Whose Data is it Anyway?
By Nick Prescot, Information Security Analyst, Firehost In the increasingly complex world of hosting – shared, dedicated managed, virtualised and the like, there is an increasing concern about data ow...
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“Help! The NSA and GCHQ have been snooping on my data under Prism. I'm going to leave cloud and go back to on-premise as that's the only way I can be sure to keep my data safe from prying eyes.” If th...
By Marcus Cauchi of Sandler Training I have a colleague who is prospecting with a company selling AS400 PaaS solutions to financial institutions. They are about go into a meeting with over 15 of the p...
By Daniel Steeves, Director at Beyond Solutions So, they can see it all… and they really are watching! For the past six years, PRISM (under public ownership) and that other form of Big Brother, the In...
By Mark Adams, CCO of Cloudmore [quote_box_center] It's 2025 and you are the franchise owner of a city-based car dealership. The manufacturer of the cars you sell has just arrived... He says to you: “...
By Frank Jennings, Cloud Lawyer It is likely that, after Sarbanes-Oxley, the most widely feared and misunderstood piece of US legislation - at least in the cloud sector - is the Patriot Act. According...
By Jim Darragh, CEO of Abiquo We've all heard of ‘Cloud' we all understand it and know the benefits it can bring, so I'm not here to preach to the choir, but what I will do is challenge you; I want yo...
By Paul Bevan, Director of Surefire Sales We have heard a lot recently, even within the recent portals of ComparetheCloud, about the need to change the way we sell. While there is always a danger in o...
By Chris Purrington, VP of Sales at CohesiveFT CohesiveFT is company ‘born in the cloud'. Since 2006 we've been helping our customers to use cloud computing, and that whole time we've been focused on...
The leader in secure cloud hosting, delivers service to Europe. Katrena Drake of Firehost CTC: Tell us about yourself I’m Katrena Drake the director of European Operations for FireHost. I’ve worked in...
By Mark Adams, CCO of Cloudmore When our heroic Olympians started preparing for the great event that was London 2012, they had no doubt what the job was. Everyone of them was in a race, a race to be t...
By Mateo Meier, Technical Director of Artmotion GmbH. Like many countries, Switzerland openly embraces new technology and the cloud has been around for some time here. While it is widely used in many...