Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Michael Vizard.

There’s a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Jody Ranck.

Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Juan Martinez.

Grazed from Experian QAS.  Author: Neil Hill.

Entrepreneurs who are getting a business off the ground could benefit from using cloud computing solutions.

This is the advice of Geekzone blogger Nate Dunn, who said a move to the cloud is a "great idea", especially when a company is just beginning to get going.

"Start up costs can be hefty and by using the cloud more, you can concentrate on your core business," he stated.

Mr Dunn explained cloud computing allows users to purchase the capacity they require at a specific moment, with the flexibility to upgrade this if it is deemed necessary.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Ryan Kim.

Grazed from Network Computing.  Author: Robert Mullins.

Dell has announced two new partnership deals that it says will improve its competitiveness in cloud computing. The company has partnered with Joyent, a cloud computing software and service provider, and Aster Data, a data management and analytics firm, to deliver their technology through Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) business.

The DCS effort is intended to help customers to built data centers optimized from the beginning for cloud computing, be they a private, public or hybrid model, said Roy Guillen, general manager of DCS, at a news conference Nov. 19 in San Francisco.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Arthur Cole.

The cloud may be the newest technology on the enterprise block, but in many ways it is following the same deployment pattern of previous hardware and software developments.

One habit that never seems to change is the need to get up and running with the latest offering and save pesky details like monitoring and management for later. Unfortunately, some top-tier firms that are already pushing workloads onto the cloud are finding that later is already here.

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Gordon Peters.

The contract, valued at about $1 million a year, requires Brennan to provide Northline with a hosted managed service, including servers, a national private network linking all Northline offices and telecommunications infrastructure that allows for portable personalised numbers and videoconferencing.

Northline CEO Craige Whitton, said the new technology infrastructure, backed by fully redundant Brennan IT data centres in Sydney and Brisbane, would allow the company to deploy the latest release software without any disruption.

Grazed from IT Wire.  Author: Stephen Withers.

Google has dramatically increased the functionality available to its commercial Google Apps customers by including its previously consumer-oriented applications such as Picasa Web Albums, Google Voice, Reader, and Blogger.

The significance is mainly that the change allows administrators to specify that groups have access to particular applications, as the additional apps are still only provided on a ‘best effort’ basis, with no guaranteed service levels or phone support.

Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Loraine Lawson.

I talk a lot about integration between the cloud and on-premise, but, by and large, that’s about integrating data. But when it comes to processing power, as far as I can tell, you pretty much have a choice: You’re on-premise or you’re off-premise, with something like Amazon EC2.

 

Microsoft, rather smartly, just added another option: Do both.