Items Tagged with "Cloud Computing"
Microsoft Forcing Users to Use Less Secure Passwords
September 18, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Looks like Windows 8 is capped at a 16 character limit for compatibility with existing Microsoft Accounts. With the decrease of the character set, by limiting special characters for compatibility with Microsoft’s other services, the passwords are less secure than before...
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Preparing Developers for Tomorrow’s Cloudy World
September 17, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
"The advent of cloud computing has removed infrastructure as a barrier to rapid and massive scaling of applications. [IaaS and Paas have] made it possible for a developer to create an application one day and have it utilized by hundreds of thousands of users the next..."
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CIOs Seek Value But See Challenges with Cloud Computing
September 16, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
The face of corporate IT changes dramatically with a move to the cloud – no longer do people need to spend time racking and stacking servers, patching software and other low level tasks – the fact is that in the long run individual organizations will not have email server administrators, desktop software support personnel or systems administrators...
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Are Applications and Services on the Public Cloud Secure?
September 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Any application that was built to be secured independently of the environment will do as well in a public cloud as it did in your private data center. If you build the application to be low-risk independent of your environmental controls you shouldn't have to worry where it lives...
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Data is the New Perimeter for Cloud Security
September 12, 2012 Added by:Mike Gault
The security market in 2012 is estimated at $60 billion, yet adding more layers of perimeter security may be completely useless against a determined sysadmin working on the inside. The end result is that your data might or might not be secure – you simply have no way to prove it...
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Keeping Safe In The Cloud
September 09, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
“With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to... the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it...”
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DMTF's Cloud Infrastructure Standard
September 07, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
CIMI is arguably more complex than a simple standard – it reflects that people want to rubber stamp a standard, but also want to deliver proprietary functionality as a point of differentiation from the competition. CIMI is a positive initiative, but the proof is in the pudding...
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Steps to Ensure a Smooth(er) Migration to a Cloud Service
August 30, 2012 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
Assuming you have selected a service to migrate to a cloud provider, and have selected the cloud provider, even after contract signing, things may still be far from complete. The migration process is the thing that can be very painful and can break the entire service for an extended amount of time...
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On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)
August 29, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
Cloud vendors are quick to point out how reliable their data centers are with redundant channels, power supply structures and the like. Any application running on the cloud needs to consider the same issues – it is unrealistic to rely on one single data center – a chain is only as strong as its weakest link...
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How the Cloud Disrupted the Corporate Ecosystem
August 29, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
As the cloud wields increasing influence on corporate environments, the traditional ecosystem becomes more antiquated. There’s some paradox in how the cloud is enabling productivity and collaboration while simultaneously eroding security protocols designed to protect intellectual property and corporate assets...
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The Unforeseen Risks of the Cloud
August 21, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Consumer-based cloud platforms focus exclusively on usability and do little, if anything, to prevent the improper distribution of sensitive files and information across the firewall. the opportunity for corporate documents to fall into the wrong hands has become essentially limitless...
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A Day Without COBOL: The Crucial Role it Plays
August 21, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Those who have labeled COBOL ‘a dying language’ should reconsider. With COBOL supporting the majority of the world’s businesses, it is impossible to dispute its viability in the enterprise. It remains a cornerstone of business-critical applications and has successfully navigated through each computing generation...
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The Cloud: It’s About Flexibility
August 21, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
As far as I’m concerned, the future will see a gradual shift from on-premise, to private cloud, to public cloud – that’s a factor of economics and scale. But the bottom line is that cloud isn’t about meeting a series of technical check boxes; it’s about meeting the needs of the business...
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The Day I Was Erased Digitally
August 17, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
It’s everyone’s worst night nightmare - everything digital in your life gets wiped out. Your phone, your computer, your tablet, every email address, social network profile. It really does happen, and most of you probably didn’t know that even techies and security experts worry about this happening to them...
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The Future Ain’t Homogenized: Please Stop the FUD Vendors
August 15, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
At the end of the day, if is slightly cheaper to own your hardware than to rent, the fact is that if in doing so you have to spend time focusing on technology instead of focusing on your core business, then that savings pales into insignificance when compared to the real value that pure focus can bring...
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Don't Miss the TECHEXPO Cloud Computing Hiring Event
August 08, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
As a result of the shift to the cloud, there's been an explosion of career opportunities. TECHEXPO Cloud East will host its inaugural hiring event for cloud computing professionals. Over 20 industry leaders will be on-site conducting face-to-face interviews for immediate career opportunities in the cloud...