Cloud Interoperability: Approaches and Challenges
Numerous governments and enterprises are looking to cloud computing strategies to consolidate their IT infrastructures, cut spending, ensure their IT systems will be scalable and facilitate innovation...
View ArticleCSA Governance, Risk Management & Compliance Stack
In November, 2010, the CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) announced the release of its Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack. The CSA recognized the challenges involved in meeting the...
View ArticleCloud Security Standards
Whether an organization is considering SaaS (software as a service) applications, PaaS (platform as a service) models or IaaS (infrastructure as a service) options, it’s pretty much a given that...
View ArticleOpenShift: Red Hat’s PaaS Offering
OpenShift, Red Hat’s PaaS (platform as a service) was announced in May 2011, during the Red Hat Summit 2011 in Boston. The PaaS environment supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks,...
View ArticleCloudFoundry: The First Open Paas Solution
Launched in April 2011, Cloud Foundry was touted as the first open PaaS solution. It is part of a new generation of application platform, designed specifically for cloud environments and delivered as a...
View ArticleCloud Expo Silicon Valley 2011
The ninth annual Cloud Expo is set to take place November 7-10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA. It is supposed to be a huge enterprise IT event that covers the entire scope of the cloud computing spectrum....
View ArticleSecurity as a Service (SecaaS)
We've gone through many of the varied offerings available in the cloud – from software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and identity as a service...
View ArticleService Oriented Architecture & the Cloud
Take a look at cloud computing services these days and you’ll often find them coupled with the term “service oriented architecture.” While this is a trendy IT buzzword, experts caution that they are...
View ArticleIBM Projects $7 Billion Cloud Revenue
Back in 2011, IBM projected that cloud services would generate $7 billion in revenue for the company by 2015. This statement came during an interview with IBM’s CFO Mark Loughridge. This year, the...
View ArticleCloud Computing Buzzwords
Let’s set some terms straight. Some cloud service providers have been taking advantage of all the hype surrounding cloud computing, growing the industry, but at the same time creating unnecessary...
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