Why CISPA could kill the cloud
Opponents of CISPA [1] such as the ACLU have focused almost exclusively on the bill’s potential impact on individual user’s privacy, and understandably so. But a close read of CISPA’s broad language [2] reveals that Joe Internet’s privacy isn’t all that would be in jeopardy if the bill makes it through the Senate and past President Obama’s veto pen. CISPA poses a threat to the privacy of entire organizations, from nonprofits and small business on up to the enterprise — and even to the very future of cloud computing.
Drawing from the bill’s exact language, CISPA would permit "certified entities" and "cyber security providers" to "voluntarily" share any customer data with other certified entities, so long as the data constitutes "cyber threat intelligence" for "cyber security purposes" — as well as for the sake of "national security."…
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Zenith Infotech, a leading Indian IT product company in the US, today announced the launch of its new product TigerCloud which is primarily aimed at mid-size organisations. TigerCloud is a high performance private cloud product that combines server, storage and network virtualization technology and allows customers to build and have their own sophisticated private clouds at costs lower than public clouds. Based on Intel® Xeon® E3 processor family, TigerCloud is a three-in-one product, combining private cloud, business continuity & backup as well as scale out iSCSI storage.
GraphOn Corporation , a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery and Web-enabling solutions, announced today that it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced it is collaborating with IBM to deliver increased business agility, mobility, and cost-effective integration of virtual application delivery controller (ADC) solutions for customers building applications with IBM SmartCloud.
OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading global provider of enterprise data center solutions, today announced a new US$20 million investment in the company’s cloud and data center infrastructure. With this investment, OnX becomes one of the first to market with a dual data center cloud strategy in Canada. The new investment will help OnX expand its cloud offerings to clients throughout North America in the enterprise market who are seeking a high-availability solution with multiple facility failover capacity.