Cloud computing

11 TRUSTING THIRD PARTIES WITH YOUR DATA

As the cloud movement continues to advance, many foresee a shift away from managing IT in-house toward a model where more third-party organisations oversee servers, storage, applications and operational management. This shift will drastically change the fundamental practice of IT operations as we know it. Greg McCulloch, UK Managing Director Interxion, discusses how organisations can learn to trust third parties with their data in the cloud.

By transitioning into the cloud, organisations can remove administrative burdens on IT departments, avoid expensive hardware and upgrade costs, and adjust their software licensing and maintenance practices. Third-party co-location data centres are increasingly ...