At the RSA conference this week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) held a half-day summit which served as the venue for the global introduction of several research projects, including research on governance, cloud security reference architectures and cloud-specific computer security incident response teams. The emphasis of the conference on cloud computing security indicates the importance…
U.S. President Obama’s proposed 2012 Federal budget included proposals to improve the inefficiencies in government data centers. The Obama administration asserted that cloud computing and data center consolidation will play a significant role in lowering IT costs. The administration plans to reduce the number of data centers by 40 percent by 2015 and move to…
It is important for businesses to find the right architecture to suit their data storage needs. The benefit of public cloud storage is that data storage is managed and controlled off-premise by a cloud service provider, without the need to install hardware within the organization. Nevertheless, major concerns revolve around transporting data or business assets…
Forrester analysts issued a new report on Monday titled “2011 Top 10 IaaS Cloud Predictions For I&O Leaders” where they make 10 predictions about IaaS that infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to take into account to build a successful strategy. The report advises companies to focus on the type of private cloud to invest…
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that it has agreed to buy privately held, real-time analytics platform company Vertica Inc. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Vertica’s technology helps customers monetize their data at the speed and scale necessary to deliver significant value to customers and shareholders. Vertica’s customers include Internet companies such as…
Sophos, a security software company, posted a warning on its blog page (Naked Security) about a Facebook Valentine’s Day scam. Some scams currently circulating on Facebook read: “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. Happy Valentines!” “My Valentine this 2011 is going to be [name] 🙂 See your now!.” Another…
The biggest obstacle facing public cloud computing today is security. The major concerns include: internal and external threats, data collection, privacy and compliance. An essential part of any cloud implementation is the cloud service provider’s ability to have a secure infrastructure to protect customer data and guard against unauthorized access. Today’s public cloud is becoming…
Read our exclusive section on the latest topic on Cloud Computing: “Big Data”. CloudTimes recently visited the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA, which was the most important event around Big Data so far. The event was based on the theme “Making Data Work”, and will be held twice a year. The next event will…
VMware is scheduled to release in March 2011 the free vCloud Connector a plug-in that will allow organizations to move their virtual machines from internal systems to hosted services. The vCloud Connector will be a plug-in available for customers using the vSphere Software, The new software facilitates the extension of customers’ data centers into the…
In the past, customer service has been associated with call centers where company representatives had to access different data bases to gather required information on a customer or prospect, to be able to answer the inquiry or resolve the issue at hand. This process was very time consuming and knowledge deficient. To efficiently address customer…