For the better part of 2012, cloud service providers had to combat the misconception that their digital underpinnings were somehow inherently less secure than on-premise offerings. A healthy dose of reason has been brought to these debates in recent months, however, and companies are starting to see...

The simultaneous rise of consumerized IT, mobile devices and cloud computing has ensured that sensitive corporate information is now reaching more people and more endpoints than ever before. As much as they would like to, risk management professionals cannot turn back the clock on this increasingly ...

Cloud service providers faced an uphill battle in 2012 when trying to recruit business from firms with especially sensitive and/or highly-regulated workloads. But now that companies have recognized the viability of traditional data security solutions and hosts have emerged with more refined risk man...

Cloud and virtualization technologies will move data storage away from physical infrastructure, leading to the rise of "invisible" IT in 2013, according to a recent Data Center Knowledge column by industry expert Scott Crenshaw. The year ahead will also be the one in which big data becomes a reality...

Cloud technology has matured in recent years, as rising adoption rates have led to new success stories. Despite mounting confidence in the technology, however, standards have yet to be established with regard to data protection in the cloud. As Washington Technology writer Julie Anderson recently no...