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The Cloud Dilemma - Is Your Cloud Provider Secure?

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In 2010, cloud adoption among US small medium businesses (SMBs) was just 5 percent—today, 37 percent are on the cloud, and the percentage will double by 2020, according to Forbes. In the EU, 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) used public cloud computing in 2014, a survey by the European Commission’s Eurostat statistics service says.

No More Crossed Fingers: Five Questions Ensure the Optimal Data Protection Approach

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There’s often a direct and inverse correlation between the complexity of a company’s computing environment and the effectiveness of its data protection strategies. The result frequently means businesses blindly trust their current data protection solutions to recover all their data in case of disaster. Or put more plainly, they cross their fingers and hope for the best.

Six Tendencies Taking Shape in Enterprise Security this Year

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Two years ago, the world rushed to say the antivirus industry is dead. I disagree simply because antivirus companies do not exist anymore. I haven’t seen a security company that limits its portfolio to one, traditional security (antivirus) solution. Those who’ve tried are dead and gone, but most of them have morphed into cybersecurity companies.

Shifting into the fast lane with hybrid cloud

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Cloud is now ubiquitous, with three-quarters of organizations adopting cloud capabilities for speed and scalability. However, the popularity and benefits of cloud don’t mean that enterprises are discarding their traditional IT systems. Evidence is mounting that the future of IT will be hybrid. IDC predicts that over 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud architectures by 2017.

3 Actions You Can Take to Positively Impact Your Customers’ IT Organizations

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Critical business processes require multiple copies of each database’s and application’s data for development, analytics, operations, and data protection. To improve organizational agility and competitiveness, more is better—more copies, more frequently, with more operational self-service across the process cycles.

The Showdown between Convenience and Security

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Every organization has faced the dilemma of convenience over security and most have compromised on either one or the other. While the information security triad of integrity, confidentiality and availability has been regarded as the mantra of CSOs, convenience has constantly played an important role in both productivity and operations.

Ready for Takeoff: How to Design a Cloud Backup Service that Soars

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) presents a strong growth opportunity for Service Providers by helping with achieving your corporate objectives; increasing monthly recurring revenue, expanding the total addressable market and increasing wallet share with existing customers.

Five Questions for Stacie Rodriguez, One of CRN’s “People You Don’t Know but Should”

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CRN recently named Stacie Rodriguez, manager – channel marketing, EMC – to its list of “100 People You Don’t Know But Should.” The CRN editorial team, assessing feedback from solution providers and other industry executives, compiles this list to celebrate under-the-radar channel management from the industry's top vendors and distributors.

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