Jian Zhen

At RSA 2009 there were a ton of conversations spun up around the topic of security and compliance in the cloud. First, there were ~20 sessions on cloud security and compliance. I was on one of the panels that focused on cloud security and whether the cloud is secure enough for th... (more)

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 the... (more)

Jian Zhen's Blog 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 publ... (more)

Jian Zhen's "Cloud Feed" Blog 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... (more)