Video: 7 Deadly Sins of Cloud Security In this short video, experts from HP discuss the latest cloud security threats and explain measures to help overcome them. Hear about the seven deadly sins of cloud security and learn how to avoid becoming a victim of poor security in your cloud environment. Cloud Computing: It’s all about the Service Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. This is a task that’s best achieved by striking a balance among IT domains, spanning traditional internal
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by Balaji on June 11, 2012
in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization, VPN
Private Cloud Considerations The private cloud market is getting hot as plenty of advantages to enterprises in industries with higher-level security and compliance requirements are being offered. While the attractions are obvious, it must be noted that private cloud implementations can significantly differ from those of public clouds. If you are ready for the jump to private clouds, virtual private clouds (VPCs) or managed public clouds, you should make sure you understand the following: Workload and performance What are your performance and workload requirements? Can your applications run on virtual servers that are physically shared among multiple applications? If the
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Unified Storage for the Cloud Means Higher-Level Interfaces In common use, the term “unified storage” means providing block-level and file-level access to the same storage system with a single management and control interface. Traditionally, block-level access is via fiber channel or iSCSI, and file-level access is via NFS or CIFS protocol. Recently, storage vendors are also adding _object_-level storage where the objects are entities with metadata like type, access control policies. Objects are read and written by applications using REST HTTP or SOAP and used directly at the application level. The most popular API is Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service). With the higher-abstraction level of objects, the underlying implementation (e.g.,
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by Balaji on May 30, 2012
in Accounting, Apps, Backups, Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Microsoft, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
10 Things To Look For In Your Cloud Service Provider The cloud computing market is exploding with a large number of new entrants. If you are shopping around for a cloud service provider (CSP), here are ten things you should keep in mind. 1. Technical Expertise A cloud computing service is not a commodity: it is not as simple as providing you with a computer in a server farm. It requires a lot of technical expertise to set up the right system that guarantees security for your data and lets you run your business without interruption. Thus, the first thing you
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by Jeff Norman on May 25, 2012
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, Host, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Trends
Rumors in Cloud: What a Tangled Web We’ve Woven As our community has witnessed cloud’s rise to headliner, we have also failed to dispel certain rumors that could hinder its acceptance. Incorrect information merely hampers the progress cloud computing could make as the IT phenomenon it is. A couple ideas in particular stand out to me right now, hackneyed and trotted out too often. The first misconception: “private cloud is too pricey for rookies.” The rhetoric of public versus private colors many sectors of society: education, class, government, and onward. It holds that “public” connotes less of something provided for
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by cloudtweaks on May 24, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Performance, Security, Storage, Technology, Tools
Preventing A Cloud Outage What are the most common cloud outages and how to prevent them? A service disruption is a technical perfect storm. Initial mistakes made by engineers can cause the appearance of several other bugs and glitches. The fact with the cloud is that “a host can and will fail” says Evan Cooke, Twilio’s co-founder and chief technology officer. Cooke learned that the most important premise when it comes to the cloud is assuming that the network will have glitches. This happened when Twilio, a company that helps developers integrates communications into their Web applications and which uses
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by Balaji on May 24, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, IT, Performance, Storage, Technology, Web Hosting
Disaster Management Checklist For Cloud Computing Customers Last week I covered some aspects of disaster management on the cloud. I will continue where I left off and cover more details on the disaster planning part. Here is a checklist of things you must have for disaster planning and recovery. What are the emergency contact number and email addresse(s) of the cloud service provider (CSP)? Is there a backup account with another CSP? How soon can the backups be activated to restore services? Are the data and applications in the backup regularly updated? What is the minimum working subset that should
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by sourya on May 23, 2012
in Backups, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Host, Performance, Storage, Technology, Trends
“Private cloud is like a summer home, while the public cloud is a hotel.” – Part 1 This is something I said during a recent Twitter chat on 12 April focusing on the interactions between the public and private clouds, and how converged clouds may be the solution to several associated problems (the conversations are viewable on Twitter under the #convcloud hashtag and the resultant article is: “Waiting for cloud standards is like Waiting for Godot” ). In this article, I will explain why I said what I said. Let’s compare a summer home and a hotel on different parameters.
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