How to Develop a Secure Cloud Strategy in Six Steps

How to Develop a Secure Cloud Strategy in Six Steps
By Vic Levinson

The first step is to start with the data. Data should be classified by risk and sensitivity levels according the business values. Obviously, high risk and highly sensitive data is at the core, less risky or non-sensitive data is at the periphery. Access is then determined in conjunction with this segregation and by regulation as well. Even though data may be deemed non-sensitive, there may be regulations in place to mean then it must have access to it controlled.

The second step is to address the organization's users. User's access should be determined by specific roles and also on a need to know basis. Beware of users with grandiose ideas of what their responsibilities are and of their own sense of importance. Sales may want access to finance records, but they may not really need it.

Thirdly, your cloud environment has to be the right fit for your enterprise- based on your data and your applications. Some line of business applications may not be applicable for the cloud based on their platform or specific functions within the business. At this point, your data determines if you are going to be on a public cloud, private cloud or hybrid. The IT department needs to build strategies that will take full advantage of the cloud that will meet the business objectives and be secure.

Determine your controls. With the proliferation of employee owned devices being used in business environments and consumer access to corporate information, IT has to contend with managing the various operating systems, devices, identities and applications. Take a data centric approach to identify and implement controls based on your data standards and cloud feasibility.

The fifth step is akin to adding the special sauce to a recipe. This is when you engage a cloud provider that has the expertise to bring it all together. This stage involves building a migration plan that is both flexible and secure.

As in all good recipes, the last step involves careful monitoring. Make sure that all of the controls are protecting the assets as they were intended to. Adjustments at this stage should be minor tweaks and not major policy changes.

Cloud technology is drastically changing how information is exchanged and stored. Businesses that quickly build and deploy these applications and take advantage of their benefits will reap the biggest rewards. To take the recipe analogy to its final stage, dig in and enjoy!

Prime Telecommunications has assisted thousands of businesses in the past twenty years dealing with technology and IT. Visit our website at http://www.primetelecommunications.com/data-solutions to see how we can help you put together the pieces of your IT puzzle. We specialize in cloud applications from disaster recovery to hosted voice applications.

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Clouds Gone Wild -- Funny Take On Cloud Management

Here is a funny take on the fears of cloud computing. In this video, you'll see Clouds "Gone Wild," flaunting their private data as they let down their cloud security.

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The Three Ways to Cloud Compute

This cloud computing video explains SaaS, PaaS and Iaas -- otherwise known as "software as a service", "platform as a service" and "infrastructure as a service". It is produced and presented by Christopher Barnatt, author of ExplainingComputers.com and "A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing" (Robinson, 2010), and Associate Professor of Computing & Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School. For more information on cloud computing please see ExplainingComputers.com/cloud

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3 Successful Steps To Cloud Computing

Most IT shops are thinking about "cloud computing", where business systems that run in-house are moved to data centers elsewhere - in a network or Internet 'cloud.' Stick Man explains the 3 key things that IT should do before moving to the cloud.

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The Future Of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is all the rage today. Although there are still many questions to be addressed...such as security...it appears that cloud technology is here to stay. It may evolve as most internet technologies do....but the future is promising.

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What Is Cloud Computing?

Watch this video to learn all you need to know about cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing Explained (By Kids)

Trying to define cloud computing? The folks at Accenture had a brilliant idea: Ask the current and future users of the cloud – kids – what they think cloud computing is. Accenture captured the answers in this video, which is nothing short of brilliant. Take a look and here's some background.

Call them millenials, digital natives, future customers – whatever moniker you want – the kids Accenture interviewed to get their thoughts on the cloud were spot-on in their explanations. Not only that, it was clear they understand the benefits of the technology and firmly believe the cloud will be the de facto way of storing and accessing data and applications moving forward, in both consumer and business settings.

“In cloud computing, information’s not stored on my computer, it’s stored in the cloud,” said one savvy preteen. “And this cloud can be accessed by any computer, anywhere in the world.”

“It takes the work off a computer so it’s not bombarded with all this work and stuff,” noted another. “For a company, if they have all these different people working on computers, they can all log into one database that has all the programs they need to do their jobs.”

These explanations of the cloud, distributed workload and 24/7 collaboration may seem simplistic, but they’re in fact about as exact as you can get without a master’s degree in computer science. The fact these kids – who, as the video pointed out, have never experienced a world without iTunes or Amazon.com – “get” the cloud speaks volumes to the ubiquity and longevity of a technology that, all told, is maybe three years old.

From TalkinCloud.com

And of course....there's always this version too. Kids say the darndest things ....

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New Cloud Networks = Everything Cloud

New Cloud Networks has quickly become one of our most popular suppliers and a favorite cloud provider. No surprise there...New Cloud Networks is one of the industry's leading suppliers of custom cloud services. Unlike most of our suppliers, New Cloud has an exclusive focus on cloud services, enabling them to customize and build cost-effective solutions.

New Cloud Resources:

Insider's Guide to Selling Cloud

NewCloud Launch

Cloud University Trainings

New Cloud Networks Advantages:

* Massive reductions in infrastructure costs

* Instant flexibility to scale IT resources

* Faster time-to-market for new applications

* Full server hardware redundancy

* Compatibility with existing application code

* Enterprise quality data center

* Scalability, security, redundancy, reliability, virtualization, rapid deployment

* Two redundant power feeds

* Redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply

* Diesel powered generator with separate fuel tank

* Fire Suppression

* Badged access for physical security

* Round the clock video surveillance

* Dual Fiber Based Bandwidth for Redundancy

* Expertise in both Voice and Data

* Best of breed components such as: Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, SuperMicro, and EMC 99.999% Guaranteed Uptime

* 24x7x365 technical server support

* Web-based, self-service ticketing

* Phone support with a professional technician or engineer

* Network-based security protection

* Bandwidth monitoring and tracking

* Customer access to knowledge base

To learn more about what New Cloud Networks can do for your business simply request more information and a free quote HERE...

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New Cloud Networks - Everything Cloud

New Cloud Networks has quickly become one of the telecommunication industry's most popular suppliers and a favorite cloud supplier. In fact, New Cloud Networks is one of the industry's leading suppliers of custom cloud services. Unlike most Telecom suppliers, New Cloud has an exclusive focus on cloud services, enabling them to customize and build cost-effective solutions.

New Cloud Resources:

* Insider's Guide to Selling Cloud
* NewCloud Launch
* Cloud University Trainings

New Cloud Networks Advantages:

* reductions in infrastructure costs
* Instant flexibility to scale IT resources
* Faster time-to-market for new applications
* Full server hardware redundancy
* Compatibility with existing application code
* Enterprise quality data center
* Scalability, security, redundancy, reliability, virtualization, rapid deployment
* Two redundant power feeds
* Redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply
* Diesel powered generator with separate fuel tank
* Fire Suppression
* Badged access for physical security
* Round the clock video surveillance
* Dual Fiber Based Bandwidth for Redundancy
* Expertise in both Voice and Data
* Best of breed components such as: Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, SuperMicro, and EMC
* 99.999% Guaranteed Uptime
* 24x7x365 technical server support
* Web-based, self-service ticketing
* Phone support with a professional technician or engineer
* Network-based security protection
* Bandwidth monitoring and tracking
* Customer access to knowledge base

To engage New Cloud Networks for a cloud solution for your business .... simply request more information and a free quote HERE

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What Can Cloud Computing Do For Your Business?

Cloud computing is visualization of computing assets delivered on demand over the internet.

Cloud computing is ushering in a new way to run IT. As IT organizations investigate cloud capabilities, they are realizing that new sets of management requirements are needed to govern, manage and secure the evolving cloud-connected enterprise IT environment.

Cloud computing enables you to have on-demand access to a pool of dynamically configurable computing resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal effort or interaction, and which are allocated — or even paid for — based only on the amount used.

You are exploring different ways to set up, deliver and pay for this approach, depending upon you business needs. CA sees — and helps enable — many possibilities. These clouds of computer resources are often assumed to be external to your organization’s IT department, but they could also be set up within your company’s four walls (known as an “internal cloud”), or in a hybrid model that includes both internal and external compute resources. Cloud computing can utilize public cloud providers, or leverage only more restricted private clouds.

In whichever case, you will want different models of service, depending upon your needs for a given application or data center. These can vary from needing just basic servers or storage power delivered over the network (called “Infrastructure as a Service”), to needing application building blocks and tools (“Platform as a Service”), or even a complete application (“Software as a Service”).

Traditionally, we've always referred to the Internet as the virtual environment 'up there' somewhere above the physical ecosystem of hardware... Today, most services are offered to a global audience because the Cloud enables the distribution in a more time and cost efficient manner.

Also, because the Cloud will contain the functional parts of a 'software', you can access them from anywhere, regardless of your geographical location..

Google Apps is a great example of using the Cloud for SME organizations.

To learn more and find out if there's a cloud computing solution that fits your network requirements simply ask here (includes free help, quotes, and a comparison of available providers)...

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Cloud Computing Types

The deployment model for Cloud Computing can be categorized as follows:

Public cloud

Public cloud or external cloud describes cloud computing in the traditional mainstream sense, whereby resources are dynamically provisioned on a fine-grained, self-service basis over the Internet, via web applications/web services, from an off-site third-party provider who shares resources and bills on a fine-grained utility computing basis.

Community cloud

A community cloud may be established where several organizations have similar requirements and seek to share infrastructure so as to realize some of the benefits of cloud computing. With the costs spread over fewer users than a public cloud (but more than a single tenant) this option is more expensive but may offer a higher level of privacy, security and/or policy compliance. Examples of community cloud include Google's "Gov Cloud".

Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud environment consisting of multiple internal and/or external providers "will be typical for most enterprises". By integrating multiple cloud services users may be able to ease the transition to public cloud services while avoiding issues such as PCI compliance.

Another perspective on deploying a web application in the cloud is using Hybrid Web Hosting, where the hosting infrastructure is a mix between Cloud Hosting for the web server, and Managed dedicated server for the database server.

Private cloud

Private cloud and internal cloud are neologisms that some vendors have recently used to describe offerings that emulate cloud computing on private networks. These (typically virtualisation automation) products claim to "deliver some benefits of cloud computing without the pitfalls", capitalising on data security, corporate governance, and reliability concerns. They have been criticized on the basis that users "still have to buy, build, and manage them" and as such do not benefit from lower up-front capital costs and less hands-on management, essentially "[lacking] the economic model that makes cloud computing such an intriguing concept".

Now that you know the different types of cloud computing you can make an educated decision of which best fits your needs. For help finding a cloud computing solution for business purposes simply request a free quote here....

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What Does The Cloud Mean To You?

Cloud means scalable computing resources... You can think of it as a large computer that you can scale up and down based your needs. In traditional computing, if you are not using your computer, it idles doing nothing. In cloud computing, that wasted resource is put to good use and you only pay for what you use.

There are a few other "clouds" which have nothing to do with this definition. Personal Cloud is one in which basically your data in all your personal devices is aggregated and made available from any device.

Some uses cases are personal storage in the cloud, although that's hardly the only use. Web servers can take advantage of the cloud to become highly available and geographically sensitive. Clouds can be used to rent computing for a one time intensive computing event.

But the general idea is, pay only for what you use, and repurpose what you don't for other tasks.

The main problems with cloud involve bandwidth, industry and country regulations, and portability. Also most applications need to be "modernized" to fully take advantage of the cloud fabric. Just taking your SaaS solution and putting it in the cloud doesn't mean you are a cloud solution, contrary to what some may think.

An interesting resource if you want to learn more about what it takes to create a large scale cloud solution is the Netflix technical blog. They are one of the few customers that survived the Amazon outage since they undestood what they were doing while designing the solution.

Netflix Technical Blog

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The Bottom Line Of Moving To Hosted Services In The Cloud

The bottom line in all new or proposed service deployments - whether to a cloud service or not - are

a] the requirements specification and

b] the outcomes of the risk and impacts analyses.

Moving to hosted services in a/the cloud just because one can, or just because it's fashionable, or for any other reason than directly quantifiable need when measured against the potential risks and impacts of doing so is, quite simply, idiocy.

This is not to say that there are no benefits in such services, but too many businesses make such decisions for the wrong reasons and without adequate information about the alternatives or options and the constraints or limitations of each of those options informing their eventual decisions. This is very bad business practice and even worse IT practice.

Your IT expenditures are probably going to be reduced which is a good thing. Your overall perceived value might seem better. But beware of the new and very interesting single points of failure that are created.

More specifically if you outsource your IT, will your network links be able to cope with it?

What happens if your provider goes bankrupt, will you follow suit?

Can you get desktop support from a team that has never seen a windows client?

Can you get desktop support at all?

Does your server and work disappear if you power it off by accident? Can you get a local copy for your data easily ? Can someone else get a copy of your data?

If your accountant leaves do you still have access to your financial data ?

If your HR leaves , do you still ....

etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Before jumping in, review and test the waters.

Will it improve your business? Not really, IT does not improve business any more, it is people, processes, and culture that improve businesses. Swapping providers will at best give you fractional overall savings.

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The Biggest Challenge For Cloud Computing In 2012

Security always appears top of the list, coupled with what I interpret as confusion over how and what is needed to make best use of the cloud. So in short, for me, a lack of understanding remains the challenge. Whilst security is critical, I feel the need to provide some counter points.

Any computer connected to the Internet is at risk from hackers, whether it is in the cloud or in a private data centre. Would it be true to say that an SME, with necessarily limited resources, is able to better secure its data than say, Amazon? In addition, who says everything needs to be in the cloud? Adopting a cloud computing strategy isn’t an ‘all or nothing’ decision. Data can remain within a data centre or on premise, whilst applications that need to access such data can be based in the cloud. That’s the whole principle behind the different cloud types – private, public or hybrid.

I think that anyone considering a move to the cloud needs to carefully consider their motivations and objectives for doing so, and to question what data and workflows they and their customers will feel happy placing in the cloud. Most importantly, select a vendor that can accommodate your cloud migration strategy, now and in the future. The challenge in 2012 isn’t that of cloud computing, the challenge for cloud vendors or providers of Cloud 'services' is that they need to not only advocate the benefits of their particular offering, but also educate the market on the benefits of cloud, full stop.

Another major challenge will be Bandwidth. It's probably the case that the majority of SME/Bs have 'plenty' of local network bandwidth with which to conduct their in-house operations/business, however, it's also probably the case that they don't have the same bandwidth in their pipe(s) into the 'Cloud' and that could be an awkward bottleneck if you swallowed the cloud philosophy without adequate preparation - which, of course, you'd never do.

For the pessimists amongst you, despite Moore’s Law and Nielson’s Law, there’s always Parkinson’s Law, which prevails: “Usage expands so as to fill all available bandwidth.”

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Who Is New Cloud Networks?

New Cloud Networks, an exclusive Telarus supplier, focuses on custom Cloud solutions for small to medium sized businesses. New Cloud Networks core area of expertise is remote storage, disaster recovery, virtual servers, email hosting, managed services, and virtual desktops.

What You Should Know About New Cloud Networks

New Cloud Networks is one of the industry's leading suppliers of custom cloud services. New Cloud has an exclusive focus on cloud services, enabling them to customize and build cost-effective solutions.

The big differentiator between New Cloud and the other telecom companies who offer cloud services is the support. Hands down the most personal, top notch, and caring ... dedicated to giving you the perfect customized solution, every time.

New Cloud Networks is powered by the latest Intel processor technology. Their Storage Area Networks are all SAS high speed drives, suitable for cloud computing and remote applications. The Dell R610 Servers are the latest in a long line of Dedicated and Virtual Servers. By using the latest technology, New Cloud can build a highly redundant, scalable environment. It allows them to design and build complex distributed hosting infrastructures that would once have taken weeks, in just a matter of hours. Environments with multiple load balanced web servers, replicated database servers, firewalls and more, can all be tested, monitored and perfected at a fraction of the cost of doing so with physical hardware.

New Cloud Networks Advantages....

* Massive reductions in infrastructure costs
* Instant flexibility to scale IT resources
* Faster time-to-market for new applications
* Full server hardware redundancy
* Compatibility with existing application code
* Enterprise quality data center
* Scalability, security, redundancy, reliability, virtualization, rapid deployment, high availability
* Two redundant power feeds
* Redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply
* Diesel powered generator with separate fuel tank
* Fire Suppression
* Badged access for physical security
* Round the clock video surveillance
* Dual Fiber Based Bandwidth for Redundancy
* Expertise in both Voice and Data
* Best of breed components such as: Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, SuperMicro, Panduit, and EMC
* 99.999% Guaranteed Uptime
* 24x7x365 technical server support
* Web-based, self-service ticketing
* Phone support with a professional technician or engineer
* Network-based security protection
* Bandwidth monitoring and tracking
* Customer access to knowledge base

New Cloud Products....

* Remote Storage
* Cloud Computing
* Dedicated Servers
* Email Hosting
* Managed Services
* Virtual Desktop

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The Reality Of Cloud Based Services

The cloud is a resource consisting of an array of server farms run commercially to be the superhighways and mass storage environments on the web in lieu of local control of such domains.

As a result of the tremendous capacity built into the communications industry during the dot com boom, organizations like Google, Amazon and others are offering these pathways and domains with tremendous economies of scale world wide for the advertising revenue.

Corporations like IBM are capitalizing on the developments by moving from a products to a services market to building tremendous associated revenues by offering entire countries like China, for instance a complete huge server farm and their own capability in the cloud.

This type of development is occurring as we speak all over the globe. Governments like the US are evolving their own version of private clouds for classified domains.

The net effect of all of this is that all the fascination we see presently about terminal hardware applications will be over in the near future. The "Cloud" and SAS will rock the hardware and software world and make access to technology easier for vast populations. Devices to do so will cost pennies on the current dollar or the will be free.

Like the PC makers, the sun is already setting on cell phone devices, associated applications, OTS packaged software and related products. Even though these products are enjoying current popularity They are expensive and will be rapidly overtaken by tight economics and services competition.

Smart,strategic planners are pointing to the future and it is not a hardware and licensed software market - it is service oriented with low cost access and rates. Volume, free products, advertising and shareware will drive it all.

Possible exceptions for a bit longer period of time are the high-end hardware and software technologies in government contracting, which for security reasons must be cloistered, protected and safeguarded. Your friendly government agency will be the last to boot its PC out the window.

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The Impact Of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has injected new life into the telecommunications industry. It has made it quicker, easier and more cost-effective to develop and produce an application. It is also making a greater number of applications, which were once only available to enterprises, also available to SMBs.

It is certainly a disruptive technology, especially when you also consider the growing popularity of social media communication. There are already a myriad of ways to connect/communicate. Some of them could be considered to be fundamentally different to using ‘POTS’. On-line self-service via the Web, for example, has rendered a lot of tedious contact centre activities (e.g., calling by phone) redundant, which has been a good thing. I’d say that’s a fundamental change? The whole gamut of social media activity, from texting to gaming and from Facebook to Twitter, has altered everyone’s perspective.

But if you’re talking about talking – to someone else – then I think we’ll still be doing that for some time to come (until man evolves to be telepathic). How we do it – physically – is another matter and, already, we’re doing it differently; it’s just that a lot of folks don’t even realise it. Broadband (or more exactly, bandwidth) is the key enabler and signposts the road to disruption (via perdition). Ubiquitous broadband should mean we can communicate any way we can, from anywhere we happen to be, but part of that will still involve talking to another human being. Some of those methods will involve ‘voice’ as an application as we will still wish to talk to customers, colleagues and contacts. Many telecommunications (using the word in its absolute broadest sense) applications will be delivered via cloud-based platforms (such as Aculab Cloud) and broadband access is key to such a paradigm becoming real – and disruptive.

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Has Cloud Computing Changed The Telecommunications Landscape?

"Cloud Computing" hasn't changed the Telecommunications landscape at all in my opinion.

For starters, the Cloud is only as good as the services feeding into it, and in order to benefit greatly from the "Cloud" you need fast internet service that feeds through a lot of data, this covers both wire-line and wireless alike.

When networks start to become faster, more accessible to the average person/business, and reliability can be assured by the services feeding into it, then we will see a major shift in "Cloud" based services.

So in order for the landscape to change the following needs to be addressed:

1. Cost of entry to the "Cloud" itself.

2. Cost of entry to the services to support such demanding setup .... e.g. Fiber, 4G, and larger volumes of accessible data.

3. Perception of service, meaning that not many currently see the value added in it. The Telco's have not promoted it well, again pointing to how it hasn't changed the landscape in anyway. Its still the same old Telco mentality, "throw it out there and lets see who bites."

I personally believe we are still quite a ways yet from the landscape changing. Networks need to support such a move and businesses need confidence in the service. Without that it will be a slow crawl to change.

A lot of adoption has been for specific services that can "go cloud" - but not much of that changed recently.

Note that many companies looking at the cloud already started with some centralized data centres, and moving your IT to someone elses DC or servers somewhere out in the Internet is not a huge change in how you operate the WAN to get to services.

The flip side to putting aspects of services in the cloud is the current heat and light about taking that to its logical conclusion and putting everything in the cloud - that seems much more of a stretch for many companies with complex IT.

What it will do is drive more demand for bandwidth, and more demand for WAN / Internet access reliability - after the cloud becomes the new IT black hole if you lose access.

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District of Columbia Data Center Discussion Panel Event

The Data Center Marketplace and ByteGrid Data Centers          Invite You to Attend District of Columbia Data Center Discussion Panel Event & Reception March 22, 2012 at The Concourse Auditorium Continuing a Series of Excellent Discussions for the Data Center Industry  The New York Data Center Discussion Panel Event 09/29/2011, Part 1 of 4 Where: The Concourse Conference Center/Auditorium 1593 Spring Hill Rd Vienna, VA 22182 Driving Directions When: Thursday March 22, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT Add to my calendar Get more information Register Now! ~ Also ~ Please join us for your pre-event Happy Hour* at Wednesday, March 21, 2012  5pm to 7pm 1861 International Drive  Mclean, VA 22102 (703) 448-3900  Network and mingle with sponsors and attendees or Register Here * a "no-host", cash-bar event. Dear Reader, Please accept this invitation to attend our complimentary Data Center Discussion Panel Event Thursday March 22, 2012 from 12:00pm - 5:30pm, at The Concourse Conference Center in Vienna, VA.    A catered reception will follow the main event including wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres. Inviting Economic Development, Scientists, and Technology Professionals for this event, and in preparation for our Data Center Summit - East, September 19th & 20th, at Research Triangle Park Conference Center, in Research Triangle Park, NC. The theme for the Summit is focused on providing a learning experience for providers and consumers of federal, state and/or local data center industry investment incentives, credits to operators of data centers (carbon, etc.), green/eco-friendly technology, laws, accounting and tax treatment, trends and strategies, sustainability, etc..  Find event details below announcement for our pre-event Happy Hour networking mixer at The Capital Grille; located in Mclean, VA.     Click on the link below to register or RSVP. Get more information Register Now! You are cordially invited to attend this free half day of presentations and panel discussion exclusively for IT professionals that are considering colocation, hosting, cloud computing, and network and telecom solutions. This event includes catered food and beverages. Join us bit early to enjoy our caterer's craft for lunch as well as during the mid-event break. At this event, a number of lively and relevant presentations by industry leaders will be presented. Discussions will revolve around trends, issues, alternatives, and challenges Executives are facing today and the solutions that are met through data center, cloud and network options. There will be plenty of networking opportunities with other regional IT leaders seeking to navigate data center and cloud solutions for their business. This dynamic event will showcase technology industry leaders; including: Brady Lambert (CEO, The Data Center Marketplace), Mark Macauley (Co-founder and SVP Sales and Marketing, ByteGrid), Axel Kretschmer (Regional Director, Schneider), Derek Schwartz (Executive Director and Founder, Green Data Center Alliance), Patrick Costello (Renewable Energy Market Expert, ICF International), Jim Kerrigan (EVP and Director, of Grubb and Ellis's Data Center Practice), Ron Vokoun DBIA, LEED AP BD+C (Construction Executive, Mortenson Construction and active in the AFCOM), and more will be speaking about IT issues and state of the art solutions. Don Mitchell, Schneider, responding to question from attendee. Who will be attending, and who will you expect to meet at this event? Data Center Marketplace event attendees are decision makers from Enterprise, Non-profit and Government; including: Chief Information & Technology Office Chief Executive & Financial Officers Datacenter Facilities Managers & Engineers Information Technology & Infrastructure Managers Network, Cabling & Communication Engineers & Integrators Architects, Design Build Consultants, and MEP Professionals Datacenter, Commercial Office Space & Operations Staff NOC, SOC and DOC Staff & Managers Server, Storage & Application Administrators Information Security & Risk Management Executives As an attendee, you'll get real-life answers from industry knowledge leaders about how to make the cloud and data center solutions work for you and your organization. Don't miss this opportunity to learn, query, network and mingle with industry professionals! Get more information Register Now! Please feel free to reply above or contact Brady Lambert with any questions about the event or how to become a show sponsor. We look forward to seeing you at the event! RSVP requested. Sincerely, Brady Lambert, CEO The Data Center Marketplace brady.lambert@datacentermarketplace.com (713) 494-2574 Skype: brady..lambert Voxer PTT (Android and iPhone): 7134942574 Cloud Marketplace: cloud.datacentermarketplace.com Twitter: @datacentermktpl, @cloudmarketplac, @datacentersumit, @datacenterevent, @techvangelistas Sponsors

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Cloud Solution Providers Matrix

With more than 35 carriers in our stable, it's hard to keep track of who does what, which is why we have created a cloud product matrix below. Expect to see this grow as more and more carriers build/purchase new cloud solutions.

* AireSpring ....

SasS - Hosted PBX

* Broadview Networks ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Security, Antivirus, Firewall, Hosted Exchange, MS Office, SharePoint

IaaS - Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

* Century Link ....

SasS - Security, Antivirus, CRM, e-Learning, Healthcare, Firewall, Antivirus, HR, Web Conferencing

IaaS - Storage, Virtual Private Data Center, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Symphony Database (Oracle or MS SQL), Private/Public Cloud, Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

* Comcast Business Class ....

SasS - Hosted Exchange, SharePoint

* Earthlink Business ....

IasS - Security, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Private/Public Cloud (Windows and Linux OS), Backup & Recovery

* Integra Telecom ....

SasS - Firewall, Hosted PBX, Managed PBX

* Megapath ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Security, Antivirus, Firewall

* Paetec ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Hosted Exchange

IaaS - Storage, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery (SAN), Enterprise Cloud Security

* Smoothsone IP Communications ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Unified Communications (Cloud)

* TelePacific Communications ....

SasS - Security, Firewall

IaaS - Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Backup & Recovery

* Telx ....

IasS - Cloud Connection Centers

* Time Warner Cable Business Class ....

Note: TWCBC Cloud solutions will be available soon via their latest acquisition of Navisite

SasS - Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Hyperion, Microsoft Dynamics, Hosted Exchange, SharePoint, IBM Lotus Notes

IaaS - Storage, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Private/Public Cloud, Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

* Vocal IP Networx ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Spam Filtering, Content Filtering, Network Monitoring & Management

IaaS - Storage, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Private/Public Cloud, Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

* Windstream ....

SasS - Hosted PBX, Firewall

IaaS - Storage, Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Private/Public Cloud, Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

* XO ....

SasS - Security, Hosted PBX, Spam Filtering, Unified Communications (Cloud)

IaaS - Backup & Recovery, Enterprise Cloud Security

If you'd like to take advantage of any of the services from the providers above ... simply ask for a free quote here:

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