Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud
Grazed from Network World. Author: Ellen Messmer.
Security monitoring — the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) — can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you’re using public cloud services, it’s time to think about doing it.
Security monitoring of assets that the enterprise has placed in cloud is still not a common practice, but it really should be, said Gartner analyst Anton Chuvakin during his presentation this week at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. There is always a “loss of control” when turning corporate data assets over to the cloud, Chuvakin says, but “you can compensate by increasing the visibility that comes with collection of logs and network traffic.”…
Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. The centerpiece of the company’s press conference — held today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston — were Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, both of which are essentially prepackaged combinations of the company’s existing products.
After twelve months of preparation, AwesomeCloud Services is proud to announce its launch as a 100% White Label Cloud Services Provider, enabling Channel Partners and Cloud Resellers to offer to their clients white label cloud computing services that can be easily rebranded and resold. AwesomeCloud offers Cloud Infrastructure, Business Continuity, and Microsoft SPLA licensing.
Betting on its belief that the future of cloud computing is both hybrid and open, Hewlett Packard debuted a collection of software and services it hopes will both encourage IT to implement their first private clouds and bolster its public cloud. The company rolled out software and a number of services under the OpenStack-based Cloud OS umbrella at its annual HP Discover conference here this week, which it believes better enables workload portability across hybrid clouds.
What does it mean to have a cloud of one’s own? Most of us would probably be satisfied with just the basics: Automatic file syncing, easy sharing features and efficient, Web-based access to data. But ownCloud, the open source cloud infrastructure project with humble beginnings, now offers much more, as the slew of innovative features in the most recent release of its mobile Android and iOS apps shows.
VMware Inc. today launched VMware vCenter Log Insight, a new log management and analytics product for the cloud era. The extension from analytics to logs will enable IT organizations to gain real-time insights from vast amounts of log data generated by applications, physical hardware and virtualized infrastructure.
SUSE and WSO2 today announced a partnership to provide jointly certified and supported middleware and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for developing and deploying next-generation applications on-premise or in cloud environments. SUSE and WSO2 have certified WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and the WSO2 Stratos PaaS foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and OpenStack-based private cloud platform SUSE Cloud.
As a company these days, it’s way too easy to find your data spread across a wide variety of cloud services. And when it comes to tying that information together in a meaningful way, the result can be pretty confusing if you don’t have a data infrastructure team to join the dots.
CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced support for GlassFish v3 while also making Java EE 7 immediately available to developers. CloudBees is the first PaaS provider to offer the new Java distribution on its platform. Java EE 7 features higher productivity and HTML5 support in the form of WebSocket and JSON.