Enterprise are starting to adopt cloud computing. The ones that have web centric business models like media companies are either already doing it or are moving towards it rapidly. Financial services companies are moving slower, as compliance/API security issues have to be carefully looked at.
Michael Healey recently wrote “8 questions to ask before going live [...]
Eric Ogren wrote this week on how to address enterprise cloud/SaaS data security issues. He writes that it’s particularly difficult “to secure the new boundaries between the enterprise, the cloud service and the end user while managing dependencies on off-premise infrastructure and privileged operators.” He notes there will be an estimated 75% of [...]
The move by enterprises to store data in the cloud is logical… but this won’t happen over night. Moving crucial data to the cloud as the sole archive will most likely be one of the last business operations to move entirely to the could. Why? Trust. Spoken before on enterprise trust issues with the cloud, [...]
Dion Hinchcliffe wrote recently on the ways in which cloud computing will change business. Though he recognizes the challenges to adoption in terms of trust around security and vendor lock-in, there’s clear potential in the enterprise – driving new revenue streams, outsourcing IT services, and the reconciliation of traditional SOA with the cloud and other [...]
TechRepublic wrote a piece on the changing role of the CIO in today’s economic and cloud computing landscape. There’s no question that the role of the CIO changes when a company moves to the cloud, I’d hardly say the role has become undeserving of the C-level. Patrick Gray writes that IT will likely split into [...]
Ariel Silverstone wrote last week on the dangers and opportunity of cloud security ahead. Agree with his take that time to market is one of the biggest drivers for cloud computing. Going from months to weeks in set-up time increases productivity and potential revenue. Silverstone also notes that standards are important – the CSA [...]
Derrick Harris’s post on cloud adoption is right on. Visibility and Security are issues. Many customers are doing POC, some are doing mission critical applications. The benefits of reduced costs and time to market/revenue are too compelling to ignore.
Robert Westervelt’s post on cloud security caught my eye – he talks about business execs putting the pressure on IT departments to “open the floodgates to the latest Web-based platforms, relaxing Web security policy.” Does this mean it’ll open the security floodgates in a dangerous way?
Yes, security is a concern when you move to the [...]
Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told [...]
Read a piece from Federal Computer Week about the U.S. government seriously considering cloud computing: the White House is encouraging the launch of pilot programs to test cloud computing for federal agencies. Very cool.
As they work through security, compliance type issues, this will make a GREAT success story – cloud computing is good enough to [...]
