continuously improve almost every element of an enterprise—from operations and production to customer service and beyond. Application architectures that run on cloud—even when working in concert with on-premises systems—accelerate digital transformation, engender…

  • THE POTENTIAL OF CLOUD, PART 1: FIRST, BUSINESSES NEED TO GET THERE

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    With all the talk about the potential of cloud computing, you’d figure that many enterprises would have very few workloads left on their physical servers. Well, talk hasn’t necessarily translated into action. According to several studies, many organizations have yet to move the majority of their workloads to the cloud. Four years ago, McKinsey found…

  • UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF SECURE DATA TO FUEL INNOVATION

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    Migrating to a cloud computing platform, most experts agree, considerably increases the enterprise’s need for data security. Data of varying sensitivity—data that was once contained and maintained within a controlled environment—has now moved beyond the safe confines of a secure corporate firewall, in what is now known as the “perimeter-less enterprise.” In fact, the expansion…