Out of the 'Blue Cloud': Top Cloud Stories 2014

This year, Cloud Security joined mainstream cloud conversations. Cloud storage generated many of the year’s top news stories; from advanced technology announcements to market changing acquisitions. Here are the Top-3 stories that we feel have shaped-up Cloud in 2014.


Why does Amazon still dominate the Cloud world?
For those of us who witnessed AWS re:Invent 2014, will agree to the fact that AWS continues to spearhead Cloud arena with its new services that fit well into enterprise IT needs. 
 
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Microsoft and Amazon’s cloud war reaches next level

 

As the year ends, the world looks forward to seeing big announcements from these 2 cloud biggies.
 
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 Taking the Next Step Forward in Cloud Security: IntegrityDown to the Processor Level 
To make sure that security is well-addressed across all the notions of cloud storage,  Intel TXT and TPM present a new way to not only make cloud environments more secure, but also assure the deployment of latest advances in cloud security and compliance.

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