Category: News

Grazed from Gov Info Security.  Author: Jeffrey Roman.

Cloud computing continues to be a hot topic for organizations, says Entrust’s David Rockvam. What issues should be top-of-mind when using the cloud, and how can organizations ensure security?

"How you get there is going to be really important," says Rockvam, Entrust’s CMO and GM of its Certificate Services business. Whether organizations are outsourcing and using cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com, or putting their own internal applications into the cloud, "You have to make sure you’re securing the cloud," Rockvam says in an interview with Information Security Media Group’s Tom Field [transcript below].

Organizations need to ensure that authentication and encryption are in place, Rockvam says. "You’re going to have to be making sure that those channels to and from the cloud are protected," he says, especially mobile devices which are often used to access cloud-based applications…

Grazed from IT Pro Portal.  Author: Alex Serban.

Telecom operator CTM and famous networking firm Cisco have partnered with the purpose of launching new cloud technologies, which will take advantage of the different aspects of cloud computing, a domain currently on the rise. These upcoming technologies include Cisco CloudVerse, Cloud Infrastructure Service and "Business Talk" Unified Communication Service.

The two companies describe Cisco CloudVerse as a service meant to help organisations to build, manage and connect clouds of all kinds: public, private or hybrid. This programme brings together several technologies like the Cloud Intelligent Network, Unified Data Center plus Cloud Applications and Services…

Grazed from Techworld.  Author: Brandon Butler.

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

CipherCloud, a leading provider of cloud encryption gateways for public and private clouds, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a Corporate Member. The CSA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the use of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

CipherCloud is currently working with the CSA on CloudAudit, a project designed to enable automation and integration of CSA research into technology solutions. Additionally, CipherCloud will be involved with the CSA’s two new initiatives, Cloud Data Governance and Innovation, designed to deliver upon the alliance’s mission while accelerating delivery of a trusted cloud ecosystem…

Grazed from Business Wire.  Author: PR Announcement.

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, announced today that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of its OnDemand Top 100 winners in the Cloud – Infrastructure category. Inclusion in this year’s OnDemand 100 is reserved for companies that are true leaders, developing game-changing approaches and technologies that are disrupting existing markets and entrenched players. This marks the second consecutive year that GoGrid has been selected for the OnDemand Top 100.

GoGrid was recognized by the AlwaysOn editorial team, partners from leading venture-capital firms, and industry experts across the globe based on its innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. The 3-month selection process scours the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 100 private companies that are re-creating data management, customer relationships, and infrastructure by building industry-disruptive solutions…

Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

A new survey released today by Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing, reveals that IT teams from mid-sized UK and US businesses polled still spend over half (56 per cent) of their time on server management and troubleshooting in a typical month, and only 28 per cent on strategic, ‘value-added’ activities. Despite the widespread availability of cloud and managed hosting, many organisations are clinging to physical servers, leaving in-house IT teams struggling with troubleshooting and capacity planning amid demands from their bosses to do more for less.

The Cloud Reality Check survey provides insight into how IT decision-makers at 500 mid-sized UK and US businesses approach server management and its related challenges. The new survey results are compared to the results of a near-identical study Rackspace commissioned in 2009, No More Servers, which contained responses from the same number of businesses similarly situated…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Rauline Ochs.

IPED recently completed a 2012 study assessing customer and partner opinion regarding the need for cloud brokers to consolidate services for the customer when cloud services deliver customer IT capabilities. Gartner positions and defines the cloud broker as follows: A successful cloud-computing strategy often involves customizing services from one or more vendors. One way to do this is through an intermediary service provider, a Cloud Services Brokerage.

Forty-two percent of customer respondents indicated a cloud broker is critical or important to their cloud services plans today. Another 13 percent believe a cloud broker is critical when the customer’s IT delivery model includes three to five or more cloud services. A customer cited cloud brokerage services as moderately important today but increasing in importance as they increased their usage of private cloud and introduced more public cloud services into their systems mix…

Grazed from MSN Money.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon (AMZN +0.74%) is the world’s largest online retailer and also runs the largest cloud-computing platform, called Amazon Web Services.

The platform has gained an amazing amount of traction in the last couple of years, but it still gets the cold shoulder from large companies. Those corporations understandably prefer to lock up data on their own servers where they can secure it…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: James Carlini.

Many organizations are starting to look at cloud computing as a universal solution, but there are many applications that cannot be considered unless the framework of cloud computing includes Timing as a Service (TaaS)© as part of its fabric. Mission-critical applications require security measures including encryption, monitoring, and redundancy/resiliency, but that is not enough.

If cloud computing is going to spread to more mission critical-type applications, it needs to get more exact and accurate when it comes to transaction-based applications. Trying to keep everything in a structured framework is going to require a more rigorous network infrastructure that includes timing down to milliseconds, if not nanoseconds.

Financial transactions that can already be generated by "robotic traders" are being sent across networks at a very rapid rate. When you have thousands upon thousands of transactions being generated in a few seconds, you need to be able to sort them out if something happens and you want to replicate (or re-construct) the event…

Grazed from Business Insider.  Author: Firas Raouf.

I cringe a little bit when I hear people describe cloud-based technology and services as revolutionary.

What’s really revolutionary about it? As Jerome Lecat wrote in this VentureBeat article last November, cloud computing services first came about almost 50 years ago, and continued to evolve in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s with ASP and SaaS models. The modern cloud, quite simply, is just another metamorphosis of those concepts.

So, really, if the cloud is anything today, it’s evolutionary  —not revolutionary. More specifically, it’s created a major change in the way consumers view technology and service, and how companies deliver those things…