Big 4 Auditing Firm Ernst & Young Joins Cloud Security Alliance Cloud computing’s legitimacy as a mainstream business option just received a shot in the arm with Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four of auditing, joining the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit organization formed “to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing and provide education on the uses of cloud computing in connection with all other forms of computing.” Ernst & Young, popularly known as E&Y, has an Information Technology Risk and Assurance practice that assists organizations in enhancing their information

New Features Improve Usability, Reduce IT Management Costs, and Enable Deployment of Hybrid Clouds in Under Ten Minutes SEATTLE, WA–(February 14, 2011) – Skytap Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, is furthering its leadership in cloud automation with a set of usability and security features focused on self-service set-up and management of hybrid clouds. Using the new features, enterprises and software vendors can create and deploy hybrid clouds in under ten minutes. New features include: Self-service hybrid clouds with secure networking VPN-aware Skytap templates, configurations and snapshots Dynamic switching of network connections These new capabilities come on
OpenGamma Combines Open Source and Cloud Computing in Innovative Platform OpenGamma is a good example how Cloud Computing changed the way entrepreneurs and software vendors are looking for new software and technology solutions. Kirk Wylie, Elaine McLeod and Jim Moores founded OpenGamma in 2009 and rumors were a new London-based technology start-up is entering financial services market. Traditionally, London hosts many financial companies and it was not quite unexpected that a newcompany introduced its services in a lucrative market such as financial industry. The company, however, offered a different approach in a historically conservative industry field whose members acknowledged that
Illustration By David Fletcher Of CloudTweaks IT Transformation Modern manufacturing is a direct consequence of a forced transformation—forced by changing economics and by massive product and supply chain complexity. The same sort of transformation is taking place today in enterprise IT. Manufacturing evolved from manual to automated, ad hoc to repeatable. From art to science. Manufacturing has been forced to “industrialize.” Aiding in the effort are product lifecycle and supply chain management tools for streamlining manufacturing process and linking together previously isolated stages in the value chain. Read More
Is A Gigabit Per Second Too Much? Cloud Computing may some day turn computing resources into a utility. Certainly that’s the direction in which things are headed. The first step on this path is well underway, with Internet service becoming a presumed utility by citizens and governments worldwide. Politicians the world over are outdoing each other promising that their country will be the world leader when it comes to Internet access and speed. Admirable goals, to be sure. But arguments about the need for speed are accelerating too quickly along the Information Superhighway. It’s time to step back and ask,
25 Cloud Storage and Sharing Services Online (Updated list from our previous post…) Ubuntu One Is your personal cloud. But it’s not just about syncing files — whether you need to access your contacts, notes or bookmarks from any computer or the web, enjoy your favorite music from a cloud integrated store or stream your entire collection to iPhone and Android mobile phones. ibackup IBackup guarantees superior performance, security and ease-of-use for all of its desktop applications, compared to other online storage providers. Extensive enterprise-class feature set including Snapshots, which enable you to view older copies of data, Network Drive










