Cloud security

Cloud security issues and the risks of cloud computing are not well understood today and are one of the biggest barriers to adoption of these services. This section helps CIOs a... More about Cloud security

Recent Definitions

• shadow IT (shadow information technology)

  - Shadow IT is hardware or software that is not supported by an organization's IT department.  The term often carries...

• cloud computing

  - A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the ho...

• cloud cartography

  - Cloud cartography is a scheme for pinpointing the physical locations of Web servers hosted on a third-party cloud computing service. The goal of cloud ...

Highlights

• Cloud control freaks must let go of responsibility

• Harvard Business Publishing shares cloud migration lessons learned

• What are the limits of cloud cost analysis tools?

More Cloud security Topics

• Data security in the cloud

• Cloud computing standards and compliance

• SaaS and cloud computing security

Cloud costs, management and SLAs

Deployed correctly, cloud computing will save you money, but there are lots of caveats to getting it right. And with on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud services, it's critical to wr... More about Cloud costs, management and SLAs

Recent Definitions

• European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS)

  - The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by the European Commission to promote the a...

• Cloud Industry Forum

  - The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) is a cloud computing organization in the United Kingdom (UK) that seeks to promote transparency and security in clou...

• sharding

  - Sharding is a type of database partitioning that is used to separate very large databases the into smaller, faster, more easily managed pieces called data shards.

Highlights

• Google Compute Engine prices on par with AWS -- for now

• Limiting the effects of cloud computing outages

• Self-service portals give IT control in the cloud

More Cloud costs, management and SLAs Topics

• Cloud computing for VARs

• Cloud computing pricing and economics

• Cloud service provider business models

• Negotiating service-level agreements and billing with cloud providers

• Cloud management and monitoring

• Cloud computing strategies for CIOs

Cloud development

Discover how cloud computing development platforms let you fire up and test the upper limits of an application in minutes and shut it down just as fast. This section covers all ... More about Cloud development

Recent Definitions

• Amazon CloudSearch

  - Amazon CloudSearch is a scalable, developer-friendly, cloud-based search service that forms part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to Amazon, de...

• accessibility testing

  - Accessibility testing is a type of systems testing designed to determine whether individuals with disabilities will be able to use the system in ...

• static testing

  - Static testing is a software testing method that involves examination of the program's code and its associated documentation but does not require the progra...

Highlights

• Amazon Redshift an appealing alternative to on-premises data warehouse

• Cloud computing practices represent a fundamental shift in IT

• Cloud computing continues to drive IT growth, shapes industry

More Cloud development Topics

• Data quality in test and development

• Platform as a Service and cloud computing

• SOA and cloud development

• Windows Azure development

• Cloud development and testing

• Cloud APIs and frameworks

Cloud infrastructure

Learn about the infrastructure requirements for building a private cloud, also referred to as an internal cloud versus tapping into the resources of a public cloud, or external ... More about Cloud infrastructure

Recent Definitions

• Amazon CloudSearch

  - Amazon CloudSearch is a scalable, developer-friendly, cloud-based search service that forms part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to Amazon, de...

• desktop as a service (DaaS)

  - Desktop as a service (DaaS), also called virtual desktop or hosted desktop, is the outsourcing of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)...

• European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS)

  - The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by the European Commission to promote the a...

Highlights

• Google Compute Engine prices on par with AWS -- for now

• Limiting the effects of cloud computing outages

• Amazon Redshift an appealing alternative to on-premises data warehouse

More Cloud infrastructure Topics

• Building a private cloud infrastructure

• Cloud backup

• Cloud computing and virtualization

• Data center colocation services

• Linux and cloud computing

• Networking and cloud computing infrastructure planning

• Storage in the cloud

• VMware cloud computing

• WANs for cloud computing

• Network and application performance in the cloud

• Public cloud computing services

• Open source cloud computing

Cloud applications

Cloud applications allow companies to eliminate the need to install, run and maintain an application in house by outsourcing it to an application provider in the cloud. The most... More about Cloud applications

Recent Definitions

• shadow IT (shadow information technology)

  - Shadow IT is hardware or software that is not supported by an organization's IT department.  The term often carries...

• SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)

  - SPI is an acronym for the most common cloud computing service models, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure a...

• cloud bursting

  - Cloud bursting is an application deployment model in which an application runs in a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud when the dem...

Highlights

• Cloud control freaks must let go of responsibility

• Cloud computing practices represent a fundamental shift in IT

• Looking to the future of legacy applications in the cloud

More Cloud applications Topics

• Software as a Service and cloud computing

• Oracle in the cloud

• SAP in the cloud

• CRM in the cloud

• Enterprise application integration with cloud providers

Cloud computing use cases

Undertaking a cloud computing project requires an innate understanding of this technology and the advances it has brought about in IT cost management and responsiveness to busin... More about Cloud computing use cases

Recent Definitions

• cloud analytics

  - Cloud analytics is a service model in which one or more key element of data analytics is provided through a public or private cloud.  Cloud analytics appl...

• big data (Big Data)

  - Big data (also spelled Big Data) is a general term used to describe voluminous amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data that would take too m...

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  - The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost Web-based service designed for on...

Highlights

• Amazon Redshift an appealing alternative to on-premises data warehouse

• Why enterprise IT should embrace the cloud business model

• Entry-level big data analysis with Google BigQuery

More Cloud computing use cases Topics

• High-performance computing in the cloud

• Cloud disaster recovery

• Cloud computing business intelligence

• Building scalable websites in the cloud