There has been so much published about cloud computing in the last couple of years it would seem difficult to find new things to say about it. However, the model is changing so rapidly there is indeed plenty to say about it, and there will be for years to come. As you will read in “Cloud Computing – How Easy Is It”, the environment is evolving so fast that even porting a single application to the cloud becomes a challenge of keeping up with the software releases.
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There has been so much published about cloud computing in the last couple of years it would seem difficult to find new things to say about it. However, the model is changing so rapidly there is indeed plenty to say about it, and there will...One Side Now: The Need to Adopt a Business Systems Approach to Cloud Security
Joni Mitchell’s beautiful lament from forty-five years ago is timely today as an apt description of the unspoken truth of many enterprise managers who have put their corporate IP and other data “in the cloud.” “I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now. From up...Automating Cloud Security Authorizations
This article describes the challenges and solutions for Security Authorization in a cloud based services environment. We describe Compliance as a Service (CaaS) that supports various service models as well as the deployment models in cloud-based environment. This makes the solution elastic, metered and cost...Cloud Nine, Are we there yet?
In 1961 at the MIT Centennial, John McCarthy opined “if computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility…. the computer utility...Cloud Computing – How Easy is it?
Most articles on cloud computing discuss security, policies, economies of scale, or other high level topics. For a more pragmatic approach, we decided to simply port an existing application to the cloud and report on what the experience taught us. Selecting the Application Finding an...Cloudonomics: A Rigorous Approach to Cloud Benefit Quantification
Cloud computing and cloud services consistently place at the top of surveys ranking IT trends and CIO interests. This is largely due to the position of the cloud at the nexus of macro trends such as social media, the Internet, Web 2.0, and mobility and...
