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Businesses, protect yourself on cloud

70% of the world's enterprises are clients, the preferred investment area for large organizations, exponential growth... In 2019, the success of cloud is no longer in question. Is this popularity flourishing without risk? Not so sure. Last January, the company Dimensional Research released a vast study mixing risk management and cloud . The results show that public clouds are too weak when it comes to security. The risks are therefore not insignificant. Let's take a look at the problems raised by this solution and decipher the study. Profile of the American participant The IT manager works in a company with between 1000 and 5000 employees. Most of them work in a public cloud environment. A total of 337 international professionals took part in the question and answer session proposed by Dimensional Research. The cloud public is risky The problems created by the cloud public are placed in a chain. Since each key to the process is flawed, the outcome is tainted. Phase 1, service selection, can be dangerous. 85% of enterprises run in non-compliant public clouds. However, there is no need to worry too much, as the majority of them are using networks that are 75% or more compliant. Phase 2, the risks [...]

Moves in cloud : Microsoft Azure forms new partnership with VMware

At the end of February 2019, The Information published a groundbreaking news: the cloud Microsoft Azure solution is joining forces with virtualization specialist VMware. With an estimated revenue of $11 billion in 2018, Microsoft Azure is well below its competitor Amazon Web Service (AWS) with its $25.65 billion. Could this new alliance be a response to the competition, which already uses VMware's solution? What is the interest for VMware in this partnership? A look back at a somewhat surprising collaboration... The success of the multicloud The partnership between Microsoft and VMware is not happening now without reason. This collaboration responds to a new trend among CIOs who now store their data on different types of cloud and no longer on a single cloud . This is called multicloud. RightScale's study on cloud in the enterprise shows that 84% of companies with more than 1,000 employees have a multi-cloud strategy. Of these, 56% use hybrid clouds, 17% use public clouds and 9% use private clouds. The cloud lexicon 1. Public cloud : is a cloud created by a service provider and accessible to any subscribing enterprise. Although many organizations use public clouds, the [...]