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Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: How To Secure Your Cloud Hosting? Part III Authentication (Contd.,) For signing in to the cloud account AWS goes with mail id and password as the usual credentials. Rackspace goes with user id and password. AWS introduced Multi Factor Authentication long time back. Multi Factor Authentication involves an authentication device. Gemalto provides the compatible device. (See image of Gemalto device) When we sign in to our AWS Portal or AWS Console, access is granted when we give the authentication credentials of email id and password. When we opt in for AWS MFA (Amazon Web Service
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing Before getting into the nitty gritty of what we did in our projects for hardening the cloud servers hosted by us, we would like to emphasize the following, so that these can be firmly embedded in the mind set of readers. First, the way cloud computing is attracting attention is mind boggling. Enterprises have started adopting to cloud concept where in they go for sharing public infrastructure. Having started this trend, it will go without any stopping in future. Traditional Security measures practiced in-house are not enough in the new trend. Second, the inherent nature
Reducing Your Amazon EC2 Cloud Charges The Biggest difference between standard web hosting and cloud-based hosting can be seen when you get the monthly bill. A standard web host, like GoDaddy, will charge you a flat monthly fee and give you access to a single, fixed server. Whereas a cloud-based host, like Amazon EC2 will charge you at a granular level for each compute asset you use, whether it’s bandwidth, CPU or storage. This can lead to a confusing monthly bill (ever tried to use Amazon’s “simple” cost calculator?), but also offers the opportunities to save money by being more astute with your resource
Free Registration Cloud Best Practices: Implementing for IaaS Tools, Components, & How to Put Them Together Date: January 26, 2011 Time: 02:00 pm (UTC+1) Dr. Malcolm Herbert — Director, Strategy & Solutions, Red Hat Lee Denison — Senior Architect, Red Hat In this session, Malcolm Herbert and Lee Denison, senior architect at Red Hat, will discuss key Red Hat technologies, methodologies, and ideas for implementing an open standards, open source IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) environment. The Red Hat Virtual Experience is a global online forum of Red Hat experts, partners, customers, and the open source community. The event on January 26, 2010
Free CloudTweaks Resources Cloud Adoption WhitePaper Make no mistake; the cloud is a phenomenon that will change IT forever. But the cloud can be revolutionary without being problematic only if cloud resources are incorporated into IT infrastructure in a way that allows them to be managed and controlled. To gain the obvious benefits offered by the cloud, organizations should have a clearly defined strategy for using and managing the cloud. This white paper analyzes two topics crucial to successful cloud exploitation: the stages of cloud adoption; and how to automate, manage, and monitor cloud resources to make the introduction of
Google Wins Court Ruling Against Microsoft In Cloud Computing Contract By Sourya Biswas Microsoft and Google have never been the best of friends, and this mutual dislike has extended to their ventures in the cloud computing space as well. Both these technology behemoths fully realize the immense potential of cloud computing and have been intensely competitive in trying to get one up on the other, with Google’s Google Apps and Microsoft’s Azure being two of the most prominent cloud computing platforms out there. This competition for the cloud computing market saw an outlet in a decision handed down this week
Fighting Above Your Weight Class Through Cloud Computing By Sourya Biswas of CloudTweaks Tuesday, December, 21th, 2010 – Imagine the following scenario. You, weighing a mere 150 pounds and an armchair fighter, are suddenly challenged to a boxing match with a 250 pound professional boxer with ham- sized fists. Under normal circumstances, you wouldn’t consider even stepping into the ring. However, you have a trump card – a magic glove that multiplies the force of your punch tenfold. Emboldened by this amazing contraption, you confidently step into the ring, confident in the belief that you stand more than a fair
