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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). The third is compliance.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

Security is one of the main reasons why many businesses, especially small and medium businesses hold themselves back from taking advantage of powerful cloud technologies. This means that if someone hacks a single server, it puts many virtual machines or data of many customers at risk. VPC and VPN. Identity Management.