Even if a potential cloud services vendor gives full assurance that you, as
the customer, retain ownership of your data, there are a variety of
additional challenges to deal with, including essential legal and technical
data transferability questions. This expert guide highlights 10 "must-ask"
questions when contemplating a cloud storage investment:
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What is the cloud, really? Never before have we had a technology that suffers
so greatly from such a completely ambiguous name. Gartner Research VP Paolo
Malinverno has observed that most organizations define cloud as any
application operating outside their own data centre. This is probably as
lucid a definition as any I’ve heard.
More formalized attempts to describe cloud rapidly turn in... (more)
Our Telco Cloud Services initiative is a product innovation program for
telcos and web hosting companies, intended to develop a Cloud solutions
portfolio for them to adopt based on best practices developed from real-world
projects.
As the Cisco white paper highlights, the primary value of Cloud computing to
telcos is that it offers a platform for product innovation, and so our
objective... (more)