How to protect your IP in the cloud
Around this time last year, the cloud computing contract signings were coming fast and furious — not just for commodity work like IT management or email, but for software and infrastructure closer to the core of corporate value. Not long after that, the calls started to come in to Greg Bell, principal and the Americas service leader for information protection at KPMG.
Cloud services customers more often line of business leaders that IT executive — were panicked as they began to realize that their intellectual property (IP) was now at risk. Some, like one client who discovered that he’d potentially exposed his company’s precious formulas, had to bring the software and associated processes back in-house — at no small expense. "They quickly went through an assessment, made very aggressive movement [into cloud computing], and then had to retreat because they were not able to put the proper controls in place," says Bell…
ScienceLogic Wins 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
The ScienceLogic(TM) IT operations and cloud management platform has been named a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner by global, integrated media company TMC and Cloud Computing Magazine. The ScienceLogic platform won because it gives service providers and corporations visibility into and control over their public and private cloud-based resources along with their data center infrastructures, all from the same management console.
"Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce ScienceLogic as a recipient of the first Cloud Computing Excellence Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "The ScienceLogic platform has demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve cloud management."…
Ixia Supports European Advanced Networking Test Center In First Comprehensive Data Centre Cloud Validation
Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading global provider of converged IP and wireless network test solutions, today announced its participation in the first public test of a cloud infrastructure in conjunction with EANTC and Cisco. EANTC-independently led testing that showcased Cisco’s expertise in providing the comprehensive end-to-end functionality required to deliver next-generation cloud data centres from application delivery through to core switching. The testing highlighted Ixia’s unique ability to completely characterise a complex cloud network using several of its physical and virtualised testing solutions working together.
The success of cloud computing and the online applications it enables has brought about a new paradigm of user experience and expectations. Users now expect access to a wide range of media-rich applications and services, instantly, from any location. Virtualisation makes more efficient and flexible use of data centre resources, but increases the workload and complexity of server architecture and network infrastructure, putting new and significant demands on both resources. Add to this the security concerns and the ongoing migration to IPv6 and deploying public cloud networks can be a daunting process…
Caduceus Software Plans to Integrate a Cloud Platform with its Software Systems; Health Records in the Cloud
Caduceus Software Systems Corp., is pleased to inform the public of some of its current project and software undertakings. The Company’s flagship product, Caduceus MMS version 1.0, is an all-in-one software solution for medical offices which practitioners and medical clerks can use to manage patient bookings, patient private diagnoses and data (also known as Electronic Health Records, or EHR), and process billing (also known as Electronic Medical Billing, or EMB).
The Company believes its cloud computing undertaking is well positioned to take advantage of the demand for cloud services. For example articles such as the following have been written that called the move of health records to the cloud as the "next big thing:"…
Cloud Computing: The State of the Modular Data Center
It’s been more than five years since the unveiling of the Sun Blackbox, the first commercial data center container. Modular designs are now common in huge cloud data centers and high-performance computing (HPC), and vendors say they are poised to push further into the mainstream.
What’s the state of the modular market? Five years in, the questions abound: Are any customers really buying them? Who are they? How large is the potential market? What does the analyst community think about modular data centers?
Here’s an update in which we answer these questions…
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 6
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 6
This is the seventh in a continuing series on startups raising funding. You can read the first six in the series here:
1. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 5
2. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 4
3. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 3
4. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 2
5. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1
6. Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money
Today, there are two startups in focus – Code 42 and Knowlarity…
Cloudyn Ends Need for Rampant Over-Provisioning in the Cloud
Cloudyn today announced the general availability of the next generation in cloud cost management solutions, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for dynamically optimizing the costs of cloud computing resources. Cloudyn’s technology provides cost visibility, control and optimization for cloud customers. Cloudyn doesn’t just provide customers with insight into cloud usage and spending, it provides personalized next steps. Cloudyn’s recommendations engine provides maximum savings without impacting operational efficiency or using intrusive software that takes control away from the customer.
"Many organizations that deploy applications on public clouds have been surprised with unexpectedly high bills. Unfortunately, cost calculators, monitoring tools and rigid spending controls fall short when it comes to balancing spending and performance," said Paul Burns, President of Neovise, an analyst firm focused on cloud computing. "Cloudyn moves beyond those approaches by providing intelligent and actionable recommendations for rightsizing cloud resources. By providing feedback on an ongoing basis, Cloudyn lets users optimize spending while maintaining performance, even as the environment changes."…
Cloud computing security: no more oxymoron?
It would seem that cloud computing has crossed the Rubicon. Until quite recently, the main objection to cloud computing cited by surveys and anecdotal evidence alike has been the issue of security. Where is my data, will it be secure against hackers and hardware failure and can I get it back again have all been highly pertinent and frequently asked questions. I think that’s changing.
Cloud computing is of course, primarily about hosting your data somewhere other than your own premises. Yes, I know about private clouds but for the purposes of this discussion, I’m talking about public clouds. And rightly so, before doing that, companies ask the questions above, and more, in order to assure themselves that their single biggest and most precious asset isn’t going to disappear on them. There’s a couple of pieces of evidence which suggest that this is changing…
Cloud Computing: With $50M raised, Nicira disrupts Cisco and Juniper Networks with network virtualization
Network virtualization start-up Nicira is coming out of stealth mode today and it has an impressive set of customers who evidently believe that it can disrupt the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The idea is to become a company that can offload data networking demand as needed in the age of cloud computing.
If it lives up to its billing, as some of its customers say it does, it can save tens of million of dollars in spending on data centers and network infrastructure.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Nicira has secured $50 million in investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and NEA, as well as VMware founder Diane Greene and venture capitalist Andy Rachleff…
Cloud Computing: Application Services and PaaS
One of the first things I learned when I started talking with clients about their plans for platform-based clouds is that there is no such thing as a ‘simple application environment.’ Even for the most basic, CRUD-style applications, you can count on there being numerous different components involved in the overall solution. While one may immediately identify application servers, web servers, and databases, it quickly becomes clear that LDAP servers, identify management components, data grids, load balancers, and more are equally important. Indeed, the enterprise application ecosystem is not one where the word ‘simple’ is often tossed about.
The inherent complexity of enterprise application environments has had, and will continue to have a significant impact on the design and implementation of many PaaS solutions. In fact, one could argue that the preeminent design point in many PaaS solutions on the market today is rooted in eliminating this complexity. To do this, PaaS solutions attempt to abstract all the way up to the application level. In other words, users supply application artifacts and possibly define application characteristics. From there, it is the job of the PaaS system to handle the underlying application infrastructure, completely absolving the deployer from having to get into the nitty-gritty of the application serving environment…