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Sandstorm Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Bring Personal Cloud Platform to the Masses

As more applications move to the cloud, developers and users give up control in favor of simplicity. Sandstorm, an open source personal cloud platform, doesn’t believe it has to be this way. Continue reading

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Canopy Launches Enterprise PaaS Offering Based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Canopy, the cloud services line of Atos, has introduced Canopy Cloud Fabric, a managed Platform-as-a-Service based on the Pivotal CF distribution of the Cloud Foundry open-source PaaS. Continue reading

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Dropbox Vulnerability Allows Unauthorized Access of User Files

A Dropbox vulnerability which allowed unauthorized access of stored files has been addressed by the cloud storage company. Dropbox also acknowledged a second issue which has led to the exposure of user documents. The latter issue is not a vulnerability according to Dropbox, but rather a user error. Continue reading

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Enterprises Improve SLAs with Disaster Recovery in the Public Cloud: Forrester

Ninety-four percent of enterprises that do disaster recovery to the public cloud agree that their SLAs have improved in doing so, a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester finds. SLA attainment is just one of the benefits reported when turning to the cloud for backup and DR. Continue reading

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New Ponemon Institute Report Explores Cloud Encryption Trends

Over half of all organizations store sensitive data in the cloud, and another 36 percent plan to do so, according to the third annual Trends in Cloud Encryption Study, which was released on Tuesday. The study, produced by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Thales e-Security, further says that of those who store sensitive data in the cloud, only half use encryption. Continue reading

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