Tag: Cloud
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Cloud’s risks spur ‘notorious nine’ threats for 2013
Cloud’s risks spur ‘notorious nine’ threats for 2013:
The top three threats this year are data breaches, data loss and account hijacking. In 2010, the top three were abuse of cloud services, insecure interfaces and APIs, and malicious insiders.… Continued
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Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire:
James Hamilton is one of the key thinkers charged with solving such problems, striving to rethink the data center for the age of cloud computing. Much like two other cloud computing giants — Google and Microsoft — Amazon says very little about the particulars of its data center work, viewing this as the most important of trade secrets, but Hamilton is held in such high regard, he’s one of the few Amazon employees permitted to blog about his big ideas, and the fifty-something Canadian has developed a reputation across the industry as a guru of distributing systems — the kind of massive online operations that Amazon builds to support thousands of companies across the globe.… Continued
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Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage
Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage:
You hear a lot these days in networking circles about “software defined networks.
Lyatiss isn’t French for IT’s holy grail, but maybe it should be:
Lyatiss, a startup that came out of a French research consortium wants to create a new communication layer designed for the cloud and the upcoming world of federated apps.… Continued
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Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?
Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?:
NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database. NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious.… Continued
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What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud
What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud. All good and well, but is anybody still listening? HP will have to deliver, then we can talk again.
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Rackspace versus Amazon
There’s a place for different business strategies also in the cloud services space. Derrick Harris explains how Rackspace is positioning itself as all about Service and Open Ecosystem (no lock-in), whereas Amazon is all about Ultimate Scalability using a Proprietary Stack.… Continued
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Homomorphic Encryption
Homomorphic encryption: computation on encrypted databases without ever decrypting them. An important step that should eventually allow even the most privacy focused institutions off-loading some of their data processing into public clouds.… Continued
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Drunk on Cloud Kool-Aid? Time To Sober Up
The cloud’s ready, but are you, too? How much does it cost you to rewrite everything to be cloud ready?
When a new business starts, it will likely be on all-cloud platforms. When an established business replaces a single system, it will be cloud.… Continued
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How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game
How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game:
Nothing shows how much software architectures have changed than the intelligent scheduling of computation over differently priced compute resources. This isn’t just a false economy either. … Continued