February 14, 2011 RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco–Vivek Kundra, CIO at the White House described the federal cloud computing strategy in his keynote talk. The challenges and directions for computing in the various government departments have been under review for quite a while. You can see summaries of all the reports at…
February 14,2011, RSA Conference, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco–Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com presented his thoughts on security in the cloud. Computers have been on a 10 year major revision cycle since the ’60’s. Mainframes gave way to minicomputers in the ’70’s, which in turn were eclipsed by client/server configurations in the ’80’s. The PC…
January 4, 2011, Storage Visions conference, Las Vegas-a panel looked at digital storage requirements for capturing, editing, and archiving content. Larry Jordan, video production buzz moderated the panel. Speakers included Tom Inglefield from Oracle, Jay Yogeshwar from Hitachi Data Systems, Jim Jonez from Dot Hill Systems, Alex Grossman from Active Storage, Tony Cahill from CET…
January 4, 2010, Storage Visions Las Vegas-a panel of analysts look at trends in storage for media. Dennis Wade from Peripheral Research moderated the panel, comprised of Matt Bryson of Avian Securities, John Rydning and Jeff Janukowicz of IDC, Jim Handy of Objective Analysis and Surgis Mushell from Gartner. Bryson suggested that hard disk drives…
November 3, 2010 Santa Clara, CA—Cloud Expo—Tony Woloszyn, CTO of PerspecSys gave a talk entitled “Best of Both Worlds: Data Privacy, Residency, and Security in the Cloud” in one session. He proposed a public-private hybrid cloud as a solution. The biggest issue for any cloud operation is security. Attacks have gone from a commercialization of…
November 3, 2010 Santa Clara, CA—Cloud Expo—Brian Wilson, director of cloud services at Quest Software talked about “The Private Cloud Top 10 Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid” in one session. Starting out, he defined the requirements for private cloud computing. Private clouds are part of the move to virtualization and cloud management. Users must…