Ellen Rubin

By John McEleney Today we’re extremely excited to announce that we are being acquired by Verizon and joining Terremark, its IT services subsidiary. This is major news for us, and we believe for the cloud industry as well. We’ve been working together with Terremark for almost two years and have built great relationships with Verizon and Terremark, based on our hands-on experience with the Terremark clouds. It’s clear that F1000 companies are looking for enterprise-class cloud services that cover a broad range of their needs – not only commodity clouds, but also higher levels of SLAs, enterprise procurement processes, professional services, security models and dedicated systems. And they want these to be provided by a trusted name in enterprise IT services like Verizon. The other critical aspects for enterprise cloud adoption are the ones we f... (more)

Top Five Questions Asked by CloudSwitch Customers

By Dave Armlin, Director of Customer Support New CloudSwitch customers and prospects are coming up to speed every week and there are a number of questions that show up frequently enough that I thought it would be helpful to cover them in a blog. When we work with customers, our goal is to make their experience getting started in the cloud fast and easy, and to make sure they feel comfortable with the ongoing simplicity and security of the CloudSwitch model. Here are their top five questions: 1. How do I move applications to the cloud? CloudSwitch literally makes moving an applicat... (more)

The Trouble with Legacy Apps

Last week, I was on a panel at the CompTIA Breakaway conference in DC, with Scott Crenshaw from RedHat and Ron Culler from Secure Designs. Scott made an interesting comment about the three types of applications out there: (1) new apps that are being architected from scratch for the cloud; (2) legacy apps that are being re-architected for the cloud; and (3) everything else. It was a useful framework for our discussion about cloud migration and security, but it also made me think a bit about the issue of legacy apps and why these remain so controversial for the cloud industry. If ... (more)

Is Encryption the Solution to Cloud Computing Security and Privacy?

By Guest Blogger Erik Heels, Partner at Clock Tower Law Group, experts in Patent Law Wikipedia defines "cloud computing" as "the logical computational resources (data, software) accessible via a computer network (through WAN or Internet etc.), rather than from a local computer.  Managing local computers is hard: there are security issues, computer lifecycle issues, accessibility issues.  Cloud computing, ideally, is easy: set it and forget it, access your data from anywhere, outsource your IT headaches to your service provider.  To end users, whether individuals or companies, "t... (more)

SharePoint in the Cloud

By Pavan Pant, Director of Product Management As customers continue their march to the cloud we have heard from a large number who want to use SharePoint Server in the cloud. Two major concerns that show up frequently are migration of existing custom deployments and data security. These organizations have spent years customizing their SharePoint deployments so they work just right in their environment, and moving to the cloud is a daunting proposition. Consider a scenario where a customer has deployed SharePoint and each department has its own intranet and individual sites for ... (more)