Cloud Services
- What does cloud computing mean to you?
- How do you begin to use cloud computing?
- How safe is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is being heralded as the Next Big Thing in IT infrastructure, promising new levels of efficiency, flexibility and cost savings—particularly in the area of outsourced hosting, also known as infrastructure-as-a- service (IaaS). But because cloud computing is at the early stages of what Gartner calls the “hype cycle,” there is widespread confusion about what the term actually means, not to mention questions about how this new technology can deliver practical business benefits. The fact is, cloud computing has real value right now. Cloud computing can function as an extension of a company’s existing infrastructure, with enterprise-class features like redundancy, high availability and disaster recovery (fail-over) provided at a substantially lower cost than on-premises approaches.
We manage the infrastructure so you can get on with business. A Private Cloud Solution from SecureNation is you owning your own private cloud infrastructure without the associated investment or operational challenges. It will maximize the value you generate from your IT spend and increase business agility. Most of our Private Cloud Solutions are delivered as what is known as ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ or IaaS. This means that we do the engineering, invest in the infrastructure, deploy it and maintain it such that our clients can get on with business quickly and effectively without any fuss. And as their business grows they know that there is capacity available to them on demand.
Ask five different people a question about, say, cloud security, and you’ll likely get five different points of view. That’s where the non-profit Cloud Security Alliance comes in. Formed in 2009, the group today has 20,000 members and is regularly cited as a leading voice in the move to bring security to cloud computing. As Jerry Archer, a CSA board member and CSO for Sallie Mae explains, the organization doesn’t aspire to be a standards body, but instead looks for ways to promote best practices around which users, IT auditors, cloud and security solutions providers can agree. One outcome is the CSA’s GRC stack, a suite of tools to help people assess and instrument clouds according to industry best practices, standards, and critical compliance requirements.
Organizations are moving toward an instant-on, multi-sourced world, with service provided through in-house private clouds as well as external public clouds anytime, anywhere.Cloud computing is the wave of the instant-on future. Today, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. This is one of the driving forces behind the recent rise in the use of cloud computing. You hear the term and know it is the hot topic in your industry, but questions linger in your head.
This allows you to pay for only the services you need.