Beth Pariseau | TechTarget VMware CEO Paul Maritz will reportedly be replaced by EMC executive Pat Gelsinger, and some VMware customers say a change in leadership is just what the company needs to bring focus back to its core virtualization business. Multiple industry sources confirmed published reports of Martiz’s departure and said Gelsinger, who is [...]
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A lesson in fundamentals
07/16/2012
Daniel Beazer/Carl Brooks | 451 Research We’ve been writing about the lessons the recent run of outages have for the cloud industry. Outages at the likes of salesforce.com, Amazon and Level 3 Communications are always going to attract attention, but the main focus of discussion has been around cloud-based disaster recovery and its evolution. The [...]
VCs Front Cloud Downpour
05/02/2012
Patrick Houston — VCs devoted $6.9 billion in 2011 to “Internet-specific” startups, a proxy term for “cloud” because that’s what most of them are doing, according to Steve Bengston, a director of a startups practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. That’s up 68% from last year. In Q4 alone, cloud-related investments of $1.8 billion outdistanced the dollars that [...]
Red Hat’s “Open Cloud” Mantra
02/17/2012
Joe Brockmeier — What is an open cloud? During a resent webcast, Red Hat’s Scott Crenshaw put forward what looks to me like a pretty good definition. He says an open cloud has seven properties: 1. Open source 2. Viable, independent community 3. Based on open standards 4. Unencumbered by patents and other IP restrictions [...]
PCI Compliance in the Cloud
12/12/2011
By Thu Pham One of the main concerns with cloud computing is security – when it comes to national industry security compliance standards such as PCI DSS or HIPAA, additional precautions must be taken in order to protect confidential data during transmission. While PCI compliance calls for very specific requirements to protect customer cardholder data, [...]
Encrypted DBs in the Cloud
12/03/2011
By Porticor Security Recently, in our post on Database security in the cloud, we reviewed the threats against database installations in the cloud and best practices for protecting your data. A number of customers have asked us follow-on questions: • Which database brands are open and tested with these techniques? • What are the most [...]
Europe Distrusts US Data Security
12/02/2011
By Jennifer Baker Concern in the European Union that U.S. data protection laws are too lax has created a new market for European cloud computing services. A recent survey indicated that 70% of Europeans have concerns about their online data and how well companies secure it and now two Swedish companies, Severalnines and City Network, [...]
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