For organisations wishing to implement cloud services, a compliance evaluation should be mandatory.
How should organisations approach a compliance evaluation?
First consider the legal and regulatory requirements of the sector.
Second consider the adherence to these regulations in terms of the following:
Geographical – where are Datacentres located. Pay particular attention to any back up Datacentres or third party [...]
Read more or comment >>Cloud computing, specifically on the desktop with Google Apps and the imminent arrival of the web version of Microsoft Office 2010 is creating a step change in the price point for Desktop services. However, the adoption of cloud computing presents completely new challenges to printing.
Whilst not scheduled to be available until Q4 2010 printing expert [...]
Rentokil Initial plans to rolling Google Apps to 35,000 users globally, consolidating 40 email systems including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a single email system.
“The company has evolved with each business buying its own systems. We also acquired a number of companies. We had difficulty in sending email across the company,” said [...]
The UK’s Royal Mail Group has extended its full outsourcing contract signed in 2003 to provide cloud computing information technology (IT) services based on Microsoft technology.
Under terms of the contract, Royal Mail Group’s 30,000 employees with access to new IT services using Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), part of Microsoft Online Services.
