Product Cloud or Service Cloud? Know The Difference

In the world of on-premise computing, product companies are as distinct from services companies as land is from water. Yet in the cloud, it’s often hard to see the difference. Some people lump cloud companies together, as if they all do the same thing. But they don’t; in fact, not recognizing the difference can be an expensive mistake for customers, investors, and even the cloud companies themselves.

Top Five Legal Issues for The Cloud

Enterprises are moving their assets to the cloud to capture its many business benefits, including ease of deployment and reducing, if not eliminating, the need for IT infrastructure. However, cloud computing offers an array of pitfalls for the unwary. The unique legal risks and considerations presented by the cloud are especially important and often overlooked by nonlawyers. Here are the top five legal considerations on the way to the cloud.

What Cloud Computing Really Means

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.

Google Finds Fake Anti-Virus Programs on the Rise

There are thousands of versions of fake anti-virus software, but all work on the premise of falsely telling users their computer has been infected with malware. The programs then badger users to buy the software, which often looks legitimate but has no real functionality.

Gartner: 60 Percent of Virtual Servers Less Secure than Physical Machines

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. This state of affairs will remain true until 2012, but security should improve substantially after that point, Gartner said.

Gartner predicted that by 2015, only 30 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical machines they replaced.

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