I was talking with Avanade’s Senior Director for Enterprise Security, Ace
Swerling, earlier today. The conversation touched on a wide range of security
and identity management issues that I’ll probably return to, but one of
Ace’s comments brought my attention back to an issue that has been nagging
at me for a while.
As I’m sure we all know, security concerns often figure highly in
discussions about moving Enterprise applications and data to the Cloud.
Indeed, I spoke with other Avanade executives earlier this year to report on
a survey they had commissioned that suggested just how significant these
concerns can be for potential customers.
In today’s conversation, Ace appeared to agree (as do I) with the frequent
assertion that Cloud providers’ own systems will tend to b... (more)
Rackspace has been in the mainstream hosting business for over a decade, and
was amongst early entrants into the utility computing market with the launch
of Mosso back in 2006. Now rebranded as The Rackspace Cloud, the company’s
Cloud Computing offering is one of the most widely used in the industry,
probably sitting in second place close behind Amazon.
Lew Moorman is President of Rackspa... (more)
Cloud Computing Journal
Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior
executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact
of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner
Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalface in
adopting various Cloud (mainly SaaS) solutions.
Carr blogged on Friday, n... (more)
I covered Avanade’s Global Cloud Computing Survey for CloudAve back in
February, and took a closer look at the security concerns it highlighted in a
related post for this blog.
Avanade re-commissioned the same research firm, Kelton Research, to undertake
some follow-up work between 26 August and 11 September, and the responses
from over 500 C-level executives show a healthy dose of pragma... (more)
Back in May, ReadWriteWeb reported on a Motion put before legislators in the
Canadian city of Vancouver. Duly passed, the Motion commits the city to three
closely related ‘open’ agendas;
the City of Vancouver will move as quickly as possible to adopt prevailing
open standards for data, documents, maps, and other formats of media; the
City of Vancouver, when replacing existing software or ... (more)
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