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Cloud Mobile Application Startups Plant Roots in Michigan

2013-02-04T09:33:16Z

Lock the stable door, the cloud is coming to the farm!

Rural wisdom has long proclaimed that successful farming has more to do with hard work, cooperation, frugality and common sense than science and technology. But a farm management software startup company called FarmLogs wants to modernize the industry by bringing critical farm data online. It replaces paper record keeping with software that is accessible via cloud computing on smartphones and web browsers.

An exciting venture, for sure.

But there’s another notable development in the story of FarmLogs, which recently received $1 million in seed funding to expand its mobile applications in time for the 2013 planting season: The tech company – which was incubated in Silicon Valley – has set its roots in Michigan.

Twenty-something co-founders Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch grew up in the rural Thumb area of mitten-shaped Michigan. They headed off to Silicon Valley to develop their vision after receiving seed funding from Y Combinator.

Their next move? Leave the world’s largest conglomeration of technology corporations and start-ups and return to Michigan. They’ve set up their growing shop in Online Tech’s hometown of Ann Arbor.

“We decided the right move for us was to move back to Michigan, right here in Ann Arbor,” Vollmar told Concentrate Media. “Ann Arbor has a better start-up culture and vibe that we thought would be better for attracting talent.” >>Read more

Source: OnlineTech

The cloud will shake markets

2013-02-04T08:42:44Z

Recently, I predicted that in 2013, cloud computing will provide the biggest disruption information technology has experienced in 25 years. These impacts extend to the $128 billion data center industry, which will never be the same as the traditional business model is disrupted, and new rules for success are written.

The data center market traditionally has been composed of five types of facilities, ranging from small to mega. This market has bifurcated into “Category One” – server rooms to enterprise facilities – and “Category Two” – large- to mega-sized facilities.

In Category One, hardware costs predominate. These facilities operate at an overall higher cost and provide customized services. In Category Two, software costs predominate. Focus is on a high-volume, low-margin business model. Due to the massive costs required to build and manage, the market for Category One is growing at a slower rate than that for Category Two. Category One also is undergoing unprecedented consolidation and virtualization. Category Two is evolving, in part, to the cloud services provider model, which offers highly secure, scalable and on-demand IT solutions. Fierce competition in Category Two is fueling a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario – those that realize the importance of the disruptive cloud computing model, and adapt, will emerge as winners. >>Read more

Source: SC Magazine

Hybrid Cloud Will End Virtualization Lock-in

2013-02-04T08:40:37Z

I’ll state the obvious: The last five years have seen incredible changes in IT, including the rise of new cloud operating models and the spread of virtualization into production data centers. A new generation of upstarts has captured the imagination of the IT industry by unleashing new software and service-centric solutions, including private and public clouds, new devices and operating systems, all leading to a larger and grander software-defined IT era.

Now the not so obvious: Software-defined IT is only a stepping stone to a much larger, service-defined IT era, enabled by the rise of hybrid cloud automation.

We are not there yet when it comes to hybrid cloud, despite the plethora of hybrid cloud announcements based on, of all things, virtualization lock-in. Why? The notion of migrating a virtual app and its critical services from a rack of x86 servers only to be stranded within yet another set of racks in a public cloud is not a hybrid cloud operating model. It is simply an early form of cloud migration.

Cloud migration will ultimately evolve into hybrid cloud integration within a true hybrid cloud operating environment. It isn’t the ability to move a virtual app once from one environment to another that is hybrid cloud, but rather the ability to move physical and virtual apps and services on demand, as needed between environments. Hybrid cloud is all about control for both the enterprise and the service provider.

Migrating VMs from cloud to cloud is a tactical payoff; integrating existing and virtual apps with clouds is a strategic game changer: control with agility.

First Gen Cloud Drawbacks

Virtually all of the cloud operating models in use today involve significant tradeoffs, often with control and security or unplanned downtime risks. >>Read more

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Temasys Labs is formed to step change Singapore’s capability in the field of business and social, visual and voice communications.

2013-01-31T09:54:16Z

Singapore, January 21, 2013. Today, Temasys Communications announced the formation of Temasys Laboratory of Communications (TEMASYS LABS), which will build an R&D capability in the field of Real Time Visual Communications with a strong emphasis on HTML5 and WebRTC. Temasys Labs development effort will be spear headed by Dr Alex Gouaillard, who after leading groups at Caltech and Harvard, had set up and led two research labs for the Singaporean Agency for Science, Technology And Research (A*STAR) before joining Temasys.

The technologies at play in the video conferencing and visual communications fields are rapidly changing. The emergence of HTML5 and more specifically WebRTC will revolutionize the way in which we communicate in our business and social lives. At the same time, most of the existing telecommunication and VoIP solution are migrating from hardware based in house solutions to hosted (cloud based) and software solutions. The world of communications is changing around us – and faster then you think!

By providing its current and future customers with the level of technical awareness, and solutions, that are required to achieve excellence in real time visual communication, Bill Lewis, Temasys’ Managing Director believes that the investment in Temasys Labs, and a reputation for technical excellence, will pay for itself by creating the ability to meet the most demanding customers needs, help customers transition into new technologies, and bring some exciting products and solutions to the business an social marketplace. And ensure that Singapore is a recognized Center of Excellence in the new technology.

Today, the critical mass of expertise in the new, emerging communication technologies, are located in the USA, with an emerging presence of Chinese companies (including China Unicom, Huawei, and Ten Cent) and Korean (Samsung and KAIST).

Bill Lewis believes that Temasys has a significant role to play in creating a core of the latest technical expertise in Singapore, and for a Singaporean business to take part of creating next generation Real Time Communication standards and solutions. In keeping with the Singapore Governments desire to create and encourage new technologies to be fostered in the City State, Temasys, by the creation of Temasys Labs, is taking the strategic decision to build a strong capability in the future technologies that are required for “next generation” communications. Through the world standards body W3C, Temasys will also take a role in defining the emerging web based communications standards, placing Singapore alongside the greats in the industry. Temasys Labs expertise includes a wide range of relevant technologies in the fields of Transport and Signaling Protocols, Security, Instant Messaging, Screen Sharing and Collaboration, Web Applications (HTML5) and Mobile Application on iOS and Andriod.
A “world first” browser-to-browser multiparty video conference solution was demonstrated in December, 2012 and Temasys is currently finalizing a new version that can connect it’s WebRTC Client to legacy video conferencing systems.

Contact
Bill Lewis
Managing Director
Temasys Communications Pte Ltd, Singapore
+65 983 953 71
bill.lewis@temasys.com.sg

Envisioning Cloud Brokering for a New Year

2013-01-29T06:16:26Z

As 2013 begins, it's a natural time to explore where cloud brokering is headed

Hopefully you watched Forrester's Stefan Ried present his webinar on cloud brokering and the many opportunities for different kinds of companies to exploit this technology. Part of Stefan's conversation included an explanation of the evolution to a unified cloud broker. If you missed it, you can catch up with it here. As 2013 begins, it's a natural time to explore where cloud brokering is headed. A cloud broker is the intersection of infrastructure, software and consultancy. Naturally, technology is a key enabler for a service provider adopting the broker role but it also impacts business models and consultancy. This diagram summarizes concept into the high-level architecture discussed above:

In the blue is a proposed "Unified Cloud Broker Platform." This shows how a cloud broker can take existing applications, SaaS and IaaS, and create customer value and a new cloud portfolio from them. This isn't necessarily a single product but shows the elements needed to offer the component parts that a cloud broker would need in their "stack" to offer compelling cloud offerings to ISVs, SMEs, enterprises and cloud ecosystem partners: >>Read more

Source: Cloud Computing Journal

Cloud Computing - Which Direction will the Cloud Move in 2013?

2013-01-29T06:13:06Z

At the end of 2012, Forrester Research’s James Staten summarized Forrester’s vision for how they see cloud computing affecting enterprises in 2013. The top ten trends for the enterprise cloud include:

- Understanding of the cloud will lead to better IT architectural decisions. IT finally has a firm grasp on the scenarios which benefit most by applying cloud technologies.
- Cloud technology will continue to be complemented by mobile. Glenn O’Donnell, Forrester analyst, says that cloud plus mobile is “more than the sum of its parts.”
- Non-critical apps in the cloud will mean that high SLAs become less important. James Staten, Forrester analyst, wrote that “What’s the value of having your sourcing and vendor management team negotiate a high and tight SLA from the cloud vendor when only 10% of the applications deployed there need that level of protection?” >>Read more

Source: Formtek Blog

The State of Cloud Computing Around the World - Canada

2013-01-29T06:05:28Z

Cloud Computing is taking off in various parts of the globe, partly because companies are now realizing the great potential of cloud computing technology when it comes to cost efficiency, productivity, agility, and operational flexibility. However, Canadian companies seem to be lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to the adoption of this newly matured technology.

Canada’s Slow Adoption of the Cloud
The chief reasons why Canadian companies are slow to adopt cloud technology despite its maturity is due to security and privacy concerns. Canada has extremely stringent data privacy laws, and many Canadian companies are still waiting for the provincial and federal governments to standardize and update the policies in order to accommodate the cloud. With the Canadian government’s lack of clear policies on data privacy and their effects on the cloud, companies will not be willing to risk possible legal troubles regarding cloud use.

Essentially, Canadian companies are concerned that the ownership of the information they keep in their own data centres could be called into question, as the existing privacy laws still have conflicts regarding which data belongs to whom based on the physical location of the server, as well as the location of the person accessing the files.

It’s also the main reason why many Canadian users choose to go with foreign providers, such as Microsoft and Amazon, as the two companies have the most stringent security mechanisms in place, and have deep enough pockets to fight drawn out court battles if they run into legal trouble.

Canada’s Privacy Laws
As mentioned above, many Canadian organizations are on the fence when it comes to adopting cloud technology due to fears that they could run into legal issues when transfer of data across borders happens. This is because under Canada’s current federal and provincial private sector privacy laws state that the organization that collects and uses personal information will be solely responsible for its maintenance and security throughout its lifecycle.

This puts many organizations in a risky position as they become automatically locked in a contractual obligation with individuals whose data pass through their servers. Organizations that want to operate in the cloud would have to meet with their legal advisors in order to assess if cloud service transfers of personal information will have an effect on their existing legal commitments, and if it is necessary for them to provide special notice to individuals concerned, as well as provide opt-out or termination opportunities to users. >>Read more

Source: CloudTimes

Temasys brings pathology and radiology to the desktop, tablet, and smartphone

2013-01-28T04:29:59Z

Temasys provides medical professionals with an internationally acclaimed, high value, low cost, cloud based video conferencing service that enhances interdisciplinary collaboration, accelerates the access to medical images (whatever the acquisition modality) and creates improved patient care. Always available, fully managed, encrypted, and secure so that you – the Clinician – can focus on diagnosis and treatment, without the need to think about technology.

The practice of medicine is inherently collaborative and in hospitals around the world actions are constantly being taken to achieve the goals of Integrating the Health Care Enterprise (IHE). The realm of medical diagnostics, the premise is simple: when primary physicians, pathologists, radiologists, and other medical professionals work together, they can treat patients more effectively. Telemedicine has promised to make collaboration more efficient, by using video-based communications to replace travel by medical providers and their patients, accelerating the transfer of information between experts, and calling on second opinion at a moments notice. The fundamental objective is to improve patient care and save lives.

In the critical areas of Pathology and Radiology rapid access to the results of tests, and the ability to quickly federate the results amongst professional clinicians, can make the difference between an effective intervention and one that is possibly less timely due to the process of receiving, reviewing and taking action on patient test data. Visual communication via Temasys’s Global HD Cloud Video Conferencing Service brings clinical information directly to the specialist wherever they may be. By displaying DICOM imagery over a fully encrypted communications infrastructure, to ensure patient and data confidentiality, clinicians can be confident of the efficacy of shared content and can have face to face, real time visual conversations with their colleagues and invited experts using any device – whether a simple desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, or even a smartphone.

Effective telemedicine technology, such as Temasys Global Cloud HD Video Conferencing Service, work anywhere, transmit high-quality images over normal Internet connections, provide real-time access to case data such as lab results and histological sections, allow several people to interact simultaneously, and is easy to operate. Temasys, provide a simple to use platform and provide turnkey solutions to bring a hospital or clinic on line and effective rapidly and economically.

Contact Bill Lewis, Managing Director, Temasys Communications, Singapore, for help in imporving processes in your hospital, clinic, labaoratory, or medical instituition.

Temasys Cloud HD Video Conferencing Service is powered by software from Vidyo Inc. (www.vidyo.com)

bill.lewis@temasys.com.sg
+65 983 953 71

Windows RT's Achilles' heel - Cloud connections

2013-01-21T07:26:02Z

If you work with multiple computers and devices, and especially if you collaborate with other writers, then the combination of SkyDrive and Office 2013 is fantastic. Got an email with an attached document or some notes you've started making? Save the file on SkyDrive (you can even do that from your phone in some cases); not only can you open it in Word on your PC and carry on working, but it will appear in the recent documents list on the File menu in Office 2013 so it's easy to find.

If you're working on a document with someone else, both of you can open it from SkyDrive and edit it at the same time. Yes, that's useful, because you're often adding different things to the document. You don't get the other person's changes until you both save the document, so you're not distracted by half-finished thoughts or false starts. And you can't change the paragraph someone else is already working in, so nothing gets overwritten. You can use Track Changes to see and revert changes, and if you work in Simple Markup view you won't feel like you're drowning in a sea of red-lined corrections and you can make changes without worrying about losing your favourite sentence. Don't worry about slips of the finger: SkyDrive has a recycle bin, so as long as you turn on the setting in Word to make a backup you can even go back and retrieve a paragraph the other person deleted without turning on Track Changes (or if they accepted their change before you got a chance to check it).>>Read more

Source: ZDNet

Cloud Brings out New Equations to the Ecosystem

2013-01-21T07:23:18Z

During the last decade, the enterprise war was among the handful of players. Microsoft wanted to be the de facto choice of the IT by pushing .NET application platform, integrated tools through Visual Studio, a set of servers in the form of SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk and System Center. Same was the case with IBM who was trying to compete through the Rational, WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli and MQ Series platforms. Sun and Oracle complemented each other and ran an integrated GTM to win the enterprise customers. The goal of every player was the same – Displace competition and own almost every aspect of enterprise IT including the directory services, messaging, databases, business intelligence, systems management, collaboration and enterprise integration.

In the era of Cloud, it is unrealistic to think of just one player providing end-to-end capabilities for the enterprises. Whether it is infrastructure services or platform services, there are a set of essential services that are expected by the enterprises. Most of the enterprise customer requirements go beyond the basic set of services like compute, storage, networking and databases. For example, a CDN service is essential to complement the storage, a NoSQL database to handle the scale out operations on the data tier and Hadoop for big data processing and analytics. Infrastructure service providers want to leverage the investments by exposing a PaaS layer. With the rapidly evolving landscape of Cloud driven by the customer needs, traditional platform companies like Microsoft, IBM and Oracle cannot match the pace. They cannot any more play the role of the big brother in the context of the Cloud. Amazon Web Services comes close to being the Cloud platform that offers a native set of building block services, application services, management services and deployment services. Cloud brought everyone to the same level playing field. Of course, an early mover like Microsoft has an advantage over IBM and Oracle but they still cannot enjoy the same dream run they had during the last decade.>>Read more

Source: Janakiramm

Cloud Adoption Statistics

2013-01-21T07:21:27Z

Cloud adoption decisions will be taken in the near future by employees who do not have an IT background. That’s an interesting shift in the IT world! According to a report issued by Capgemini, chief marketing officers, executive and even people from human resource departments, finance or administration departments will be making some of these cloud adoption decisions. 460 organizations globally, 50 of them in the UK were surveyed for this report.

The main reason for this change might be that cloud adoption and implementation into the overall strategy of an organization and in different departments influences the activity of all employees, not only of those from the IT department. Therefore, the decisions will be made by people with – different positions within a company and not necessarily by those having an IT background. SaaS based solutions for CRM, accounting and marketing solutions for example do not require hardware and software maintained by an IT department so they are able to be managed from within the individual departments.

Even though collaboration between the team members and departments inside an organization is the main purpose for business-and cloud apps, there are some critical points to consider before adopting the cloud and not including someone from the IT department.>>Read more

Source: Cloudtweaks

How 'bring your own cloud' could kill BYOD

2013-01-21T06:56:16Z

How many personal cloud services can you name? If you can name more than five without performing an Internet search, then you clearly see the problem. But it's not in the sheer number of personal cloud options that presents a problem, it's their availability that does. Personal cloud services provide their users with an excellent avenue for storing files off-device for greater protection, automatic backup, and constant availability. However, these services are as great a detriment as they are an asset for BYOD dabblers. This new, "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) presents its unique set of problems for companies that want to adopt BYOD programs.

From the corporate viewpoint, personal cloud services provide another way for users to compromise security by storing important documents and data outside the company's walls. And that also means that those files are outside the control of corporate security.

In short, it's a very bad thing.

Personal cloud services are great for users but they drive corporate security folks crazy. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as banning a particular port for some of these services. Many of the services are web based and cross-platform. Dropbox is perhaps the most famous such service that's available on every computing platform through apps and the web. It's almost impossible to stop someone from using Dropbox on corporate-owned devices or on personal ones.>>Read more

Source: ZDNet

What John Smith thinks of Cloud Computing - A Big ‘Ol Warehouse

2013-01-18T08:35:39Z

The cloud computing paradigm has advanced the field of computing by leaps and bounds and has allowed businesses of all kinds to adapt to an ever changing environment of business needs and consumer demands. Indeed the path to here has never been a paved road, no new way of thinking has ever really gone smoothly at first, but it is here now, fully embraced and making our world a better one be it behind the scenes and away from the attention of the masses.

Cloud computing was slow to start with many “nay sayers” and negatively minded people who in the guise of “practicality” where against it in the beginning. But it proved its worth by consistently delivering its promised benefits to those who were brave and smart enough to plan thoroughly and hop on the train. One of the biggest successes of cloud computing, partially because of the obviousness of its application and the proper advancement of networking and storage technologies, is the cloud storage solution. This provided us with a desktop-like environment for storing our files online. Before cloud storage, we could only upload and access files through an FTP server which was a pain to handle and was a technology literally inaccessible to the masses. Now with cloud storage, we have been able to solve a lot of fundamental problems of file transfers, be it for school or work, which was man’s capacity to forget to bring the storage device altogether. Cloud storage allowed us to put our files on the cloud so we can access them anytime and anywhere, as well as share them.>>Read more

Source: CloudTweaks

Integrating customer service and the cloud

2013-01-18T08:32:16Z

The cloud is commonly envisaged as a utilitarian service, enabling those companies using it, to experience ease of access to data in various accounts, homogenisation of such accounts, the external management of servers, negating the need for expensive hardware, and so on.

This utilitarian approach has, broadly speaking, meant that some cloud services lose a certain personal element with their clients.

The cloud has been associated with a lack of customer service, with some of the large providers simply erecting web pages and FAQs to tackle customer problems. It is often very difficult to phone up and talk to a human being.

For a fair few businesses, customer service is something which takes a back seat.>>Read more

Source: Cloudtech

Cloud Infographic - Big Data and the Future of Healthcare

2013-01-18T08:30:32Z

The healthcare industry has been making its move toward technology, putting iPads and tablets into the hands of healthcare professionals and now, the latest big move has been adopting the concept of cloud computing to organize, share data and protect patient information and healthcare data from being tampered with or lost. Some might be wondering why medical professionals have waited this long to “hop on the cloud.” Perhaps the healthcare industry wasn’t ready before but they are definitely ready now…Continue Reading

Infographic Source: InsuranceQuotes.org

IBM’s stack on big data management and governance

2013-01-18T08:24:25Z

The big data phenomenon presents a challenge for data management, a complex IT discipline that many organizations still struggle to deal with effectively today, even with their “small” data sets.

As data grows, so too does data uncertainty – and with it lowered quality and trust. IBM is in the process of extending its InfoSphere family of data integration and governance tooling, with a sharp focus on targeting the Hadoop framework.

However, technology is only part of the equation. While the end goal for managing and governing big data should be the same as that for traditional enterprise data – i.e. to provide the business with reliable data – the exact methods vary and continue to gel. IBM (and its customers) is still only a short way along the path of creating best practices for reconciling big data technology implementations with stewardship.>>Read more

Source: Cloudtech

Making Cloud Adoption in China a Reality (In spite of Data Privacy and State “Secret” Laws)

2013-01-17T11:40:18Z

Cloud computing has become a hot growth area in China, driven by both large-scale government initiatives and private investment. However, as alluring as the cloud is in China, for foreign firms trying to do business there, the uncertain legal environment can create a number of serious challenges.

Comprehensive, national regulations on data privacy remain in the draft stage, so for now, data privacy rules are “vague” and are often at the mercy of government interpretation. The legal framework for cloud services is flexible to the point of being unpredictable, especially since the Chinese government may claim national security as a rationale for almost any measure pertaining to data security and the internet/cloud. Sound intimidating? It can be, but “forewarned is forearmed,” so here are two key areas we all need to consider before jumping into the cloud in China.

Data Privacy Laws

No single national data privacy law exists in China, but working group recommendations are making their way through the national process. For example, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a draft Information Security Technology – Guide of Personal Information Protection. But, until any recommendations become national law (and to some degree thereafter), there are over 200 local/provincial laws and sector-based regulations for businesses to navigate.>>Read more

Source: Cloudtweaks

How cloud generates seismic waves across the economics of IT

2013-01-17T11:29:01Z

I feel like tectonic plates are shifting beneath the IT world. I’ve been struggling to put my finger on what it is that is making me feel this way, but slowly things have started to come into focus. These are my thoughts on how cloud computing has forever changed the economics of IT by shifting the balance of power.

The cloud has fundamentally changed business models; it has shifted time-to-market, entry points and who can do what. These byproducts of massive elasticity are wrapped up in an even greater evolutionary change that is occurring right now: The cloud is having a pronounced impact on the supply chain, which will amount to a tidal wave of changes in the near-term that will cause huge pain for some and spawn incredible innovation and wealth for others. As I see it, the cloud has started a chain of events that will change our industry forever:

1) Big IT used to rule the datacenter. Not long ago, large infrastructure companies were at the heart of IT. The EMCs, Dells, Ciscos, HPs and IBMs were responsible for designing, sourcing, supplying and configuring the hardware that was behind nearly all of the computing and storage power in the world. Every server closest was packed full of name-brand equipment and the datacenter was no different.

A quick tour of any datacenter would – and still will – showcase the wares of these behemoths of the IT world. These companies developed sophisticated supply and sales channels that produced great margins businesses built on some very good product. This included the OEMs and ODMs that produced bent metal to the VARs and distributors who then sold their finish products. Think of DeBeers, the diamond mine owner and distributor. What are the differences between a company like HP and DeBeers? Not very much, but the cloud began to change all that.>>Read more

Source: Cloudtech

Cloud Computing Virtualization - A Complete Overview of this Technology

2013-01-17T11:29:47Z

An Overview of the Topic:

Today due to the involvement of the cloud computing virtualization technology many companies and firms are gaining a lot form this technology. And obviously with this technology, it’s very easy to gain high-performance, flexibility and added resources for your business. Virtualization will with the help of shared servers provide data, software’s and other hardware resources to the system and the business. With this it completes every demand of the client at will. And as we know cloud servers are charged on the basis of pay per use basis. The concept of cloud technology itself works on the method of virtualization. And every user can use them without concerning about the maintenance and proper management of the server because those are the problems of the cloud provider. All you need to do is to pay for the resources that are used by your company.

Where you can avail these services?

It’s a quite common thing that any product, brand or service that gains importance and eventually become popular then a huge number of us can say service providers come forward to offer services at various schemes and to earn some profit in the process. Therefore, these services can be accessed from any company or region. However, it's very important to choose a genuine cloud computing company otherwise, you will be in great trouble and you’re your business will suffer huge losses.>>Read more

Source: Hostreview

How location is crucial to cloud data security

2013-01-17T11:29:38Z

Anyone who has ever dealt in real estate—either buying a house, renting, or just living with someone in the industry—has heard the mantra "location, location, location." As it turns out, location matters in the cloud, too. In particular, if you work for a regional or global company, you’ll find that certain governments, regional political entities (eg. the EU), and industries impose restrictions on where specific types of data can physically reside.

These jurisdictions apply regulations that protect individual and corporate data privacy pertaining to their citizens, public entities, or private sector firms. The most sensitive data of which, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), can be used to identify, locate, or contact specific individuals. Typically, the governance and compliance requirements that they specify require one or more of the following:

- PII and other data must remain physically resident within the jurisdiction.
- PII and other data must be protected from viewing or alteration while in transit at all times.
- PII and other data must similarly be protected while being stored (at rest), at all times.
- PII and other data must not be physically transmitted outside of the jurisdiction for any reason.

Given these restrictions, you might think that a cloud-based solution—which runs applications and stores corresponding data and documents centrally, reachable by virtually any user from anywhere around the globe—would be out of the question. The good news is, that's not the case!>>Read more

Source: Cloudtech