With so many cloud computing companies on the market today it means that choosing the right one who understands your business infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult. It is therefore important that you know what your exact requirements are so that you can do research and evaluate who the best cloud provider is for you. When carrying out your research there will be certain criteria that you should be looking for. Below is a list of the top four fundamental selection requirements for choosing a cloud computing service provider:
1) Reliability and Reputation
To understand a company's reliability and reputation it will be important to understand who the company is and how long they have been in the industry. It will also be important to look into the type of clients that a cloud provider has and what partnerships they have established. To fully understand a provider's reliability and reputation it would be worthwhile talking to some of their clients and partners to see what they have to say about the company. This is often the best way to gauge the reliability and reputation of a company first-hand.
2) Suitability
It will be important to fully understand whether your business has suitability to move into a cloud environment and what cloud computing solution is right for you. To understand suitability of the different types of cloud services you should look to providers who offer no-obligation free trials. This way you can see whether your business is acceptable in a cloud environment and see how the cloud service works before you make a long-term commitment.
3) Support and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Support and SLAs are vital to ensure against any downtime of the cloud. When looking at a cloud provider's support commitment you need to ensure that they will work quickly if any issues or downtime arises and that problems are dealt with in the agreed manner and to the agreed timescales. You should look for companies with dedicated support that have the capacity to deal with problems as and when they arise. When you speak to a cloud computing company or meet them at their offices you should ask to see the support department.
4) Security of the Cloud
Any company that moves into a cloud environment needs to ensure security of the environment and their business systems and processes. It is important to ensure that the selected cloud service provider offers a secure infrastructure at all levels and throughout the cloud services that they offer. The data centres that are provided will also need to be understood to ensure a consistent level of security as well.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Search Results Redirected - You Have The Redirect Virus
Search results get redirected all the time anymore do to the outbreak of the redirect virus, which carries many names, but is deeply rooted with the more severe Alureon rootkit trojan virus.
When you have this, the first warning sign is as follows. You type in a key phrase to lookup in a search engine such as Google, Yahoo or Bing. Your results come back, and click on one. Your search results are redirected to other pages that are not on topic and usually attempt to promote you something that you are not interested in.
This is the very first warning sign of the redirect virus, and as soon as you notice this you should take action immediately.
This threat can come from many different places, so pointing fingers is not necessary, and it affects many people every day, but more importantly is what you should know next.
If your search results are redirected 1 out of 3 times that you attempt to click through to a site, then you probably have the Google redirect virus. If this is the case then this means that you can potentially have the Alureon threat as well.
This particular rootkit is extremely difficult for anti virus software to stop or sometimes even detect. It can cause a sort of open wound in your computer, and allow a criminal to intercept key data through the internet and your machine.
Search results being redirected are the smaller problem, because this Alureon virus creates an almost undetectable doorway for a thief to steal passwords and financial banking information, and possibly your credit card data if it is stored on your hard drive.
To make matters worse, the redirect virus has been designed to make it as difficult as possible to remove. This is accomplished by causing your anti virus and malware protection programs to stop updating as needed, sabotaging the installing of new programs that might help, and eventually corrupting your keyboard or mouse so that you cannot use it.
Another warning sign is noticing the changing of your desktop wallpaper, which not everyone may experience. Search results can be redirected to other harmful sites that have been pre-established to download more potentially threatening malware onto your machine, and so internet criminals can have a feast.
When you have this, the first warning sign is as follows. You type in a key phrase to lookup in a search engine such as Google, Yahoo or Bing. Your results come back, and click on one. Your search results are redirected to other pages that are not on topic and usually attempt to promote you something that you are not interested in.
This is the very first warning sign of the redirect virus, and as soon as you notice this you should take action immediately.
This threat can come from many different places, so pointing fingers is not necessary, and it affects many people every day, but more importantly is what you should know next.
If your search results are redirected 1 out of 3 times that you attempt to click through to a site, then you probably have the Google redirect virus. If this is the case then this means that you can potentially have the Alureon threat as well.
This particular rootkit is extremely difficult for anti virus software to stop or sometimes even detect. It can cause a sort of open wound in your computer, and allow a criminal to intercept key data through the internet and your machine.
Search results being redirected are the smaller problem, because this Alureon virus creates an almost undetectable doorway for a thief to steal passwords and financial banking information, and possibly your credit card data if it is stored on your hard drive.
To make matters worse, the redirect virus has been designed to make it as difficult as possible to remove. This is accomplished by causing your anti virus and malware protection programs to stop updating as needed, sabotaging the installing of new programs that might help, and eventually corrupting your keyboard or mouse so that you cannot use it.
Another warning sign is noticing the changing of your desktop wallpaper, which not everyone may experience. Search results can be redirected to other harmful sites that have been pre-established to download more potentially threatening malware onto your machine, and so internet criminals can have a feast.
Next, you can remove it manually, but I suggest that you follow this guide to get the steps right. You can learn more about this virus and the guide at this site on the Google redirect virus.
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