Cloud Security White Papers
Cloud Security white papers and security resources for implementing best practice security strategies.
Security Strategies to Virtualizing Internet-Facing Applications
Source: Intel
The IT organization at Intel has set a goal to transition their enterprise to a private cloud for their Office and Enterprise applications. The goal is to virtualize 75% of the environment by the end of 2012. This paper highlights the steps they are taking to overcome security challenges of virtualizing Internet-facing applications.
Source: Intel
Cloud security considerations span protecting hardware and platform technologies in the data center to enabling regulatory compliance and defending cloud access through different endpoints. This guide provides recommendations for strengthening data, identity, and platform protection and will also walk you through seven key steps to plan your cloud security strategy from the ground up.
Cloud Security Vendor Round Table
Source: Intel
This vendor round table guide will help you to evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Compare their answers to questions on data protection, compliance, ROI and more.
Planning Guide - Technology for Tomorrow's Cloud
Source: Intel
This cloud planning guide will introduce you to data center technologies that address challenges of networking, storage, security, and power management. It's based on Intel's experience working with IT managers, cloud providers, and security and power management vendors-as well as the experience Intel has gained building and deploying its own cloud technology.
Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning
Source: Intel
The survey results of 200 IT professionals highlights the key business and technology drivers behind implementation plans, the importance of security, and the level of investment in security required. This benchmark data can be used for your own cloud security planning.
Cloud Computing for Midsize Business: Delivering Innovation and Efficiency
Source: IBM
You may be considering a cloud computing solution or in the midst of specifying one or even implementing a solution. Read this paper to see what IBM discovered about how companies like yours are adopting, implementing and using cloud computing solutions. Learn about the current rate of adoption, as well as drivers, barriers, and considerations that are influencing the adoption of cloud computing.
Cloud Security: Who do you trust?
Source: IBM
Cloud computing changes the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. But significant security issues are presented with this new approach to computing. This white paper explains why trust, reliability and security decisions are central to choosing the right model.
Cloud Computing in the Midmarket: Assessing the Options
Source: IBM
You may be looking at cloud computing as a means to access IT resources that may not be affordable otherwise. Cloud solution options include public, private and hybrid models each of which offers its own benefits, cost model and risks. Read this analyst brief from IDC to learn about each of these models and discover how your organization can take advantage of them. The paper also looks at how organizations can integrate cloud solutions into existing infrastructures and how an incremental implementation approach might work. Finally the paper explains some principles for measuring the success of your cloud solutions.
Reduce Email Archives up to 60%
Are you considering implementing a proactive archiving and eDiscovery solutions? This paper summarizes 15 separate soft cost savings when implementing Symantec Enterprise Vault and the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform.
Aberdeen Report: To Patch, or Not to Patch? (Not If, But How)
The report explores the correlation between the current use of patch management and the level of endpoint-related risk that companies are effectively accepting.
