The CIO of General Electric, Jim Fowler, is taking GE into the cloud. In the next three years, he plans to integrate 9,000 applications into a public IaaS. This will cause 30 of their data centers to now condense into just a few. This transition will not be an easy one. GE operates tens and […]

Decisions can have long-term ramifications that are not always easy to change. I do a lot of backcountry backpacking in the Sierra’s and a hike is often selected as much as a year in advance. Once a particular hike or route is selected, all other activities revolve around that hike. By the time you get […]

Recently in San Francisco, Google had their Cloud Platform’s user conference which allowed attendees to hear from Joe Kava, VP of data center operations. Below are Joe Kava’s answers directly on how Google designs, builds, operates and secures their data centers globally. Q: What is Google’s security model for data protection? A: Google’s data center […]

Could it be true that the greatest threat to your company is not outside hackers, but your own staff? Ipswitch File Transfer, a data monitoring software company, asked 555 IT professionals across the globe about their file sharing habits. What they found is that while 76% of IT professionals say it is important to securely […]

For many years, cloud providers had a lot of security provisions and compliance regulations. In addition, public cloud providers were not helping their customers follow compliance. New guidelines are finally available that expresses the safety uses of the cloud and the value that it can provide for businesses. With these new guidelines, it’s important to […]