Restaurants, food service orgs feel the sting of security breaches via POS integration..ask Raleys, Schnucks, Subway, Zaxbys aned many others. Affordable real time monitoring must become a key priority.
I love sushi. I love big fat burritos. I love tikka masala. So now that my taste buds are salivating, what do my epicurean preferences have to do with cloud security? They all come from restaurants I frequent, and nine time out of 10 I pay for these delights with my credit card. I never thought twice about it, until I read Tracy Kitten’s article for BankInfoSecurity here: It details how many restaurants are falling victim to attacks that put their customer’s credit card information at risk.
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VMware Hybrid Cloud: Accelerate Your Time to Value
Hybrid cloud computing can maximize the value and balance the use of internal assets and external services (e.g., deploying services internally that could also be deployed to public cloud services when the internal capacity is available) while enabling better scalability. Businesses are looking for a more flexible IT framework that can adapt to today’s rapidly changing and global environment. Business teams striving to move quickly into new markets – and launch new products and services – are demanding more from IT organizations that have traditionally focused on avoiding downtime, ensuring security and compliance, and holding down costs. The need for faster, more cost-effective access to IT resources has created a healthy tension between business teams and IT, driving both to look for new and better solutions.
Step-by-Step: Protect Private Clouds with Orchestrated Fail Over
WOW! Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (HRM) extends site-to-site protection to entire Private Clouds by leveraging the Hyper-V Replica asynchronous VM replication capabilities in Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 and our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 enterprise-grade bare-metal hypervisors. In this article, I’ll provide an introduction to Hyper-V Recovery Manager and a Guided Hands-On Lab at the end of this article that allows you to step through the process of protecting your Private Clouds with a Recovery Plan.
The Difference Between Identity Management & Access Management
One of the biggest misconceptions in cloud security is the perception that identity management (IDaaS) and access management (SSO) are the same thing.
They’re not.
And it took a viewing of the famous Star Trek episode called Mirror Mirror for me to best illustrate and articulate the difference between the creation and management of a user account and credentialed rights and the funneled applications that entity is allowed to see. For those unfamiliar with the episode, it’s the one where Kirk is transported into an alternate universe and meets evil Spock (the one with the beard)…but more about that soon.
Simply, IDaaS is the administrative function that creates and maintains a user’s network identity. It segments their privileges by roles and rules. This is called provisioning. Your starship just hired a new lieutenant to communicate with new life and new civilizations as you boldly go places—in this world we call it inside sales, but you get the idea. In the organizational hierarchy, this officer needs access to certain functions and applications-but not others. So when her “enterprise” identity is created, she is assigned certain access rights. She needs to see the languages database, but not the weapons console.
The Difference Between Identity Management & Access Management
One of the biggest misconceptions in cloud security is the perception that identity management (IDaaS) and access management (SSO) are the same thing.
They’re not.
And it took a viewing of the famous Star Trek episode called Mirror Mirror for me to best illustrate and articulate the difference between the creation and management of a user account and credentialed rights and the funneled applications that entity is allowed to see. For those unfamiliar with the episode, it’s the one where Kirk is transported into an alternate universe and meets evil Spock (the one with the beard)…but more about that soon.
Simply, IDaaS is the administrative function that creates and maintains a user’s network identity. It segments their privileges by roles and rules. This is called provisioning. Your starship just hired a new lieutenant to communicate with new life and new civilizations as you boldly go places—in this world we call it inside sales, but you get the idea. In the organizational hierarchy, this officer needs access to certain functions and applications-but not others. So when her “enterprise” identity is created, she is assigned certain access rights. She needs to see the languages database, but not the weapons console.
From Legacy to Big Fast Data Cloud Application
VMware describes the model effectively via a few blogs, and for our Enterprise Cloud Computing series we will also look at these kinds of important vendors, who are pretty much the champion of the internal virtualization market / Private Cloud.
With Paul Maritz leading their Pivotal Initiative to pursue what we described as the Private PaaS segment, it’s clear this is where the principle mind share for Enterprise Cloud is to be fought for and we can expect to see VMware continue a dominant role.
In a nutshell the primary itch these new technologies are scratching is legacy modernization, referring to how old technology systems like mainframes are upgraded for today’s IT. In some cases these go back many tens of years.
From Legacy to Big Fast Data Cloud Application
VMware describes the model effectively via a few blogs, and for our Enterprise Cloud Computing series we will also look at these kinds of important vendors, who are pretty much the champion of the internal virtualization market / Private Cloud.
With Paul Maritz leading their Pivotal Initiative to pursue what we described as the Private PaaS segment, it’s clear this is where the principle mind share for Enterprise Cloud is to be fought for and we can expect to see VMware continue a dominant role.
In a nutshell the primary itch these new technologies are scratching is legacy modernization, referring to how old technology systems like mainframes are upgraded for today’s IT. In some cases these go back many tens of years.
Rackspace Adds Network Training to Open Cloud Academy
Rackspace continues to expand its educational initiatives around the open cloud. This week, it launches a new network operations class as a part of the curriculum at the Open Cloud Academy, a key part of the company’s efforts to train the next generation of IT professionals for the cloud.
The class is an eight-week training program that grants certifications for network administrators, network operators and network engineers. It’s the newest addition to the lineup of professional training options available at the Open Cloud Academy, which also offers instruction in Linux system administration, software development and cyber security, according to an article on TheVarGuy.com.
The new network operations class reflects growing interest within the channel as a whole in tighter network security and enhanced network efficiency around cloud computing. It’s also evidence of Rackspace’s interest in creating a well-rounded workforce of programmers, administrators and technicians who can build and maintain the virtual servers and cloud computing infrastructure that constitute the bread and butter of Rackspace’s business.
Rackspace Study Finds the Future of the Cloud is Hybrid
A new study commissioned by Cloud Expo Silicon Valley 2013 Platinum Plus sponsor Rackspace Hosting suggests that while the public cloud remains important to IT decision-makers at UK and US enterprises involved in the research, the limitations of using this type of platform as a one-size-fits-all solution are becoming more apparent.
A New and Innovative Computing Platform: the ARM Server
A new and innovative computing platform has arrived – the ARM Server, often referred to as a «Microserver».