Understanding cloud

The appetite for cloud technology is increasing. According to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index, in just two years, the Middle East and Africa will have the world’s highest cloud traffic growth rate of 41 percent. In the UAE and Saudi Arabian markets data center space has increased by more than ...

In the age of instant-everything, seconds count. The New York Times claims website users drop off after a mere 400 milliseconds, and a difference in page load time of just 250 milliseconds is enough to convey a distinct advantage over competitors¹. We all agree that great application performance is ...

CIOs are going to have to change into strategists rather than technical experts to handle the growing role of IT in business, according to a study by Cognizant. Instead of acting as administrators and problem-solvers, CIOs should position themselves as strategists vis-a-vis the board in order to address technological ...

The setup used to mitigate the risk of IT downtime is called disaster recovery. It combines scheduled off-site backups, and failover systems to run the post-disaster environment directly from the backup. This sounds complicated, but there are really only two factors to consider to manage IT risk: data and time. ...

The original article was published by The Geneva Association in their August 2014 newsletter. Cloud coming-of-age Cloud computing today refers to the process of leasing computing assets and the set of added services and assurances that accompany these assets, like provisioning services, backup systems, applications or service level agreements. ...

Penta calls on the European Commission’s European Cloud Partnership initiative to consider better legal frameworks for privacy and data protection, broader SME representation, and fostering industry competitiveness. “By letting governments and large corporations dictate policy, we risk creating a similar situation as in the US where net neutrality is ...