It’s a Long Road to a Secure Cloud
When it comes to cloud computing, the security and compliance landscape is riddled with pitfalls and continues to shift. During the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco this viewpoint seemed to dominate the conversations between IT professionals, industry analysts and others who study the security industry. The RSA conference hosted more than 30 sessions and presentations dealing with cloud security – signaling a real hunger for reliable information on this topic.
My opinion is that cloud security, particularly public cloud security, is wholly inadequate.
Public cloud vs. private cloud: Why not both?
As cloud computing moves from hype to reality, certain broad trends and best practices are emerging when it comes to the public cloud vs. private cloud deployment debate.
Anecdotally and from surveys, it’s becoming clear that most enterprises are first looking to the private cloud as a way to play with cloud tools and concepts in the safety of their own secure sandbox.
Where to start with public cloud computing
The first step is to evaluate your workloads, says Mark White, CTO for Deloitte Consulting’s technology practice.
"That’s step one, and the conversation is really about the services catalog," he says. "If the company already has an IT services catalog, those entries represent various workloads. If not, you’d look literally at IT services less formally and their workloads."
What’s in a Title for Enterprise Architects?
To avoid appearing any more ignorant than I normally do, I regularly quiz my fellow staffers on the finer points of IT. My question yesterday to fellow blogger Loraine Lawson has started a discussion about enterprise architects.
Apixio Is Bringing Big Data to Medical Records in the Cloud
Salesforce.com applications ‘to be improved by Radian6 purchase’
Salesforce.com applications are set to improve as a result of the company’s purchase of social media monitoring organisation Radian6.
This is according to Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com, who said the deal represents a "huge opportunity" for the cloud computing business to expand its operations.
"Not only will this acquisition accelerate our growth, it will extend the value of all of our offerings," he stated.
HP adds support for Google Cloud Print service
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Thursday enhanced its mobile printing service by adding support for Google’s Cloud Print, which will enable smartphones and tablet users to print documents from applications such as Gmail and Google Docs.
Users will be able to remotely print documents from applications on select HP printers with the EPrint capability, in which an email with print instructions is sent directly to the printer. The mobile application needs to have Google’s Cloud Print extensions.
Microsoft tops cloud service table
Microsoft Windows Azure has topped a cloud service table analysing the four months to January.
According to the table, produced by Compuware, the Google App Engine is narrowly beaten into second place, followed by GoGrid.
In January alone, average response times globally on Windows Azure were 10.229 seconds, according to the data, followed by 10.263 on Google App Engine.