Excerpt from Article BY AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY Asiaone Tech Sense EMERGING technologies such as Web 2.0 and cloud computing, plus new ways of transacting and accessing information through new media, have bolstered the importance of online security for public sector institutions. The public sector typically holds the personal data of its citizens, as well as [...]
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Security a top public sector ICT priority
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Asia, Cloud Computing, Data Protection and Privacy, Government Policy, Legal Issues, Security, Standards, Web 2.0
Tags: Asia·Cloud Computing·data protection·Government Policy·Legal Issues·privacy·Security·Standards·Web 2.0
Cloud Confusion Amongst IT Professionals
June 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Software, UK, software as a service
The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One (www.versionone.co.uk), has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. [...]
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Tim O’Reilly on Open Source and Cloud Computing
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Open Source, Web 2.0
Just read a very interesting article by Tim O’Reilly on ‘Open Source and Cloud Computing’ O’Reilly highlights the dangers of proprietary ‘lock in’ to cloud computing service providers such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2, Google’s AppEngine and Salesforce’s force.com. O’Reilly asks Why did the WWW end up with hundreds of millions of independent information providers [...]
Tags: Open Source·Web 2.0