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Can customers introduce security risks to our cloud?
The crusade for cloud security isn't just on enterprises. Cloud providers must ensure customers don't introduce malware into their environments, says security Neils Johnson.
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How can we make our cloud data center greener?
An energy-efficient cloud data center offers more than bragging rights; it saves serious cash. Data center expert Marshall Bartoszek shows how cloud providers can go green.
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How does virtualization affect visibility in the cloud?
Virtualization is the backbone of most cloud services, but cloud virtualization expert Eugene Alfaro explains how it also poses visibility challenges for service providers.
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How operators can stand out in cloud services market
Cloud data center expert Marshall Bartoszek lays out the major opportunities for network operators looking to differentiate themselves in the competitive cloud services market.
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Operators' top cloud services go-to-market strategies
Cloud expert Marshall Bartoszek details the primary strategies and approaches that network operators are choosing to deploy as they go to market with cloud services.
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Building cloud services without server virtualization
Cloud virtualization expert Eugene Alfaro discusses the ties between cloud services and server virtualization, and whether creating the former requires investing in the latter.
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Which cloud service elements are most vulnerable?
Cloud security expert Neils Johnson discusses the myriad vulnerabilities of cloud computing services and how cloud providers can best protect the sensitive resources they host.
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How can cloud providers show their services are secure?
Cloud security expert Neils Johnson explains how cloud providers can demonstrate to prospective enterprise clients that the cloud computing services they offer are secure.
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How do traditional and cloud data centers differ?
Cloud data center expert Marshall Bartoszek briefly explains what makes cloud data centers different from traditional data centers and identifies some key architectural elements.
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What are today's key data center trends?
Cloud data center expert Marshall Bartoszek details key trends in the data center space, such as the significant role virtualization plays in building and revamping data centers.
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Are Fortune 500 companies embracing the data center?
Is Google's commitment to investment in purpose-built data center infrastructure resonating with other Fortune 500 companies? Cloud data center expert Marshall Bartoszek weighs in.
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Cloud services challenges for providers, VARs and SIs
Expert panelist Lauren Robinette details challenges that service providers, value-added resellers and systems integrators face in moving to a business model led by cloud services.
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Cloud managed services issues for enterprises and SMBs
Channel and managed services expert Lauren Robinette breaks down the largest challenges that enterprises and SMBs face when crafting their cloud and managed services strategies.
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How many types of data centers are there?
How many types of data centers are there? Cloud data center expert Marshall Bartoszek parses some of the different flavors of data center that providers and enterprises employ.
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How do multi-tenant services and IaaS differ?
Telecom networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak details the similarities and differences between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and multi-tenant services.
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Do providers use MPLS to design cloud architecture?
Telecom networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak gives us a peek under the hood at what network technologies service providers use when designing cloud architecture.
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Mobile command trailers for telecom disaster recovery?
Should mobile command trailers be involved in telecom disaster recovery plans? Expert panelist Mike Jude details the pros and cons of building a mobile command trailer.
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With cloud compliance issues in flux, what can I do?
As long as regulators are vague about cloud compliance mandates, providers may fail to win customers in those verticals. But expert Neils Johnson s...
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What cloud security certifications are worth pursuing?
Cloud security is a critical issue for customers, but how useful are cloud security certifications? Security expert Neils Johnson explains how prov...
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Should we build our own cloud or resell someone else's?
Managed services expert Lauren Robinette explains when it makes sense for smaller or midsized managed service providers (MSPs) to build out their o...