Many Clouds. One API. No Problem. The Case For and Against Private Clouds: Conclusion - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. CIO — For the past few weeks I've been discussing private clouds—clouds devoted to a single entity. The very term private cloud is a bit loaded, in that some people feel that what one is really talking about is an internal cloud that is located in an organization's own data center. Others point out that a dedicated cloud can also be hosted by a hosting provider or an outsourcer; indeed, many hosting providers and outsourcers are scrambling to implement cloud environments, seeing public clouds as a threat that must be answered lest business slip away. [ Read the whole CIO.com series by Bernard Golden on private clouds.
See Defining Private Clouds, Part One, Defining Private Clouds, Part Two, The Case For Private Clouds and The Case against Private Clouds. ] My view is that private cloud is probably a better term; however, one must be careful to distinguish the implementation location, as some aspects of a private cloud hosted externally differ from an internal counterpart. Fair enough. Trusted Cloud. RSA Conference 2014 Redux If you follow me on Twitter, you probably noticed a heightened volume of Tweets from me during the RSA Conference in San Francisco. It was great catching up with many of you based stateside that I rarely get to see in person. I was also fortunate enough to be allowed to attend sessions and live-Tweeted … +read more Share Australia’s new Privacy Principles – Things to Consider Effective 12th March 2014, Australia’s Information Privacy Principles and National Privacy Principles was replaced by 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). +read more Healthcare Part 1 – HIMSS 2014: A Record Breaking Event I attended the HIMSS 2014 conference in Orlando last week and this was my first time at this event.
+read more HIMSSSanity 2014 – Day 1 is in the Books! What a day at HIMSS 2014 today. +read more Badge In At HIMSS 2014 The count down starts as I and 37,000+ prepare to be snowbirds for the week in sunny Orlando. +read more +read more +read more +read more The signs are all there. The Case Against Cloud Computing, Part One - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. CIO — I've had a series of interesting conversations with people involved in cloud computing who, paradoxically, maintain that cloud computing is—at least today—inappropriate for enterprises.
I say paradoxically because each of them works for or represents a large technology company's cloud computing efforts, and one would think their role would motivate them to strongly advocate cloud adoption. So why the tepid enthusiasm? For a couple of them, cloud computing functionality is really not ready for prime time use by enterprises.
For others, cloud computing is too ambiguous a term for enterprises to really understand what it means. I thought it would be worthwhile to summarize the discussions and identify and discuss each putative shortcoming. There are five key impediments to enterprise adoption of cloud computing, according to my conversations. . Naturally, performing this migration would not be free; either software must be purchased or services paid for. Technology Review: Industry Challenges: The Standards Question. Cloud computing involves the movement of content and applications from personal computers and private data centers to platforms floating somewhere in cyberspace. Users are tethered to their digital property only by an Internet connection; someone else provides and maintains the hardware and software supporting the services they use.
Ideally, this shouldn’t give users anything to worry about. Reality, of course, is different. “We still have a long way to go to define what clouds can do and how users should interact with them,” says Vint Cerf, a father of the Internet who is now a vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. Customers are typically concerned about the security and reliability of cloud providers’ operations.
Cloud users have the option of taking security into their own hands, says John Landwehr, director of security solutions and strategy at Adobe Systems. Computer Security Division - Computer Security Resource Center. CloudStandards. Busting the Nine Myths of Cloud Computing - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. InfoWorld — Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is essential to deciding whether, when, and how the cloud is right for you.
Here's our top list of myths: 10 Cloud Computing Companies to WatchCloud Computing: Hype Versus Reality Myth No. 1: There's one single "cloud" There are at least three forms of "cloud computing," each with different benefits and risks. They are 1) "infrastructure as a service" (bare-metal virtual servers available on demand from the likes of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud); 2) Web services providers, or "platform as a service," which are APIs or development platforms that let customers create and run apps in the cloud; and 3) software as a service, applications such as Salesforce.com's CRM software that users access over the Internet with little or no code running on their own machines. [ What exactly is the cloud?
Myth No. 3: The cloud reduces your workload In the long run, maybe. Cloud Computing Definitions and Solutions - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. Cloud computing: The very definition of cloud computing remains controversial. Consulting firm Accenture has crafted a useful, concise definition: the dynamic provisioning of IT capabilities (hardware, software, or services) from third parties over a network. Cloud computing is computing model, not a technology. In this model of computing, all the servers, networks, applications and other elements related to data centers are made available to IT and end users via the Internet, in a way that allows IT to buy only the type and amount of computing services that they need.
The cloud model differs from traditional outsourcers in that customers don't hand over their own IT resources to be managed. Instead they plug into the "cloud" for infrastructure services, platform (operating system) services, or software services (such as SaaS apps), treating the "cloud" much as they would an internal data center or computer providing the same functions. What is cloud computing? Continue Reading. Cloud Security: Ten Questions to Ask Before You Jump In - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership. The hype around cloud computing would make you think mass adoption will happen tomorrow. But recent studies by a number of sources have shown that security is the biggest barrier to cloud adoption. The reality is cloud computing is simply another step in technology evolution following the path of mainframe, client server and Web applications, all of which had — and still have — their own security issues.
Cloud Computing Definitions and Solutions Security concerns did not stop those technologies from being deployed and they will not stop the adoption of cloud applications that solve real business needs. Defining Cloud Security: Six PerspectivesCloud Security: Danger (and Opportunity) Ahead Organizations are asking many questions and weighing the pros and cons of utilizing cloud solutions. 1. 2. Continue Reading. 10 big cloud trends for 2010 - cloud computing, Forecast 2010. RSA 2010 -- Day 2 Part 2 - Travis Spencer - Software Engineer. Technology Review: Self-Policing Cloud Computing. Cloud computing presents inherent privacy dangers, because the cloud provider can see a customer’s data and leased computational apparatus, known as “virtual machines.”
New research suggests that as long as the cloud can see things, it might as well check that its customers aren’t running malicious code, new research suggests. Researchers at IBM’s Watson Research Center in Yorktown, NY, and IBM’s Zurich Research lab have developed a system for cloud computing “introspection monitoring,” in which elements of the cloud would act as a kind of virtual bouncer. They’d frisk virtual machines to check what operating systems they’re using, whether they are running properly, and whether they contain malicious code, such as root-kits.
“It works by looking inside the virtual machine and trying to infer what it does. The work by IBM was one of several papers presented last Friday at the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, a first-of-its-kind event. Technology Review: Vulnerability Seen in Amazon's Cloud-Computing. Leading cloud-computing services may be vulnerable to eavesdropping and malicious attacks, according to research that shows it is possible for attackers to precisely map where a target’s data is physically within the “cloud” and then use various tricks to gather intelligence. The study probed Amazon’s industry-leading Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) service, but “we firmly believe these vulnerabilities are generic to current virtualization technology and will affect other providers as well,” says Eran Tromer, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who performed the work with three colleagues from the University of California at San Diego.
Ron Rivest, a computer science professor at MIT and pioneer in cryptography, says the four researchers have “discovered some troubling facts” about cloud-computing services, which rent out computing resources, including storage and processing power, on a by-the-hour basis.