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Security and Compliance in the Age of Clouds

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:30:00 EDT

What enterprises are looking for, regardless of in the cloud or on-premise, are control and transparency on their data, applications and identities. Enterprise customers always need to make sure they are compliant with whatever regulations/mandates they are responsible for.

Five Key Challenges of Enterprise Cloud Computing

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

In the past month or so I have talked to a lot of people in the cloud computing and virtualization space. Many of these folks are working at/on startups that solves one of the many challenges for Enterprise cloud computing. What are these challenges? I have tried to summarize them here (in no particular order).

Cloud Computing: What Are Private Clouds?

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

The world of clouds these days is full of definitions and counter-definitions. There are many posts that try to define the concept of cloud computing; many that try to distinguish utility computing, grid computing and cloud computing; many that try to define public vs private clouds; and many that dismisses the notion of private clouds.

Cloud Computing: The Rise of Cloud Platforms and Why the OS Doesn’t Matter

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is one of the buzzwords that’s mentioned often in the cloud computing space. In short, PaaS is a platform for delivering applications, similar to a pre-built system with hardware, OS and application stack all built in. In the PaaS case, this system is hosted. All you have to do is “upload” the application code and it should take care of the executing and scaling of it.