Month: March 2014

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: James Staten.

BYOE, or bring your own encryption, is a cloud computing security model that allows cloud services customers to use their own encryption software and manage their own encryption keys. It works by allowing customers to deploy a virtualized instance of their own encryption software alongside the business application they are hosting in the cloud. The business application is configured so that all its data is processed by the encryption application, which then writes the ciphertext version of the data to the cloud service provider’s physical data store. 

In this Ask the Expert, James Staten, an analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc., discusses with SearchCIO Senior Features Writer Karen Goulart why this model is important for enterprises today, the skills required to employ BYOE and when the trend will peak…

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: David Davis.

Cloud Computing is all the rage right now and you likely are being barraged by every vendor under the sun about it. But, how can you tell if the cloud is really beneficial for you or if it’s just a bunch of marketing hype?

The most useful form of cloud computing marketed toward data center admins and infrastructure professionals is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With IaaS, you are simply running your servers in the provider’s data center. This model gives you elasticity, pay as you go pricing and the ability to offload the work associated with running those servers. However, with a typical IaaS provider, your servers aren’t on your network…

Grazed from EnterpriseCIO.  Author: Rick Blaisdell.

When it comes to emerging technologies, cloud computing has drawn more controversy than any other tech out there. These two words have driven countless debates, caused numerous arguments in IT departments and, more often than we like to admit, have left many in the industry profoundly confused.

But interest has continued to increase and many companies have successfully moved part or their entire IT into the cloud. We are currently moving and living in the cloud era, and our thinking is being shaped by several key areas like the need for flexible IT infrastructure, the emergence of big data analytics and increased mobile usage…

Grazed from WashingtonPost.  Author:  Mohana Ravindranath.

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Dell to build a private Internet cloud for the agency, the company announced Wednesday.  The NRC is responsible for regulating nuclear power and materials, as well as inspecting nuclear facilities and licensing.

Grazed from ScientificComputing.  Author: Tom Abate.

Just as Netflix uses an algorithm to recommend movies we ought to see, a Stanford software system offers by-the-moment advice to thousands of server-farm computers on how to efficiently share the workload.

We hear a lot about the future of computing in the cloud, but not much about the efficiency of the data centers that make the cloud possible. In those facilities, clusters of server computers work together to host applications ranging from social networks to big data analytics…