Will Regulators Kill the Cloud?
The industry dodged a bullet by adopting cloud computing when it did. I realized this at the Waters USA conference in New York this week.
Regulatory changes taking place in the global markets will definitely have an impact on firms’ infrastructure design, according to Andy Brown, group CTO at UBS, and Madge Meyer, chief innovation officer and technology fellow at State Street.
When grid, and then cloud computing, first gained traction in the industry, the global regulatory regime was relatively stable. Only a few well-known jurisdictions—Switzerland and China—had exceedingly tight data privacy rules compared to the rest of the world…
It Takes a Cloud to Secure a Cloud
Cloud security is a huge issue for businesses looking to take advantage of cloud technology but worried about data confidentiality, integrity and availability. According to Symantec’s 2011 State of Cloud Survey, cloud security is both a top goal and top concern for business decision makers who cite malware, theft and loss of confidential data as potential risks.
In this article, then, we’ll look at the challenges that accompany cloud security and how cloud-based security as a service overcomes the challenges of securing cloud networks.
Challenges of Cloud Security
Cloud computing is emerging as a dominant computing model because it offers tremendous scalability with pay-as-you-grow economics. Rather than investing hard dollars in data center infrastructure, companies can establish cloud instances to perform computing tasks and pay by the month. Cloud resources can scale up or down as needed, and because true cloud offerings span multiple data centers, the user is assured of business continuity in the event of a disaster at one data center…
EMC Offers Big Data, Cloud Architect Training
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has announced the start of EMC Proven Professional training and certifications to help businesses address skills transformation and the looming cloud computing and data science skills gap. Building on the company’s Cloud Architect training and certification program—the an "open" training and certification for cloud computing that focuses on the principles, best practices and underlying technology prevalent in the industry—EMC expanded the cloud computing curricula to include foundational cloud infrastructure and services and expert-level EMC cloud architect IT-as-a-service training and certifications.
According to a global survey of the data science community that was released by EMC, the most commonly cited barrier to data science adoption is a lack of employees with the right skills or training, and 65 percent of data scientists believe that in the future, demand for data scientists and data-driven teams will outpace the supply of talent. To address this, EMC is announcing a data science and big data analytics training and certification program with an open curriculum…
Rackspace Promotes Lew Moorman to President
Rackspace Hosting(R) today announced the promotion of Lew Moorman to President, effective immediately. Moorman, 41, will continue to report to Lanham Napier. With the promotion, Moorman will assume the title of President and Napier will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer. Previously Moorman was President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer.
For several years Moorman has driven strategic planning, product development, acquisitions, and other new business initiatives across the company. As President of Rackspace’s Cloud business he has led the company’s fastest growing business. In his new role as president of the company, Moorman will continue to own strategy and product development, including cloud computing technologies as well as the sales and support segments globally…
What’s the difference between Cloud Computing & Grid Computing?
Cloud computing and Grid computing are two different realms of managing IT related work activities in the smoothest way possible.
Where cloud computing is a branch of Information technology that invites businesses to become virtual, grid computing on the other hand calls for a shared environment on a common computer system from multiple administrative domains. Although, both of them function with a purpose to provide a good percentage of scalability levels to high-end computer networks, the cost of deploying these is equally high…
Beware Cloud Computing Advice from IT Research Firms
I don’t know how I missed this, but at the Gartner IT Symposium in October, Darryl Plummer (Chief of Gartner Cloud Research) apparently stated that enterprises should deploy applications in a public cloud provider as a default, and only deploy them in a private cloud if the public alternative is not appropriate.
I became aware of Plummer’s recommendation, which caused quite a stir in the blog world when he first announced it, via Twitter earlier this week.
Naturally, much of the furor over Plummmer’s pronouncement was a reaction to the quick summary: Gartner prefers public cloud. Wow. That’s a big deal, right? Gartner is probably telling all of its clients that they should trim their private cloud plans and instead focus on public cloud service providers. And, in response, all of its clients are scrapping their private cloud initiatives and planning a big move to public providers, right?…
Cloud Computing a Top IT Investment Priority: Report
As businesses get ready to capitalize on emerging technology trends in 2012, cloud computing remains at the top of many companies’ lists: Fifty percent of respondents to a recent Unisys (NYSE: UIS) online poll said cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. This is the second straight year respondents to a Unisys poll named cloud as the chief priority for IT investments in the coming year.
In a similar poll conducted in December 2010 and January 2011, 44 percent of 262 respondents said cloud computing topped their IT priority list for 2011. The more recent poll, which drew 300 responses, was conducted on the company’s Website in September and October 2011. Other respondents to the poll listed cyber-security (21 percent), mobile/social computing (21 percent) and big data (8 percent) as their top 2012 IT priorities…
4 Cost-Cutting Cloud Strategies for Campus IT
Grazed from Campus Technology. Author: Bridget Mcrea.
When Reed A. Sheard joined Westmont College as the institution’s first chief information officer, he was immediately tasked with turning around an IT department that–while talented and well intentioned–just wasn’t "getting the job done" when it came to advancing technology on campus. That was in 2008, the same year that phrases like "economic recession" and "budget cutbacks" were starting to become more common on college campuses.
"When the economic implosion occurred, nearly all schools went through budget adjustments," recalled Sheard, who is also vice president for college advancement for the Santa Barbara, CA, private college. He quickly found himself caught in the crossfire and attempting to improve Westmont College’s technology infrastructure on a lighter budget…
Telsist Data Center Introduces VideoCells’ WebVR, Cloud Based Video Surveillance to North America
Cloud computing continues to transform the way business is done. Through the power of the cloud and Telsist Communications the $10 billion and growing video surveillance industry is experiencing this transformation with video surveillance as a service (VSaaS). VSaaS is an IT solution routed through the cloud for greater efficiencies with more features and flexibility. This solution radically alters the landscape of the on-site DVR/NVR and analog camera dominated video surveillance market.
Telsist Communications is a cloud ready data center located in Montreal, Canada whose focus is to deliver comprehensive managed IT services. Partnered with VideoCells of Israel, Telsist is equipped to offer cloud-based managed video surveillance to its growing list of professional managed IT services. This VSaaS solution eliminates the need for on-site DVR/NVR as the video is transferred, hosted and stored at Telsist…
HP, Microsoft Forge Four-Year Cloud Pact
HP (NYSE:HPQ) Enterprise Services and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) have joined forces to offer global public and private cloud services, a four-year deal that will offer packaged bundles of HP and Microsoft gear and through which HP will resell Microsoft Office 365.
The two tech titans said Thursday that the goal of the pact is to bring customers into the cloud and help them make the shift from capital IT expenses to operational expenses.
For private cloud deployments, HP will offer Microsoft cloud productivity applications like Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 as a service from HP data centers as part of its HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Messaging, HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Collaboration and HP Enterprise Cloud Services-Real-Time Collaboration.
For public cloud, Microsoft will offer Microsoft Office 365 and other collaboration and productivity tools…