Confusion Persists
Through several posts on this blog, we discussed the many aspects of confusion around the term, “Cloud Computing.” After attending this year’s Cloud Expo in New York City and seeing the same three-layer stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) slide in fifty half of the presentations, I have to conclude that confusion still exists in the [...]
Cloud Cloudiness
April 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Data Center, Data Centers, Enterprise Architecture, IS Security, IT Governance, SaaS
Tags:Cloud Computing·Cloud Expo·Data Center Security·Enterprise Architecture·Security
Data Privacy in the Cloud
April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Compliance, IS Security
We’ve just wrapped up day-one of this year’s Cloud Expo at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. You know, it’s been nearly a year since I attended Cloud World in San Francisco, and over that period of time it surprises me how little new anyone is saying about cloud computing. It borders on [...]
Tags:Cloud Computing·Cloud Expo·Cloud World·Data Privacy·Data Residency·HIPAA·IaaS·IS Security·PaaS·Patriot Act·PCI·PIPEDA·SaaS
Physical Security for Cloud Data Centers
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery Planning, IS Security
As I’ve watched the momentum of the Cloud, it’s caused me to reflect upon earlier discussions about data center physical security. It’s long been my opinion that physical security will soon emerge (or re-emerge) as a top issue in data center planning, since businesses and consumers alike are increasingly reliant on the data and transaction [...]
Tags:Cloud Computing·Data Center·Data Center Security·Physical Security·Security·Terremark
Cloud World: Recap on the August event in San Francisco
August 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Container Data Centers, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Uncategorized
This year’s Cloud World conference was a mashup of three industry conferences- Open Source World, Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), and Cloud World. Even with the combining of three (formerly) major industry events, the attendance volume still only merited the West wing of the Moscone Center.
It’s easy to blame the low attendance on the economy, [...]
Tags:Cloud Computing·Cloud World·Container Data Centers·Data Center
Netbooks and The Cloud
April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, IT Governance, IT Roadmaps, SaaS, Web 2.0, Wireless
Posted by Bob Landstrom
The attention and interest in netbooks has been on the sharp increase over the past six months. A recent post in IT Business Edge makes the claim that netbook sales can be credited with the resiliency the PC market has had through the recent recession.
When one looks for the reasons why netbooks [...]
Tags:Cloud Computing·Netbooks
Let’s Build that Data Center Again!
June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, General, IS Security, IT Roadmaps
In a recent interview with CIO Insight, Kenneth Brill of the Uptime Institute posits that the growth of demand for data processing is likely to cause enterprises to repeat data center construction projects every four to eight years. What?! Do it again?
Tags:Cloud Computing·Data Center·Data Center Planning·Data Center Power·Uptime Institute
