From cloud ransomware attacks to service outages, it’s becoming clear that SaaS application data is not as immune to data loss as some users may believe. According to a Straits Times article, Google suffered a seven-hour global outage on Thursday (Aug 20) that affected many of its services, including e-mail, storage, document and videoconferencing. The disruption hit users at a time when they needed the tools most to stay productive amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Many users incl

I get asked this million-dollar question a lot: Physical or Cloud Firewall? Well, I must say that that’s a great question, and it makes a lot of sense really. For many Enterprises & SMEs, the obvious question is why would you continue to spend buckets of time and money maintaining expensive on-premise firewalls when you can simplify and strengthen your security posture with the cloud? In fact, getting rid of on-premise firewalls and saving money on infrastructure is perceived

Because Cloud simplifies your life. The Cloud believes in making things easy for you. It intelligently stores and protects your data, putting vital information at your finger tips and does so much more. Many corporations cannot live without it. Gone are the days of inefficiency and inconvenience. You could now enjoy access to your data across multiple platforms. So why the cloud? Here are our top 5 benefits of Cloud Computing. #1 Heightened efficiency No more sending files ba

The August 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service, put AWS in a different league to Microsoft’s Azure, and anyone else for that matter. If you’re an existing Microsoft partner, it makes for rather nervous reading. Microsoft are pushing hard for their partners to take a cloud-first approach. On one hand they are squeezing their incentives to partners for conventional System Integrator (SI) work such as selling servers and traditional licences to customers

Cloud Computing enables a business to dream, to experiment, to take on the world. But how many of us really understand the potential? The 19th century industrialists, when offered electricity as a service for the first time, could only see how their lathes could be made to run more reliably, cheaply and safely -­‐ they would not have been able to begin to see the possibilities utility power would bring them. Even basics like lighting to run extra shifts would have eluded them

Before you entrust your sensitive data to a “cloud” service provider, make sure you weigh the risks with the benefits. “Cloud Computing”, largely synonymous with Internet-based computing, has become a hot topic of discussion among many in the business community, with its promise of radically simplifying the access to, and use of, computing resources on demand. It’s no wonder then that it’s been small businesses, often without full-time IT resources of their own, that have bee

Cloud Computing is fairly new, which only means that there are still a lot of good things about it to be discovered and developed. Let’s take a look at some promising trends in the industry that are poised to make cloud computing even better than it is right now. Anyone who tells you that the cloud has reached a peak is definitely mistaken. While cloud computing is already a powerful IT service that has made a positive difference in the way businesses operate—especially small