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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'cloud computing'


Key to Online Apps Success: Control, Control, Control

BusinessWeek asks what's Holding back Google Apps?. The answer is the same thing that always kills deals to move corporate data to the cloud: control....

Unfair and Deceptive Practices in the Cloud

The world of cloud computing is running with few generally accepted rules. It's a one-cloud-provider-one-privacy-policy business right now. One researcher thinks "swamp" is a better term than cloud. I've argued the cloud makes sense in some cases and not others,...

Balancing Risks and Benefits in the Cloud

Cloud computing understandably got a lot of attention last week at the RSA conference. Somewhere between the overzealous supporters and the "we'll never use it here" faction we'll find some hint of a hybrid model that combines internal data center...

Is Security in the Cloud Better Than In Your Business?

Moving data to the cloud takes a little courage and a lot of trust. How can you trust the cloud computing/storage provider to protect your data? Zoho must get this question a lot and they're probably sick of it because...

SQL in the Cloud Announced Today; SQL Injection in the Cloud to Follow

Zoho has announced CloudSQL for using SQL to query data in Zoho hosted applications. This a plus for developers who just need to take care with crafting queries....

Security Review for Application Deployement

Rolling out a new application is no time to forget about security. In this podcast we look into several topics to consider when deploying a new application, including the last steps in application testing, establishing access controls, configuring and patching...

FaaS: Fraud as a Service

Cloud computing holds promise for many of us, including phishers, identity thieves and others ready to separate you from your money....

The Coming Dominance of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is going to become the dominate paradigm for delivering IT services, the big questions surround who, when, and how. Some IT sages venture some insights....

Amazon's Cloud Computing Goes Production

Amazon's EC2 is no longer in beta and the cloud computing provider is ready to offer service level agreements (SLAs) and support Microsoft Windows servers as well as SQL Server....

More Reaction to Stallman and the Stupidity of the Cloud

Yesterday I posted on Richard Stallman's perplexing comments about the stupidity of cloud computing. Others are wondering about them too....

Stallman: Cloud Computing is Idiotic

Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and well known privacy advocate, thinks cloud computing is a bad idea - and that is putting it mildly....

Google Smartphones Are Coming to the Enterprise

InformationWeek is arguing that enterprise users won't adopt Google smartphones based on Adroid because of a lack of native support for Microsoft Exchange and no desktop synching application....

Building an Application Stack in the Cloud

Microsoft intends to announce its plans for cloud computing at the Professional Developers Conference next month....

How Serious is Google about Google Apps?

How long will Google stick with online apps? The fact that GE chose Zoho over Google is just the tip of the iceberg heading toward Google Apps....

Trading the Desktop for the Cloud: Day 7

Is it day 7 already, or is it 6? I haven't blogged for days on the topic because, well, there isn't much to say about switching from desktop to online applications. While that itself is a point worth noting, there...

Trading the Desktop for the Cloud: Day 2

The second day of this experiment of using online tools to repalce the desktop showed a couple of weak links but still no major problems....

Trading the Desktop for the Cloud: Day 1

The first day of a cloud-centric work day was relatively uneventful but I did find a couple of unexpected snags. (This is a follow-up article to Trading the Desktop for the Cloud)...

Trading the Desktop for the Cloud

Can you trade your desktop for the cloud? Probably not completely but I'd like to find out just how far we can get today, so starting this week, I'm going to conduct an experiment in which I do as much...

Cloud Computing and Security

We've just posted a new article on security and cloud computing. Here's an excerpt:...

Cloud Computing Security

There are many advantages of cloud computing, like the promise of resources on demand and lower costs, but improved security isn't one of them....

Databases for Cloud Computing Gets Serious

EnterpriseDB will start beta testing an Oracle compatible version of PostgreSQL in March using Amazon's computing and storage services. How compatible this version is remains to be seen, but it doesn't need all the spatial, RDF, text management extras of...

IT is Dead, Again

NetworkWorld is running a story today about Nicholas Carr's new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google which seems to argue IT is a dead department walking. I'm looking forward to reading it but in the...

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