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Cloud Computing Abounds
Anonymous, 
22 August 2011

The Cloud Computing marketing engine continues drive curiosity.  Everyday, new success stories validate the business model.  For a long time, companies remained curious but skeptical.  The same businesses now look to turn the corner on adoption.  Unfortunately, the side effect of an overactive media marketing engine is information overload.  In the case of cloud computing, the hype obscures the path.  Green-washing, security concerns, virtualisation confusion and sheer information shock creates barriers to adoption.

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Why Small Business Hosting in The Cloud is Essential for the Evolution of SMEs
Anonymous, 
15 August 2011

In our increasingly globalised world, small businesses need an effective communications network to span the geographically spread regions of the organisation. But the business applications required to achieve this are an expensive proposition in our current economic climate. This is making it progressively challenging for youthful companies to compete with big corporations who hold seemingly infinite budgets. But we are now seeing the emergence of multi-tenanted business applications based upon a price-per-user model, or in other words, the Public Cloud.

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Compare Cloud Computing Providers
Anonymous, 
09 August 2011

Today every IT organisation and hosting provider has become a cloud computing provider with a plethora of Cloud Computing Companies entering the market. So how do we go about Comparing Cloud Providers? Firstly we need to look at areas such as long term stability, number of customers on-boarded to the platform and the focus of the cloud provider.At Compare the Cloud we speak to a large number of providers on a weekly basis and discover many innovative organisations. BUT how do we compare cloud computing providers? And what is the best way to provide a comparison?

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Why You Should Move Your Business To The Cloud
Anonymous, 
25 July 2011

The Desktop Computing era has brought computing power into the hands of the users, but left them still reliant upon IT to provision the back-end infrastructure such as networks, servers and firewalls. Upkeep on in-house infrastructure tends to be daunting and very costly. What’s more, disaster can ensue at anytime from drive failures, viruses, corrupt databases, server patches and the list goes on. You also need to pay for all the hardware and a team to manage it.

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Hedge Fund IT Security – Is your fund at risk?
Steve Pailthorpe, 
21 July 2011
The last few months have seen several major corporations fall victim to cyber attacks. Hedge Fund IT security is of paramount concern in today’s market place. RSA, Lockheed Martin and Sony are just a few of the international brands that have been tainted by recent security breaches.
 
In a recent poll, we put some of the key security questions to leading Funds and Asset Management firms. Amazingly, many hedge funds were unaware of the security issues surrounding Hedge Fund IT infrastructure.
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What is SaaS? (Software as a Service)
Alex Parker, 
01 July 2011

Software as a Service Explained - SaaS is a service based upon hosting software on centralised servers to allow access over the Internet. Google docs is a simple example of this. SaaS is currently the most popular form of cloud computing as it offers high flexibility, superior scalability and little maintenance. At Commensus, we host the application and the data meaning the end user can use their software all over the world.

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SaaS Provider NetDocuments To Open UK Data Centre
Anonymous, 
21 June 2011

With the growth of cloud computing SaaS applications for businesses, the issue of jurisdiction and where data resides is becoming ever more important.  SaaS providers are taking various avenues to address this issue but it appears that the overarching trend is for vendors to open up separate data centers and operations in the UK, EU and other parts of the world. 

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