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The Benefits of Cloud Computing
Steve Pailthorpe, 
03 May 2012

The greatest benefit of cloud computing is the reduction in costs that can be attributed to moving a company’s data away from a physical server environment to the cloud. McKinsey’s recent study in 2011 found that Fortune 500 companies reduced their costs by an average of 40% by moving to a hosted cloud computing infrastructure.

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Commensus Platform Achieves vCloud Powered Accreditation
Steve Pailthorpe, 
22 March 2012

Commensus are proud to announce that our Secure Cloud Platform has achieved  VMware vCloud Powered status, demonstrating that our cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and hybrid cloud computing technology. Commensus is now listed in the top UK virtualisation service providers to have obtained this accreditation which sets us apart from our competitors.

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Ninety Fund Managers Learn about the Benefits of the Hybrid Cloud
Steve Pailthorpe, 
22 March 2012
Following the success of the first Commensus breakfast seminar at The Connaght Hotel in January, Commensus invited Hedge Fund Managers from across the City of London to attend a second session yesterday morning.  The event was hugely successful with over ninety funds and alternative investment firms in attendance. Commensus, VMware and Bloomberg spoke on the subject of ‘The Future of Cloud Computing’ and gave a high level overview of how Fund Managers could leverage the benefits of the Cloud to gain business agility and increased performance.
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The Future of Server Hosting – The Cloud Will Take Care of Itself
admin, 
15 March 2012

James Urquhart is a respected cloud computing writer. His articles are frequently splattered across the Internet and he has been writing about server hosting since, what feels like, the dawn of time. With over 20 years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment, this dedicated technology and IT writer has shown a special interest in virtualisation and server hosting in recent years.

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IT Infrastructure Savings with Cloud Computing
admin, 
12 March 2012

The running of an effective IT system is one of a company’s most expensive features. With today’s unpredictable financial climate, the search to find savings is well under way and thanks to our innovative technology here at Commensus, we can guide you in the right direction. Cloud computing allows you to aggregate all of your computer resources into one single shared virtual space easily accessible via the Internet for an affordable monthly fee.

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Twelve Principles of Effective Cloud Computing
Steve Pailthorpe, 
29 February 2012

One of the globe’s leading not-for-profit IT security associations, ISACA, has today revealed its six principles for effective cloud computing. This coupled with their publication form a guidance for new businesses planning to move from on-premise servers to the Cloud, ultimately looking towards the utility-computing based model.

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Cloud Takes A Hit: Amazon Must Fix EC2
Steve Pailthorpe, 
15 February 2012

Amazon's "availability zones" were a key protective concept for the cloud, but they failed to protect access to data when EC2 went down. It has been almost a year since AWS took a massive hit with its North American Data Center Outages, as the annivesary of this event draws closer it is a good time for all of us to reflect on how important it is to mitigate risk in IT. Whether you are an advocate on premise solutions or focused on the Cloud for IT resources, both come with there unique sets of risks.

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