Cloudiquity

As well as being SAS 70 Type II-certified Amazon is now ISO 27001 certified. ISO/IEC 27001 formally outlines a management system that brings information security under management control, and mandates requirements that have to be met. Organisations that have adopted ISO/IEC 27001 may be formally audited to maintain compliance with the standard. As stated on [...]

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Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from [...]

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