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Only 1 In 10 Cloud Apps Are Secure For Enterprise Use: Netskope

Posted in Commentary with tags on January 9, 2015 by itnerd

Thinking about using apps in the cloud to reduce your costs? You might want to think again. According to cloud experts Netskope, only one in ten cloud apps are secure enough for enterprise use. According to the study, organizations are employing an average of over 600 business cloud apps, despite the majority of software posing a high risk of a potential data leak. The company showed that 15% of logins for business apps used by organizations had been breached by hackers. Over 20% of businesses in the Netskope cloud actively used more than 1,000 cloud apps, and over 8% of files in corporate-sanctioned cloud storage apps were in violation of DLP (Data Loss Prevention) policies, source code, and other policies surrounding confidential and sensitive data. Google Drive, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Gmail were among the apps investigated in the Netskope research.

That should be a wake up call to businesses to tighten their use of cloud based apps. It truly isn’t that hard and it can help a company avoid a lawsuit, embarrassment, or some other really bad event down the road.

 

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Install Box On Your iOS Device, Get 50GB Of Storage Free

Posted in Commentary with tags , , on January 16, 2014 by itnerd

I had to post this as it was way too good a deal to not pass along.

If you need to store data in the cloud. Take a look at Box. Now they have always offered 10GB free to anyone which is very generous. But if you install the latest version of their app which has been completely rewritten for iPhone and iPad, they’ll give you 50GB free. There is a downside. The file upload size is limited to 250MB. Thus if you have large files to store, you’ll need to use a different service for those. But it does support Macs and PCs as well so that you can have your cloud based files everywhere.

This offer is available to new users and existing users. I’m not sure how long it lasts, thus you should act quickly.

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PEER 1 Hosting launches powerful, on-demand HPC Cloud

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 17, 2012 by itnerd

Okay. Say you’re a company who wants to have your stuff in the “cloud” but you don’t know how to get there. PEER 1 can help you with that. They recently announced a self serve cloud platform that can be deployed in minutes:

“In today’s competitive market, businesses with intense graphic processing requirements simply can’t wait months or years for improvements to their in-house IT infrastructure,” said Greg Rusu, General Manager of Zunicore, a division of PEER 1 Hosting. “With PEER 1 Hosting’s new HPC Self Serve Cloud, businesses will benefit from maximum performance on-demand – whenever they need it ­– while managing ever-tightening constraints on business resources and budgets.”

One key thing to mention is that a utility-based pricing model means that customers will pay only for what they use, when they use it, without signing a long-term contract. An important factor in today’s financial climate. If you click the press release, you’ll see all the technical details and if you’re in the market for a cloud that is secure, fast, and quick to deploy, you should take a serious look at what PEER 1 has to offer.

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