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Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week. 

5 Cloud Computing Advantages for the Healthcare Industry

The business case for cloud has the same basic components in every industry, but when drilled down closer into each specific use-case and benefits for specific industries, it can be helpful to see the full potential.  In this article CloudTweaks examines the top five advantages for the healthcare industry to use cloud...

We covered data gravity in part one of migration strategy best practices, and we covered connectivity of apps in part two of migration strategy best practices.  The final part of this series gets down to the nitty gritty… choosing the correct migration strategy.  In today’s blog post we’ll cover three types of migration strategies and we’ll touch on replication as well.  

BEST PRACTICE: Pick your migration strategy. 

Your best-fit migration strategy will be a function of the features of the...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week. 

DHS’s Margie Graves puts agile first

“Cloud-first” is a popular phrase these days as companies of all sizes work to find a new normal for their IT needs and developing applications.  But what about a “agility-first” approach instead of cloud?  In this FCW article, Camille Tuutti explains how Margie Graves, deputy CIO at the Department of Homeland Security instilled...

Sometimes, it pays to have an opinion.

This could be one of those times for you, if you take about five minutes to fill out this survey sharing your thoughts on Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

By completing this IaaS Cloud Values survey you can enter-to-win one of four $250 Visa Gift Cards.

We want to hear from you, the end-user, on what you value most, what you want from cloud and what you plan to use cloud for in the future. This short market research survey aims at understanding the value of IaaS...

In our latest user questions posts, we’ve talked a lot about why enterprise businesses should move to the cloud, but not a lot about how.

This week’s submitted question is a great way to start with the “how” aspect of migrating to cloud, but it also deals with a lot of the “why” as well. 

This technical professional asks, “What are some best practices to migrate from a physical datacenter to a private, or public cloud offering?”

Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles this question with...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.

Non-IT sees Cloud Computing advantages, drives adoption

This SearchCloudComputing article by Alex Barrett gives a brief overview of the corporate cloud landscape within organizations.  Barrett quotes Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready as describing the current cloud adoption status as being drive by ‘not-IT’, often by the CFO, instead.  Barrett goes on to compare IT’s dragging...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                    

Cloud Computing: HIPAA’s Role

It’s not a secret that technology is outpacing the speed at which regulations in health information can be updated.  Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services, likens the dichotomy of cloud’s speed of...

Continued from the last two customer questions post, Bluelock Solutions Architect Jake Robinson tackles the third part of the customer question:

“Can enterprises go with the complete private cloud [approach]? Or, is it better to have some portion of public cloud [as part of your strategy] for DR, etc…?”

In Part 1, Robinson sets up the basis for private cloud within an enterprise and the changes and best practices to identify when using private cloud. In Part 2, Robinson talks about the benefits...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                   

Jared Leto: The Unsung hero of cloud computing?

A modern jack-of-all trades, Hollywood’s Jared Leto has taken on movies, music and this year he moved a bit north on the California coast to tackle cloud computing.  Leto married music with cloud when he founded VyRT, a company dedicated to live streaming events in a new way.  This CloudPro...

Appearing each Wednesday, this Cloud News Report will compile our top three favorite cloud news stories from the past week.                                    

Enterprises See Clear Advantage of Cloud Computing and BYOD Combo

Two of the hottest topics of 2012 come together in Fernanda Aspe’s SearchCloudComputing article.  Aspe uses a question-and-answer format to discuss not only BYOD and cloud, but also the impact the two trends have together.  How does one create a BYOD-compatible cloud strategy...