CSC - 2010 January | Enterprise Cloud Computing

What’s The Difference Between Security And Trust In The Cloud?

January 27th, 2010 By Ron Knode

Share

whats-the-difference-between-security-and-trust-in-the-cloud

trust-in-clouds I felt compelled to respond after reading Chris Hoff’s “Cloud: Security Doesn’t Matter (Or, In Cloud, Nobody Can Hear You Scream),” at his blog Rational Survivability. This post originally appeared as a comment to his post.

I am working with Hoff as a member of the A6 (Automated Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance API) group working on cloud security interoperability standards.

Hoff’s point is well said. It’s a forceful (and entertaining) echo in the cloud of earlier discoveries and comments about the ultimate importance of “trust” versus other words often intended to characterize related aspects (e.g., security, privacy), but which do not represent the real need, and so should never be confused as synonyms.

A Video Byte On BPOS

January 20th, 2010 By Jay Noble

comments

Share

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services — the suite of software that includes Exchange, Sharepoint, Office products, also known as BPOS — is an easily understandable example of cloud computing. It’s a per-month-per-user charge for what used to come on CD-ROMs with license fees, with all the applications and documents now hosted by Micrsoft data centers.

Tags: Jay Noble, Microsoft BPOS
Posted in Cloud Conversations | Comments

Is Cloud Computing Reaching Its Inflection Point?

January 18th, 2010 By Jay Noble

comments

Share

is-cloud-computing-reaching-its-inflection-point

The tricky thing about inflection points is they are hard to see when you are in them and painfully obvious once they have kicked into high gear, leaving all those behind who were unprepared for their occurrence.

They are as inevitable as death and taxes but as eclectic and unpredictable as a Dennis Miller rant on current events. Every industry has them but the technology world seems to have them more frequently, with more intensity and with broader impact on all other industries.

So I believe we are in the midst of another inflection point and it’s being accelerated by the advancements in cloud computing.

Will IT Cultural Barriers Prevent Virtual Payoffs?

January 11th, 2010 By Randy Arthur

comments

Share

will-it-cultural-barriers-prevent-virtual-payoffs

barriers-to-cloud-computing

I read a fascinating article today by Lori MacVittie who blogs over at DevCentral. Lori wrote a phenomenal post on the subject of virtual appliances versus specialized hardware entitled “When Did Specialized Hardware Become a Dirty Word?”

This post has crystallized a lot of my thinking around this topic over the past year or so. I encourage you to read it. What I really like about Lori’s observation is that she recognizes the organizational and cultural barriers that will mean that the adoption of virtual appliances in the infrastructure will likely not yield the expected savings or efficiencies that their proponents claim.

Video: Cloud Offerings For The Enterprise

January 4th, 2010 By Randy Arthur

comments

Share

video-cloud-offerings-for-the-enterprise

Any implementation of cloud services for the enterprise must strike a balance between rapidly implementing a solution and a solution of increasing complexity and cost.
I like Sreedhar’s observation that the established enterprise would need to leverage cloud IT services differently than a larger enterprise. I do agree that there is probably a well-defined set of startup services that can shorten the time necessary to both establish an development environment and get useful functionality out of the other end.

I think that the assertion that cloud will result in a reduction of complexity is arguable.

Archive for January, 2010

What’s The Difference Between Security And Trust In The Cloud?

A Video Byte On BPOS

Will IT Cultural Barriers Prevent Virtual Payoffs?

Video: Cloud Offerings For The Enterprise

FOLLOW CSC TRUSTED CLOUD

Search on the Blog:

ARCHIVES

Archives

FEATURED PAPERS