Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

By- Bob Landström

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Cloud Cloudiness

April 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Data Center, Data Centers, Enterprise Architecture, IS Security, IT Governance, SaaS

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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