Practicing security in public clouds (at IBM)
Recently, we spoke at the IBM auditorium at the invitation of IGT on the practice of security in public clouds. There have been several requests for the slide deck, so here goes. It first discusses the...
View ArticleWill Cloud competition help move forward standards?
Randy Bias writes a great post at cloudscaling.com about a rumor that Google may be working on an Amazon EC2 competitor. From a business point of view, this makes a lot of sense. AWS currently has a...
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Multi-layered security in IaaS environments
In an interesting post, Chris Hoff points out that IaaS is a multi-layered architecture, and each layer is deliberately controlled and managed by different entities: cloud provider hardware teams,...
View ArticleHow Porticor Virtual Private Data and Amazon Web Services work together
AWS recently sponsored an industry event and invited several companies to present on how they work with AWS. Porticor was invited. We focused on how to enable best practices on the AWS platform....
View ArticleCloud Security SLAs: what do customers want?
Porticor, being a cloud security company, has often discussed customer expectations on SLAs. The most fundamental grouping of customers is: Some do not really know what they want and come to the...
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IaaS eats PaaS’ lunch, and long live both
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) are often described as competing paradigms for the future of the cloud. A commonly heard view is “PaaS is the future of cloud...
View ArticleCloud Computing sells itself: the view from Netflix
The CloudScaling blog scores something of a coup with its interview of Netflix’ Cloud Architect, Adrian Cockcroft. As everyone should know, NetFlix moved its core business application to Amazon Web...
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Wisdom for the new year: never sell Cloud Computing
How to sell Cloud Computing? We could do it the Dilbert way. Say what you will, it hits a button. Or we could do it the old fashioned way. Selling Cloud Computing the old fashioned way? Not convinced?...
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Getting started with Porticor VPD for Amazon Web Services
This post, as well as the public evaluation is intended for Amazon Web Services customers. If you are using a different platform (such as Rackspace, HP or Microsoft Azure), our “Enterprise” version may...
View ArticleCloud Security & Cloud Encryption Explained
Cloud encryption and cloud security are hot topics for enterprises migrating to the cloud. IT departments are constantly looking for ways to increase flexibility and deliver value in shorter times,...
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