February, 24, 2012. Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Becky Swain from the Cloud Security Alliance offered five questions people should get answers for when evaluating cloud providers and their security. The responses are based on work the CSA has been doing on standards and governance. The full guidance document comprises177 pages, and only covers general…
February 14, 2012, cloud connect conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jan Jackman from IBM talked about going to market and the value chain ecosystem. The cloud offers potential for great opportunities for change and business practice improvements, but can also become a black hole. A recent internal IBM survey found that involvement with cloud infrastructure enhances the…
February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Bill Gillis, director of eHealth Technologies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center described the challenges of data privacy in a cloud environment. The medical center consists of 1500 physicians in 300 separate practices in Massachusetts. When they created a new data center, they needed it to be…
February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Geva Perry from Thinking Out Cloud talk about the adoption rate of cloud functions. Cloud services and functions are being widely adopted, and finally the data reflects actual usage. He noted that most analyses and surveys are based on executive inputs, rather than users. In fact, most…
February 14, 2012, Cloud Connect Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Jesse Robbins from OpSource described the efforts and requirements to operate in the cloud at scale. The systems need to be robust, and the operators need to be prepared for failures. As operations and software grow in scale, all aspects of the operations increase in complexity, and…