"The order is designed to 'centralize risk' and encourage the government’s agencies to use shared IT services" President Donald Trump has finally signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity, and he called for the U.S. government to move more into the cloud and modernize its IT infrastructure. The order, signed on Thursday, is designed to "centralize risk" and move the government's agencies toward shared IT services, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said in … [Read more...]
We now can cover most of the globe with our newest International Solutions Providers
We have added to our portfolio of Best of Class International Providers: China Telecom, Expereo, TaTa Communications, Telia, Telstra - Along with AT&T, Global Capacity, GTT, Level 3, Masergy, NTT, Unitas Global, and Zayo! … [Read more...]
Amazon Cloud Outage – Need an alternative?
There were major disruptions on Tuesday for multiple hours when an outage of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure (S3 servers) caused multiple services to go down. Businesses that depended on the Amazon cloud computing service which is often used to store images and other media, suffered an outage across the East Coast region Tuesday morning, affecting services ranging from Amazon’s own media services to YouZign. If you visited a website application that depended on that service, you may have … [Read more...]
New Local Phone #
We have a new local phone number: 615-565-8833 Please make changes in your phone and social media contacts for In the Cloud Technology and Bill Quaglia. Thanks, Bill Quaglia … [Read more...]
Comcast National Fiber by 2016
Klint Finley Business 04.02.15 2:50 pm Comcast Says It’ll Bring Ultra-Fast Internet to US by 2016 Click to Open Overlay Gallery Getty Images Comcast says it will soon compete head-on with Google Fiber. In a blog post today, the company announced plans to offer internet speeds of up to 2 gigabits per second to the majority of its nearly 22 million subscribers by the end of the year. That’s about twice as fast as the ultra-high-speed service Google is now offering in three US cities, and … [Read more...]
Obama’s Brand of Cyber Security
Will Obama's Cyber Security Act protect us or open yet another avenue for government access to our privacy? What is between the lines in this bill? Your comments are encouraged. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/13/obama-cybersecurity-bill-privacy-campaigners-warning … [Read more...]
ANX eBusiness- Our newest addition to our Cloud Portfolio
ANNOUNCEMENT IN The Cloud Technology is pleased to announce the alliance and representation of our newest member to our Cloud Portfolio, ANX eBUSINESS. ANX is the trend-setter and leader in the Security Compliance industry (PCI-DSS, HIPAA-HITECH, Etc.) with proactive solutions that reduce the risk and financial impact on the merchant/health care provider before the breach occurs, as well as stellar remediation support. Please go to our CONTACT page for an overview … [Read more...]
Google GigaBite Fiber makes its entry into Nashville
Google completes their first step in bringing their Gigibite fiber to Nashville. Nashville BizBlog Google Fiber takes important step, files for state franchise certificate Nov 24, 2014, 10:18am CST Share on Google + Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Email this article Save Order Reprints Print Enlarge Photo Google has applied for a state-issued certificate of franchise authority with the Tennessee Regulatory … [Read more...]
Update on the debate over control of the Internet
From "THE REGISTER" US stakes out 'net battleground ahead of ITU meeting Governments shouldn't control 'content, technologies or services' By Richard Chirgwin, 29 Sep 2014 America is once again steeling itself to defend the Internet from the gasp of the ITU. A White House blog post by State Department officials Daniel Sepulveda, Christopher Painter and Scott Busby says the US still believes there are countries and groups that hope to use ITU mandates over the Internet as a … [Read more...]
The beleif that “Cloud” (hosted) data is more vulnerable to attack is a myth
The article below disproves the myth that Cloud IPSec is less secure. Cloud vs Premise-based- Which is more secure? … [Read more...]
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