Identity and Security Management One of the big challenges sharing data between companies—for example, from your enterprise to an external cloud provider—is security management (authorization, access, and identity management). In a traditional, campus-wide IT network, security rules and roles are...

Transport Challenges—to WAN or not to WAN How do you reliably upload gigabytes or terabytes of files (for example, application data or virtual machines) from your internal IT network to your cloud provider at a reasonable cost, in a reasonable time-frame? Use FTP? Possibly, but not likely. You have...

Compatibility, Portability, Interoperability Imagine you’re a dock worker at the Port of Seattle in the 1950s having to handle hundreds of bushels of beans, halibut filets, and pallets of paint cans, all individually, and load them onto ships. It was costly and time-consuming labor. Malcolm McLean...