A CEO has business meetings in London and Hong Kong, and in the mean time his company is acquiring a manufacturing center in South America. He is working with bankers in New York and Brazil to close the deal. In the interim the deal documents need to be reviewed and exchanged between all parties securely across borders, time zones, and teams. Luckily for the CEO he has an iPad®, so he can access and review documents throughout the deal regardless of whether he is in a taxi, on a train, or in his hotel room between meetings to ensure that the deal runs smoothly. 

There has been some media coverage over recent weeks about complaints filed against a cloud-based backup provider. The complaints allege that the company misrepresented their security features, primarily their lack of encryption.

Encryption should be a basic essential in providing a secure cloud-based service. This, therefore, seems like an appropriate time to share my thoughts on how businesses and consumers can recognize the proper implementation of encryption, giving them greater peace of mind as they finalize their choice of a cloud service provider.

This is the next in a series of guest blog posts by IntraLinks’ collaborators, partners, and vendors. Andreas Grabner is Sr. Architect and Technology Strategist at dynaTrace. dynaTrace is a technology leader in application performance management (APM). IntraLinks selected dynaTrace Continuous Application Performance Management to improve the operation of IntraLinks’ platform during the production lifecycle in September of 2009.

The Cloud has become the hot topic in the past year, with many major technology leaders (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, etc.) extensively promoting public cloud services. What is equally interesting is the growth of the so-called “private cloud”: whether large enterprises transitioning their datacenter infrastructure to cloud-based paradigms; or solution providers using their own cloud-based platforms to provide solutions more efficiently.

At the end of April, IntraLinks attended Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s largest information security event. Celebrating its 15th year, Infosecurity Europe attracted over 12,000 information security professionals to Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, where delegates gathered to discuss the most pressing information security issues and attend a variety of education sessions hosted by international speakers and industry experts.

With over 300 exhibitors, Infosecurity Europe provided the perfect opportunity to showcase new and innovative services to top security professionals across Europe. IntraLinks was there to showcase IntraLinks Courier, a secure, efficient and cost effective solution to streamline ad-hoc large file transfers. IntraLinks Courier seamlessly integrates with company email systems or can be used as a desktop application or via a web-based browser, introducing unmatched security to help business users securely exchange large files while maintaining compliance with requirements that govern their businesses.

This is the next in a series of guest blog posts by IntraLinks’ collaborators, partners, and vendors. Jim Reavis is co-founder and executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance. The CSA is dedicated to developing and promoting best practices to secure cloud computing, and counts among its constituency a broad group of stakeholders which include both providers and consumers of cloud computing. IntraLinks is one of the newest corporate members of the CSA.

In many respects cloud computing is not new as veteran companies such as SalesForce.com and IntraLinks have been delivering business applications as a hosted service for over a decade.