Corporate Cloud Adoption A couple of weeks back, Solar VPS President and COO Ross Brouse (@RossBrouse), gave a technical keynote presentation at New York City’s Cloud Expo. The presentation covered corporate Cloud adoption – how Cloud adoption begins on the couch and makes it all the way to the boardroom. Well, in this short article, we are going to run with that flag and dive into the topic a bit. So, if you’re a company of any size looking to fully Cloudize (word, not a word? We think it should be), err, make the jump into the Cloud, here are a few tips for successful Cloud computing adoption. Understand the Difference Before even considering a move into the Cloud, companies and non-IT minds need to understand the difference between the public Cloud and the private Cloud. Are you streaming music via Spotify right now? Are you looking at a friend’s Facebook status, tweeting to a person halfway across the world or downloading data from a shared Dropbox account? If so, you are using the public Cloud. The public Cloud, is as the name suggests, for public use. On the other hand, a private Cloud deployment is a Cloud deployed and maintained behind a private, closely guarded, corporate firewall. All the data stored in the private Cloud require corporate access keys and are housed behind a stringent firewall to ensure security. When deploying a corporate Cloud, although some employees might use applications like Dropbox, Box.net and SugarSync to store less vital all information, the most sensitive data is stored, secured and kept behind your corporate firewall, in your corporate private Cloud only accessible using the right access keys. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Means Everything When it comes to corporate Cloud adoption, the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement is paramount. Why is that? Well, think about it this way. If you work for a company who issues you a device instead of allowing you to use your own personal device, you now have two devices with different purposes. One device is for your personal life and one device is for your work life. However this creates an issue. It means, subconsciously, that employees can’t check in with their personal lives while at work and while at home, the last thing they want to do is check in with their work lives. This division is not good. A person is more than a simple division. The fix is BYOD. The Bring Your Own Device movement allows consumers to bring their personal devices to work and use their personal devices for work. By synching with the corporate exchange server, corporate apps, corporate WordPress blogs etc. on their personal device, employees no longer need to worry about that work/life division. Instead of only checking personal email accounts, an employee can and now will check both personal and work accounts at the same time. The joining of work and life means a blurring of the work/life balance but it also means – and this … Continue