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Thursday 11 February 2010
70% of firms planning on extending their cloud or virtual hosting presence
By Fred Jones
IT decision makers are planning on extending their cloud presence, according to reports.
Interestingly, the fears that many executives had over adopting cloud services for their online backup and hosting needs are beginning to wane, with 62% of respondents who did not already use SaaS (software as a service) or virtualised hosting solutions having considered taking the plunge.
Analysts have argued that, as well due to increased media coverage of the business, time-management and green credentials of adopting virtualised hosting, that the reason behind the change of heart is that several of the IT big boys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) were embracing the cloud openly.
However, despite the security concerns and wishes for better integration with existing systems that many firms seemed to have, a report (http://www.mimecast.com/events-press/press-releases/article/view/70-percent-of-companies-using-cloud-based-services-plan-to-move-additional-applications-to-the-cloud/396/) from US email management service Mimecast found that, of the ones who did take the plunge, 70% were planning on extending their SaaS usage, moving additional data and information onto the cloud.
As the representatives from Mimecast put it: "This shows that respondents that have used cloud-based solutions have seen their business and operational value and want to expand that success to other application areas."
The top three sectors that the study found were embracing cloud computing were also interesting, as they were also among those most sceptical about the merits of hosted solutions.
The report found that 76% of firms in financial services were wary of SaaS due to security fears, but the industry was the second biggest adopter of the cloud, with 40% having moved data onto online backup services.
In addition, 68% of those financial firms who had already adopted hosted solutions were among those who were planning on migrating additional data to the service.
The legal sector represented the third biggest investment in SaaS, with 37% of companies utilising the technology.
However, while this represented a lower overall stake in moving data online, a whopping 81% of those legal firms who took up cloud solutions were increasing their budgets for it.
Interestingly, the biggest adoption rate for cloud computing solutions came from the IT sector, with 53% of techies jumping onto the hosted bandwagon and three quarters of those increasing their connections to SaaS.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security
IT decision makers are planning on extending their cloud presence, according to reports.
Interestingly, the fears that many executives had over adopting cloud services for their online backup and hosting needs are beginning to wane, with 62% of respondents who did not already use SaaS (software as a service) or virtualised hosting solutions having considered taking the plunge.
Analysts have argued that, as well due to increased media coverage of the business, time-management and green credentials of adopting virtualised hosting, that the reason behind the change of heart is that several of the IT big boys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) were embracing the cloud openly.
However, despite the security concerns and wishes for better integration with existing systems that many firms seemed to have, a report (http://www.mimecast.com/events-press/press-releases/article/view/70-percent-of-companies-using-cloud-based-services-plan-to-move-additional-applications-to-the-cloud/396/) from US email management service Mimecast found that, of the ones who did take the plunge, 70% were planning on extending their SaaS usage, moving additional data and information onto the cloud.
As the representatives from Mimecast put it: "This shows that respondents that have used cloud-based solutions have seen their business and operational value and want to expand that success to other application areas."
The top three sectors that the study found were embracing cloud computing were also interesting, as they were also among those most sceptical about the merits of hosted solutions.
The report found that 76% of firms in financial services were wary of SaaS due to security fears, but the industry was the second biggest adopter of the cloud, with 40% having moved data onto online backup services.
In addition, 68% of those financial firms who had already adopted hosted solutions were among those who were planning on migrating additional data to the service.
The legal sector represented the third biggest investment in SaaS, with 37% of companies utilising the technology.
However, while this represented a lower overall stake in moving data online, a whopping 81% of those legal firms who took up cloud solutions were increasing their budgets for it.
Interestingly, the biggest adoption rate for cloud computing solutions came from the IT sector, with 53% of techies jumping onto the hosted bandwagon and three quarters of those increasing their connections to SaaS.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security
Wednesday 3 February 2010
How clean is the UK? World's 'dirtiest' web-hosting countries revealed
Posted by Ramsey Dehani
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of hackers and criminals.
But now network security firm Sophos has put the matter to rest with its own list of the 'dirtiest' hosts.
Now the ones near the top are no real surprise. It is hardly a shock to discover that the US hosts the largest number of 'dangerous sites' (37.4% to be exact) considering the wealth of content hosted in the nation.
But interestingly enough, web-hosting in the UK was found to be among the cleanest and safest of the major economic powers, with barely 1.6% of malware sites hosted out of the UK.
Whether this is a testimony to the security of the UK's web-hosting practitioners is among the best (a nice thought and one that we at Bytehouse would of course love to perpetuate) is unclear.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented on his company's findings: "These hacked sites are particularly dangerous because of the large amount of traffic they may already receive, and because visitors may feel they can trust any unusual pop-ups they see.
"One of the growing methods through which hackers exploited legitimate websites during the last 12 month was the placing of malicious adverts (known as "malvertising"). Websites that fell victim to malvertising attacks, and thus passed infections on to their readers, included the New York Times and technology website Gizmodo."
In Europe, Turkey, Poland and Germany were all found to host more 'dangerous' sites than the UK.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security.
For more information visit are other blogs at http://blog.bytehouse.co.uk and http://ukvpshosting.bytehouse.co.uk.
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of hackers and criminals.
But now network security firm Sophos has put the matter to rest with its own list of the 'dirtiest' hosts.
Now the ones near the top are no real surprise. It is hardly a shock to discover that the US hosts the largest number of 'dangerous sites' (37.4% to be exact) considering the wealth of content hosted in the nation.
But interestingly enough, web-hosting in the UK was found to be among the cleanest and safest of the major economic powers, with barely 1.6% of malware sites hosted out of the UK.
Whether this is a testimony to the security of the UK's web-hosting practitioners is among the best (a nice thought and one that we at Bytehouse would of course love to perpetuate) is unclear.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented on his company's findings: "These hacked sites are particularly dangerous because of the large amount of traffic they may already receive, and because visitors may feel they can trust any unusual pop-ups they see.
"One of the growing methods through which hackers exploited legitimate websites during the last 12 month was the placing of malicious adverts (known as "malvertising"). Websites that fell victim to malvertising attacks, and thus passed infections on to their readers, included the New York Times and technology website Gizmodo."
In Europe, Turkey, Poland and Germany were all found to host more 'dangerous' sites than the UK.
Host in the most secure data centre in the UK with ByteHouse's high standard physical and network security.
For more information visit are other blogs at http://blog.bytehouse.co.uk and http://ukvpshosting.bytehouse.co.uk.
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