It isn’t so much that cloud computing solutions are more vulnerable than traditional solutions; rather, cloud vulnerabilities take a much different form (and can occur on a much wider scale) than traditional security vulnerabilities.
Up to this point, most of the major issues with cloud providers have had more to do with outages rather than data breaches. That doesn’t mean there are no risks in the cloud, but that the form of cloud attacks may be different than traditional attacks.
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SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Moving Company for the Cloud
“Racemi is like a moving company – once someone has decided they are going to a private cloud, or a public cloud, we’re the company they call,” stated Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Neelie Kroes, VP of European Commission, on Open Source Cloud & OpenNebula
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, presented today at the Open Source Conference 2012 the three ways the European Union (EU) is supporting Open ICT systems, namely open-source, open-procurement, and open-data. Mrs. Kroes outlines the huge benefits of open-source and open-standards, the several hundred-million-euro benefits per year of Open ICT systems for the public sector alone, and how the EU is using open source solutions itself.
VCE Accelerates Private Cloud Deployments from Months to Weeks
One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the ‘keeping the lights on’ approach of IT. Ultimately this lacks the economic benefit that makes cloud computing such an intriguing concept. Hence what we and our customers quickly realized is that a private cloud’s success ultimately depends on the stability, reliability, scalability and performance of its infrastructure. By going the Vblock route our customers immediately attain that stability, reliability, scalability and performance and consequently accelerate their private cloud initiatives.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Data Connectivity in the Cloud
“DataDirect is focused solely on data connectivity. We will be launching the DataDirect cloud – a one-stop shop for your data connectivity needs,” noted Jesse Davis, Director, DataDirect Research & Development at Progress Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
REACT to the Cloud: A Tale of Horror and Unified Security
Introducing a new security paradigm that leverages the cooperative functionality of various security tools. However, the key is still monitoring the results in real time; and the best case scenario (most efficient/effective means) for most companies to achieve this is via the cloud.
Today’s is a cautionary tale. One that you’ve probably heard before, but I promise a new spin on making sure it won’t happen again.
It’s a true story. It recently happened to a colleague’s friend’s business. But it is not an isolated incident. Because the information is sensitive and the wounds still raw, I have changed the names to protect the innocent and the not-so-innocent.
It was a dark and stormy night…
Dan is the CEO and CTO of a privately-owned business that develops software tools to manage lease lifecycles and other financial information. His primary customer is commercial real estate agencies across the country. For the past 12 years, it has been highly successful despite some of the economic battering the housing market took over the past several years. The company clears somewhere in the neighborhood of 30-50 million per year. He employs about 150 people. And it is the story of one of those employees where the story takes a dark turn.
Big Switch Pries Open Software Defined Networking
There’s a new wannabe disruptive initiative abroad in networking land that’s
promising to run roughshod over laggards and standoffish old stalwarts like
Cisco that may find it threatening.
The push is gathering behind a deceptively named two-year-old start-up
called Big Switch Networks and its notion of software-defined networking
(SDN).
Weather Channel Forecasts Heavier Reliance on Cloud Computing
The Weather Channel weathered its own storm of sorts when it experienced its highest traffic ever over the course of Hurricane Sandy.
The media company typically supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a month. During Sandy, that figure jumped to 450 million, nearly double its previous high for Web traffic.
Fortunately, The Weather Channel was prepared for the traffic surge, according to an article on NetworkWorld.com.
The company’s IT team had recently architected its real-time radar mapping. On typical days, the mapping system runs on about 20 instances, but during Sandy it scaled up to run on 175 nodes.
It’s a classic use-case for the cloud: Variable and unpredictable peak demand for Web services is outsourced to a public cloud provider. It would have required a major investment to spin up a system across the company’s on-premise and colocation environments to support the traffic load it experienced when Sandy ripped up the Eastern Seaboard, and then it would have likely gone mostly unused during other times. The alternative would have been not to have the compute horsepower to serve all the visitors to The Weather Channel’s platforms.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: One-Stop Shop for Cloud Computing
“We are a SaaS tool that helps engineers, developers, IT operators, etc., manage and monitor the performance of the production, web, mobile, and cloud applications,” noted Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Connecting Clouds as Easy as 1-2-3
Hybrid cloud models continue to outpace pure-public (and pure-private) models for most organizations. There’s value in being able to leverage the cloud for a variety of reasons from periodic, expanding compute resources to dev and test environments. Whatever the reason, hybrid models are here to stay.
One of the difficulties experienced in executing on such models, however, is connecting them to the corporate cloud or data center. Sure, the model is simple: simply deploy resources in the public cloud and leverage them as expandable compute from the private cloud/data center. But to do that requires a way to leverage them. You need to connect them together in such a way as to make those externally deployed resources appear to be part of the data center.
That’s where cloud bridges come in handy. Cloud bridges, as we’ve previously defined, integrate environments at the network layer – extending the operational domain into remote environments such as public cloud. Bridges are the «connective tissue» that is the basis for a hybrid cloud.