When you get down to brass tacks, the cloud is simply a server somewhere outside the four walls of your enterprise. Whether you share (multi-tenanted) space on the server or have one all to yourself, the same question revolving security still pertain. Is it safe? The answer lies on how well you have prepared and monitor your processes despite where your data sits.
You realize the overarching benefits of the cloud, but you are a bit wary regarding the security of any data stored and transacted in these virtualized environments. But the cost-saving benefits and user preference and resource delegation of the cloud are such that not integrating some processes, applications and data is counterproductive to your overall IT strategy. So you decide that a private cloud is a more secure route that its public counterpart. But are you really any more secure?
The quick answer is no. But not for the reason you might think. A private cloud is infrastructure operated solely for a single organization. The only difference is that your data is segregated from any other organization. And if that brings you any semblance of peace, then it’s a good investment. It all depends on your business need. It offers greater control, but means you shoulder all the overhead, updating, risk management and related costs. And if you factor in the compliance requirements for financial or healthcare related companies, it might be the better option.
There are a few absolutes when it comes to school. First, lunches will always be terrible. Second, your locker will be too small to fit your oversized textbooks. Finally, there’s a high likelihood that some of your student data will be stored in the cloud.
This student data includes demographic information, test results, transcripts, email exchanges, grades, attendance history, contact information and more. It’s a sensitive mix of detail that, if exposed, could prove damaging to the affected students and the educational institution. According to privacyrights.org, more than 1.8 million student records have been breached in the last 18 months. In one frightening incident earlier this year at the University of Tampa, a breach exposed the social security numbers, photo IDs and dates of birth of thousands of students and faculty members.
Hybrid computing typically is combining private and public clouds. We feel that many of our customers still have a traditional environment, and that traditional environment will not go away anytime soon. However, they’re actually looking at combining that traditional environment, the data that’s in that traditional environment and some of the functionality that’s out there, with the public cloud and the private cloud.
The whole concept of hybrid delivery is tying that together. It goes beyond hybrid computing or hybrid cloud. It adds the whole dimension of the traditional environment. And, to our mind, the traditional environment isn’t going to go away anytime soon.
Poor benighted Kodak. It thinks its 1,100 patent, which it has to sell to pay off its creditors, are worth somewhere between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion but was reportedly able to attract initial auction bids of only $500 million from bidders like the rival consortia led by Apple and Google.
It’s altogether a far cry from Nortel’s $4.5 billion experience last year.
The consortia reportedly involve Google-RPX-Samsung-LG-HTC on the one hand and Apple-Microsoft-Intellectual Ventures on the other.
Two-year-old HotLink launched Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter on Tuesday.
It’s supposed to be the simplest product anywhere for deploying, administering and managing hybrid clouds. Otherwise it’s complex, costly and time-consuming.
It works through a plug-in that natively supports Amazon EC2 and CloudStack inside vCenter’s management infrastructure.
The widgetry doesn’t need anything else. It’s supposed to accelerate hybrid cloud deployment from weeks to a few hours.
Cincinnati Bell, the last American company to use the old Bell name, is going to spin off its data center colocation subsidiary CyrusOne and has filed an S-11 with the SEC for the unit to go public.
When it does go public – possibly by the end of the year – it will be structured as a REIT for the tax advantages. It wants to own all its facilities outright.
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) – co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo – due to open in under three months’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written
