There is a lot of talk about interoperability between cloud providers. Let me explain the use case. Enterprise A uses a cloud and wants to make sure that they can ’switch’ to another cloud provider. The reasons for switching can be many – costs, better technology fit with new provider etc.
A couple of important considerations [...]
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 [...]
EMC’s RSA Security division released a two studies. Few comments:
- 50% of all folks interviewed (enterprises with more than $1B in revenue) are doing cloud computing
- 66% of those do not have a security strategy
- RSA has put together a “Security for Business Innovation” council comprised of 10 security executives chosen by RSA.
Kudos to RSA [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Early last month I took part in a cloud panel at the SIIA NetGain Conference in San Francisco. I posted my thoughts here right after, and the video is now up on the NetGain site. Some interesting presentations from a couple of other information cloud companies… the video also gives some background on how Sonoa’s [...]
Have been hearing quite a bit about cloud portability recently. This also came up a recent panel at the SIIA NetGain conference. Here is my take:
- Customers think of information technology as a means to an end.
- When they are making IT related decisions (technology and vendor) they are generally making them for the long [...]
Much discussion on blogshere on the public vs. private cloud debate. Good to see the discussion, but as Peter Galvin says – “opinions are inside the bldg, facts are outside.” So as always lets discuss this from a customer point of view.
Let me start by saying every customer that I have talked to in the [...]
