Cloud contracts ‘need more transparency’

Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service providers to manage risk and defend their risk position to auditors and regulators.

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Learning Zone for service providers on path to the Cloud

Flexiant offers service provider market a one-stop shop of cloud resources from various sources.

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Offshore providers without a Cloud strategy risk long-term future

While the increased use of industrialised services will reduce the volume of traditional and customised services, the impact on offshore providers will be counterbalanced by new revenue from investments in cloud-based services, said Gartner, Inc. However, service providers that are slow, unable or unwilling to invest in the shift to the cloud will risk hampering offshore services revenue growth.

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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V3.1.3 released

Latest version extends storage capabilities and enhanced dynamic workload placement to support a variety of cloud service providers’ different business requirements.

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Savvis launches Cloud Data Center services

Scalable, on-demand cloud service available in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Emerging markets set to bypass traditional IT for Cloud

Cloud revenues to increase by 382% to $10.4bn by 2017.

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IBM has announced the opening of its new cloud resiliency center in Research Triangle Park (RTP),...
Hortonworks has introduced Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) 3.1. The launch of HDF 3.1 enhances...
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Talend to power enhanced customer marketing and insight.
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