With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and st...
Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Public Clouds are inherently insecure, and that the only way to meet your organization’s stringent security requirements in the Cloud is to implement your own Private Cloud. Conventional wisdom, you say? Unfortunately, there is precious l...
"The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement -...
Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, and improving the bottom line. IT init...
Is cloud a positive or negative when it comes to cyber security? And what of hybrid models that combine public and private cloud activities, how is security impacted in those cases?
For some, any move to the cloud -- at least the public cloud -- means a higher risk for security.
For ...
"The cloud has the capacity to make lives easier for many of us, including the smallest of businesses. But to achieve that requires us to take many different policy areas and really test them to make sure they are as cloud-compatible as they can be." Writing in her official capacity as...
Security specialists are fond of using expressions like “robust protection” and “multi-layered defenses” when it comes to setting out their stall and telling us exactly how they are able to protect our data and applications. Looking closer at enterprise security, we see that lower down...
With the New Year having rolled in, you’ve probably had your fill of “This is the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)” predictions. After all, for how many years now have we heard, “This is the year for cloud computing?”
While there’s no doubt that the wave of cloud comp...
Over the past year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and witnessed multiple vulnerabilities exploited at the aging technology’s expense. For example, there was the incident at Yale University in which the names and Social Security numbers of approximate...
There are some technological concepts that simply go better together. Consider the cloud and information explosion; the cloud offers the potential for unlimited storage for a torrent of ever-increasing data. Another example is virtualization and IT agility; strategic virtualization imp...
“Big data” analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012. The predictions for the coming year also include the growing impact of social networking platforms on enterprise collaboration strategies, convergence of se...
Here are my thoughts on what we can expect in the cloud space in 2012.
Cloud data will become more insightful for business as a whole
With companies sitting on zetabytes of data, many organizations are in possession of tremendously powerful knowledge and insight about their employee...
CloudPassage delivers a server security platform that's been “purpose-built for the cloud,” according to the company. I spoke at Cloud Expo with Joerg Rathenberg, the company's VP of Marketing. Joerg was with IBM early in his career, “helping to build a new IBM in Eastern Europe as the...
In just the past year, the number of attacks are up, the costs associated with them are higher and more visible, and the risks of not securing systems and processes are therefore much greater. Some people have even called the rate of attacks a pandemic.
The path to reducing these risk...
Cloud computing provides organizations with an alternative way of obtaining IT services and offers many benefits including increased flexibility and cost reduction. However, many organizations are reluctant to adopt the cloud because of concerns over information security and a loss of ...
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations around the world use technology. Despite the fact that many refer to 2011 as the Year of the Data Breach, and cloud computing has earned a reputation of being inherently insecure, that stigma is simply just not true. Most cloud p...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,000 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led...
As we head into Thanksgiving Weekend, we bring a brief round-up of some of the many follow-up comments we have been receiving since November's 9th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Thanks for your thanks, and see you on the other side...when the countdown steadily begins to New York's meg...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - in full swing at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what's being said about the future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent...
In Part 1 we discussed risk, security and cloud computing at a high level. Having been a part of design teams as a contributor as well as project manager to include security and assessment team management over the last few years, I still find the same security concerns and issues direc...
This article will explain how online data backup and recovery services help keep businesses running even during such extreme weather conditions by providing IT and other employees with secure, controlled access to both server and desktop backup data when weather conditions have made ge...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) now in its final day, Thursday November 10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, here's who is round off the four-day event in our keynote hall this morning...none other than the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office, Jill T. Sing...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) beginning its final two days at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
The doors open today on 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - the biggest event in the world-beating Cloud Expo series to date, with more members of the cloud computing ecosystem gathered than anyone has ever seen before in one place, to play catch-up with Internet technology's ...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We have t...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
For many, the word “disaster” conjures up images of gale-force winds ripping rooftops off buildings or post-tremblor streets littered with concrete and rebar. IT, however, knows that the disasters most likely to interrupt a company’s ability to operate are not at the hand of Mother Nat...
Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and its loss can be a serious blow to the business. If your systems and data are not adequately protected and supported by a well-tested disaster recovery plan, chances are you are placing your organization at risk. As more and more data is st...
In recent years, enterprises and government organizations have started shifting their IT infrastructures to a cloud computing and software-as-a-service model in an effort to lower costs and drive operational efficiencies. With the shift toward less IT infrastructure management, cloud s...
It is a fact of IT that different businesses have different technical requirements in terms of security, processing, performance, and even storage. In many organizations, particularly those that transport sensitive personal or financial information, end-to-end encryption is a must. At ...
Many IT organizations assume that security risks increase with a shift to cloud computing. The reality, however, is not so clear-cut. In fact, many of these same organizations will be surprised to learn that adopting cloud operating models with appropriate governance and security contr...
Security remains the number one obstacle to adoption of cloud computing for businesses and federal agencies. Regardless of the deployment model selected--private, public, community, or hybrid—conquering security concerns is required for cloud computing to achieve its full potential as...
As enterprise networking technology has evolved, so too has enterprise security. What began simply as setting up a perimeter around the network via fairly basic security tools like firewalls and email gateways, has evolved into adding an array of virtual private networks (VPNs), virtua...
Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical o...
The markets may be melting, but Cloud Computing continues to attract headlines, VC dollars, M&A activity, and more. So let's take a quick look at what's being said, written, and done about the Cloud...now that we have reached Fall 2011.
An alphabetical selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age!
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
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With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and st...
Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Public Clouds are inherently insecure, and that the only way to meet your organization’s stringent security requirements in the Cloud is to implement your own Private Cloud. Conventional wisdom, you say? Unfortunately, there is precious l...
"The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement -...
Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, and improving the bottom line. IT init...
Is cloud a positive or negative when it comes to cyber security? And what of hybrid models that combine public and private cloud activities, how is security impacted in those cases?
For some, any move to the cloud -- at least the public cloud -- means a higher risk for security.
For ...
"The cloud has the capacity to make lives easier for many of us, including the smallest of businesses. But to achieve that requires us to take many different policy areas and really test them to make sure they are as cloud-compatible as they can be." Writing in her official capacity as...
Security specialists are fond of using expressions like “robust protection” and “multi-layered defenses” when it comes to setting out their stall and telling us exactly how they are able to protect our data and applications. Looking closer at enterprise security, we see that lower down...
With the New Year having rolled in, you’ve probably had your fill of “This is the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)” predictions. After all, for how many years now have we heard, “This is the year for cloud computing?”
While there’s no doubt that the wave of cloud comp...
Over the past year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and witnessed multiple vulnerabilities exploited at the aging technology’s expense. For example, there was the incident at Yale University in which the names and Social Security numbers of approximate...
There are some technological concepts that simply go better together. Consider the cloud and information explosion; the cloud offers the potential for unlimited storage for a torrent of ever-increasing data. Another example is virtualization and IT agility; strategic virtualization imp...
“Big data” analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012. The predictions for the coming year also include the growing impact of social networking platforms on enterprise collaboration strategies, convergence of se...
Here are my thoughts on what we can expect in the cloud space in 2012.
Cloud data will become more insightful for business as a whole
With companies sitting on zetabytes of data, many organizations are in possession of tremendously powerful knowledge and insight about their employee...
CloudPassage delivers a server security platform that's been “purpose-built for the cloud,” according to the company. I spoke at Cloud Expo with Joerg Rathenberg, the company's VP of Marketing. Joerg was with IBM early in his career, “helping to build a new IBM in Eastern Europe as the...
In just the past year, the number of attacks are up, the costs associated with them are higher and more visible, and the risks of not securing systems and processes are therefore much greater. Some people have even called the rate of attacks a pandemic.
The path to reducing these risk...
Cloud computing provides organizations with an alternative way of obtaining IT services and offers many benefits including increased flexibility and cost reduction. However, many organizations are reluctant to adopt the cloud because of concerns over information security and a loss of ...
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations around the world use technology. Despite the fact that many refer to 2011 as the Year of the Data Breach, and cloud computing has earned a reputation of being inherently insecure, that stigma is simply just not true. Most cloud p...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
9th International Cloud Expo, held on November 7 - 10, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA, attracted more than 120 sponsors and exhibitors with over 7,000 registered delegates and four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led...
As we head into Thanksgiving Weekend, we bring a brief round-up of some of the many follow-up comments we have been receiving since November's 9th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Thanks for your thanks, and see you on the other side...when the countdown steadily begins to New York's meg...
With 9th Cloud Expo at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center now finished, Cloud Computing Journal asked a variety of industry stakeholders what their Top Three takeaways were from the event, now that the many thousands of delegates are back at their desks and their companies,...
With 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - in full swing at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California, what's being said about the future landscape of cloud computing? In this round-up we asked a variety of members of the cloud computing ecosystem, from CIOs to independent...
In Part 1 we discussed risk, security and cloud computing at a high level. Having been a part of design teams as a contributor as well as project manager to include security and assessment team management over the last few years, I still find the same security concerns and issues direc...
This article will explain how online data backup and recovery services help keep businesses running even during such extreme weather conditions by providing IT and other employees with secure, controlled access to both server and desktop backup data when weather conditions have made ge...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) now in its final day, Thursday November 10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, here's who is round off the four-day event in our keynote hall this morning...none other than the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office, Jill T. Sing...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) beginning its final two days at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
The doors open today on 9th Cloud Expo - Cloud Expo Silicon Valley - the biggest event in the world-beating Cloud Expo series to date, with more members of the cloud computing ecosystem gathered than anyone has ever seen before in one place, to play catch-up with Internet technology's ...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We have t...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We hav...
For many, the word “disaster” conjures up images of gale-force winds ripping rooftops off buildings or post-tremblor streets littered with concrete and rebar. IT, however, knows that the disasters most likely to interrupt a company’s ability to operate are not at the hand of Mother Nat...
Data is the lifeblood of any organization, and its loss can be a serious blow to the business. If your systems and data are not adequately protected and supported by a well-tested disaster recovery plan, chances are you are placing your organization at risk. As more and more data is st...
In recent years, enterprises and government organizations have started shifting their IT infrastructures to a cloud computing and software-as-a-service model in an effort to lower costs and drive operational efficiencies. With the shift toward less IT infrastructure management, cloud s...
It is a fact of IT that different businesses have different technical requirements in terms of security, processing, performance, and even storage. In many organizations, particularly those that transport sensitive personal or financial information, end-to-end encryption is a must. At ...
Many IT organizations assume that security risks increase with a shift to cloud computing. The reality, however, is not so clear-cut. In fact, many of these same organizations will be surprised to learn that adopting cloud operating models with appropriate governance and security contr...
Security remains the number one obstacle to adoption of cloud computing for businesses and federal agencies. Regardless of the deployment model selected--private, public, community, or hybrid—conquering security concerns is required for cloud computing to achieve its full potential as...
As enterprise networking technology has evolved, so too has enterprise security. What began simply as setting up a perimeter around the network via fairly basic security tools like firewalls and email gateways, has evolved into adding an array of virtual private networks (VPNs), virtua...
Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical o...
An alphabetical selection of some of the many themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) - being held November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA. The markets may still be melting, but Cloud Expo is definitely coming of age! 
