Special Report: Follow These Practices to Avoid Risk in the Cloud

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? Read it online     Manage my subscriptions Special Report: Cloud Services August 18, 2011 IT Procurement Best Practices to Reduce Risk in Cloud Contracts IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual terms to reduce risk in cloud contracts, according to Gartner. Read more > Blogs Arthur Cole Infrastructure App Performance Key to Cloud Performance Rob Enderle Unfiltered Opinion The Agile Data Center: Ensuring Job Security in a Cloud World Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Business Processes Move to the Cloud "In the cloud, hardware is passe. And yet, without hardware, there is no cloud." Excerpt from Arthur Cole Infrastructure Application Acceleration in the Clouds While already an established market, WAN acceleration and application optimization technologies are taking center stage on enterprise IT investment checklists in 2011 and beyond. Five Best Practices for Cloud Security In reality, cloud computing is a more secure option than what most IT organizations have in place today. But like all things IT, it needs to be properly managed to be effective. The Hybrid IT Department: Making Peace with the Cloud IT organizations are accepting the fact that they have to be "hybrid IT" departments, with more involvement in cloud computing and SaaS implementations, according to Informatica's vice president for cloud marketing, Darren Cunningham. This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Contact Us     How to Advertise As an IT Business Edge member, you receive periodic updates regarding content, products and services we offer to our members. If you do not wish to receive e-mails like this one, click here to remove yourself from all IT Business Edge newsletter and promotional e-mail lists. You are currently listed in our member database as om_prakash_panwar2003.nouveau@blogger.com.