Cloud Security: Technology, Processes, Responsibility
Any proper solution that tries to address the cloud security issues that exist today must take into account the three sides of the security issue: technology, processes, and responsibility. Another important factor to take into account is that the details and the importance of each one of these, relative to the others, change according to where in the cloud stack we are. Building secure cloud software is very different from security at the cloud platform level, and from secure infrastructure as well…
Cloud Computing: BBH Solutions, Inc. Completes SOC 2 Type I Report for Confidentiality and Security
BBH Solutions, Inc., a leading New York City provider of converged network and cloud computing solutions, is pleased to announce they have successfully completed a SOC 2 (Service Organization Control) Type I report relevant to confidentiality and security.
The review, conducted by independent service auditor BDO, examined the design of BBH Solutions’ controls as a service provider to meet certain criteria for security and confidentiality principles established by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). The attestation by BDO firmly demonstrates BBH Solutions’ ability to deliver trusted services to its cloud computing customers…
Memset unveils cloud computing API
Cloud provider Memset announced has rolled out its own API that will allow customers to manage their entire cloud portfolio.
The launch of the API comes a year after the company started offering a private cloud service at the same price as its public cloud offering.
It enables customers to perform many of the same operations they can currently perform with their web based control panel, but from their own applications. This, Memset said, would present customers with a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration and scale requirements…
New book: Securing the Cloud
Cloud computing and cloud services have proliferated in the first place because of one simple reason: they lower the cost of doing business.
The worrying about the security implications of switching to the cloud has started a bit later, but as more and more companies started to migrate their assets and data – and as attackers spotted the trend – securing them against compromise became more and more important…
Five channel roles in Cloud Computing
With Gartner predicting Cloud Computing services will become a £95.7bn ($150bn) market by 2014, it’s clear that resellers need to act now to seize a slice of this opportunity. However, it’s not as simple as it sounds as there’s been plenty of confusion surrounding what is reality and what is hype where the Cloud is concerned. To cut through this, resellers need to identify their strategy to enable them to achieve high ROI in their local markets. Consequently, resellers across EMEA now want to know how they can step up to take real and practical Cloud service propositions to market.
To do this, resellers need to look at expanding their product portfolio to include the most in-demand cloud solutions for their markets and to quickly develop technology expertise to drive business growth. Essential to building up know-how in a new area like the Cloud is working with a well-known IT partner who has the necessary skills and who possesses local market knowledge. It’s important to recognise that Cloud is not dissimilar to other technologies in that customers need it to be positioned, evaluated, implemented and integrated into their IT environment. Resellers should feel assured that they can fulfil these key customer requirements very well indeed…
DRFortress Launches the First Local Pay-As-You-Use Cloud Computing Service for Hawaii and the Pacific Rim
DRFortress, Hawaii’s premier colocation and cloud services provider, today announced that it has launched DRFcloud, the first local, pay-as-you-use, cloud computing services based in the State and available throughout the Pacific Rim. This new service, offered in partnership with IaaS pioneer, Appcore, follows the successful start of the Nirvanix cloud storage service. Continuing to demonstrate leadership in the shift to the cloud in Hawaii, both the DRFcloud and the Nirvanix cloud storage hybrid node are maintained at the DRFortress datacenter in Hawaii with redundant mainland nodes for disaster recovery purposes.
"DRFortress has demonstrated extraordinary vision in delivering the first ‘On-Demand, Pay-by-the-Drink’ Cloud Storage and now the same for Cloud Computing Services to Hawaii," said Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting. "Hawaii IT organizations are now able to cost effectively take advantage of the cloud services revolution knowing their data and applications will be always be available regardless of local conditions."…
GoGrid’s Private Cloud Computing Solution Powers Business Services
GoGrid on Wednesday announced its Private Cloud infrastructure solution is powering a new network management application for Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated specifically to business-to-business services.
"We’re excited to work with Orange Business Service as they cloud-enable this important infrastructure monitoring service for their customers," said Jeffrey Samuels, CMO, GoGrid. "GoGrid’s Private Cloud was an ideal solution for their requirements because it provides true cloud-computing capabilities that can scale as needed and offer the requisite control and flexibility."…
Oracle launching cloud computing suite next week
Oracle plans to release a full suite of Internet-based applications next week in what will be the company’s biggest plunge into cloud-based business software, Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said Wednesday.
Ellison revealed the Redwood Shores company’s plans during a wide-ranging conversation before a crowd of executives at the D: All Things Digital conference.
“We’re announcing on June 6 the general availability of the Oracle Cloud,” Ellison said. “So for the first time, you’re going to have the complete ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) suite available in the cloud…
Oracle’s Ellison on cloud computing, sailing and more
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison’s appearance at the All Things D conference opened, appropriately, with a video ad depicting Oracle catamarans charging through rough water off San Francisco.
After chatting about Ellison’s America’s Cup exploits, host Kara Swisher asked about his perspective as perhaps the longest running tech chief executive in Silicon Valley, having run Oracle since 1977.
Ellison responded with a discussion about how different networks – such as electrical and phone networks – are similar to the Internet. They are complex networks that consumers access with simple devices…
Unified Communications in the Cloud: SIP-Trunking 101
The cloud isn’t just a medium for hosted computer applications – it’s also a medium for complex telephony applications. In fact, many companies are now integrating their old-style PBX systems with front-end software that allows older VoIP PBX gear to leverage the Internet for outside unified communications activity, such as phone calls, video calls, multiparty conferences, IM, media streaming, etc. The software that makes all of this possible is referred to as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) software.
A PBX with SIP is able to connect to the public telephone network (a.k.a. PSTN), via a SIP trunk provider who effectively acts as a gateway from the Internet to the PSTN. Hence, VoIP traffic, which is Internet-based, is seemlessly translated, or "trunked" onto the PSTN via the SIP-trunking provider, and vice-versa; yet, all other communication activity is handled by the native Internet…