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Mar 19th, 8:38am
Using the Cloud for Business Continuity
"Affordable business continuity" ranks up there with "governmental efficiency" on the list of oxymorons. Or does it? Business continuity is being transformed by the cloud. The combination of multitenancy, affordable bandwidth, and secure access technologies is changing how companies architect disaster recovery. The elastic nature of cloud computing enables companies to replicate in-house infrastructure and applications in the cloud in a matter of hours. Moreover, cloud infrastructure providers like GoGrid feature variable pricing based on usage. By moving more of the cost from fixed to variable, standby configurations like business continuity have become much more...
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Mar 9th, 4:53pm
Security Trends - RSA 2010
ANX sent four delegates (including our CEO) to the RSA conference this year with learning in mind; learning more about what our competition is up to, learning more about potential business partners, and learning more about emerging trends in security. Here are some of my takeaways from the conference:
Attendance
According to Tom Heiser (of RSA) attendance was up 20% this year. After a disappointing 2009 this is refreshing news and hopefully the sign of a recovering economy.
Themes
Cloud Security: The Cloud Security Alliance put on a sold out show to kick off the conference on Monday. Unfortunately I did not arrive in San Francisco until Monday afternoon but I heard they had to turn many away due to...
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Attendance
According to Tom Heiser (of RSA) attendance was up 20% this year. After a disappointing 2009 this is refreshing news and hopefully the sign of a recovering economy.
Themes
Cloud Security: The Cloud Security Alliance put on a sold out show to kick off the conference on Monday. Unfortunately I did not arrive in San Francisco until Monday afternoon but I heard they had to turn many away due to...
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Mar 4th, 5:28pm
Manage your vendors' access and make them pay for it!
The case for outsourcing
Crisis is the mother of innovation. The history of mankind is full with new ideas that were born during or after a major crisis. On a national level, you can see countries like Germany and Japan, that despite bloody history and major national crisis, emerged to become economic super powers and created much technological advancement. On the other hand, countries like Switzerland, that was always neutral and peaceful, a are mainly famous for technological achievements like the cucko
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The last couple of years marked the biggest economic crisis the world had ever known; many companies went out of business while others are working very hard just...
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Crisis is the mother of innovation. The history of mankind is full with new ideas that were born during or after a major crisis. On a national level, you can see countries like Germany and Japan, that despite bloody history and major national crisis, emerged to become economic super powers and created much technological advancement. On the other hand, countries like Switzerland, that was always neutral and peaceful, a are mainly famous for technological achievements like the cucko
o clock…
The last couple of years marked the biggest economic crisis the world had ever known; many companies went out of business while others are working very hard just...
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Feb 24th, 11:30am
ANX Webinar on Feb 26 - Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Join us this Friday, February 26th at 2pm eastern for our latest webinar - Disaster Recovery in the Cloud.
ANX is partnering with GoGrid to deliver a flexible and cost effective disaster recovery program in the cloud. Learn how this solution can be quickly implemented giving you affordable peace of mind.
Click here to enroll in the webinar.
ANX is partnering with GoGrid to deliver a flexible and cost effective disaster recovery program in the cloud. Learn how this solution can be quickly implemented giving you affordable peace of mind.
Click here to enroll in the webinar.
Jan 18th, 4:51pm
If you give a CFO a Cloud
If you give a CFO a cloud,He’s going to ask for ROI analysis,
When you give him the ROI analysis,
He’ll probably ask you for an executive summary,
When he’s finished, he’ll ask for a meeting with the head of IT.
Then he’ll want to look in his calendar to make sure he doesn’t have another meeting.
When he looks into the calendar
He might notice a meeting with the CEO to discuss cost reductions.
So he’ll probably ask for a couple of short term cost reduction examples.
When he’s finished making himself familiar with those examples,
He’ll want a business unit to try it on first.
He’ll start thinking.
He might get carried away and think about every business unit in the company.
He may even end up...
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