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  1. Will Public Cloud Open up a Can of Worms?

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    by Bob Bentley

    IT and risk managers want to know, if they take advantage of cloud opportunities, what are the real impacts to their business for security, compliance and manageability? Will my applications perform the same way? Will I need to hire or retrain people? These unknowns are causing some businesses managers pause. They’re attracted by the promise of lower cost and greater agility but nervous about the implications of cloud. People often ask me: Will public cloud open up a can of worms? The answer is, it depends how you go about it. Let’s discuss a few primary concerns that must be addressed before businesses can take their first confident steps into the public cloud. Manageability. If you’re consuming services in a hosted environment, that gives you a much lower operating cost, but does the physical distance from the environment add complexity? You certainly don’t want to have to create separate processes ... (Read Full Article)

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  2. ISVs, SaaS and Intelligent Workload Management

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    by Paul Scripko

    About five years back I was thrown into a ‘business strategy off site’ session with my present employer having just joined them the previous week. Not knowing all the players around the table in a conference room at a suburban office park motel I determined that keeping a low profile was the best approach. (Read Full Article)

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  3. Moving Beyond Virtualization

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    by Richard Whitehead

    Moving Beyond Virtualization People often ask what the difference is between virtualization and private clouds. Private clouds allow us to add capacity into our existing environment in an intelligent manner. A major sports organization, for example, experienced huge surges in ecommerce activity as it approached game days and needed to augment their physical environment to meet this demand. (Read Full Article)

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  4. Playing it Safe: 10 Tips to Consider when Moving to the Cloud

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    by Ross Chevalier

    Playing it Safe: 10 Tips to Consider when Moving to the Cloud Many managers are understandably cautious about moving to the cloud, yet it doesn’t have to be a daunting endeavor. Here are ten easy steps to mitigate risk as you begin leveraging cloud applications. (Read Full Article)

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  5. Quenching the Thirst for Private Cloud

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    by Phil Schwartz

    Private clouds are catching fire. It’s a way for security conscious or highly regulated organizations to take their first steps into cloud computing. The U.S. Army, for example, is moving to consolidate servers via compute clouds in select data centers to rein in server sprawl. The announcement was made in the wake of the discovery that server shipments had spiked by 23 percent in the first quarter of 2010. (Read Full Article)

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  6. Hybrid Clouds: Playing a Matching Game

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    by Ross Chevalier

    Hybrid Clouds: Playing a Matching Game “The whole concept of hybrid cloud being a thing is probably not right. It’s really more about an architecture, about a deployment model or a data center model, than it is to say, ‘This cloud is hybrid.’ That doesn’t make any sense.” Lori Macvittie gave us some of her valuable insight (Read Full Article)

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  7. Bringing back the chargeback

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    by John Stetic

    Bringing back the chargeback Columnist Mike Vizard pointed out a fundamental flaw in today’s IT models in his recent article The Need for Transparency in IT. “When people don’t realize how much something truly costs, they generally don’t appreciate it.” This results in overconsumption of tech resources and unpredicta (Read Full Article)

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  8. Protecting Identities in the Cloud

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    by Baber Amin

    Protecting Identities in the Cloud Last month, an AT&T security loophole allowed the e-mail addresses of 114,000 iPad 3G subscribers, including those of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, journalist Diane Sawyer and Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, to be exposed. How can such a blatant breach occur? Simple. Private information was st (Read Full Article)

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  9. The Missing Ingredient: What’s Holding Government Agencies Back from Virtualization Benefits?

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    The Missing Ingredient: What’s Holding Government Agencies Back from Virtualization Benefits? Despite a dire need for belt tightening among government agencies, the public sector still lags well behind the private sector when it comes to virtualization. In fact, more than 80 percent of public agencies surveyed said they aren’t using virtualization to its fullest extent, according to the CD (Read Full Article)

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  10. Intelligently Managing Real IT Costs

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    by Richard Whitehead

    Intelligently Managing Real IT Costs I always thought I was pretty good about controlling costs in my department—until I started getting my group’s monthly cell phone bills. That was certainly eye opening. It gave me an opportunity to see usage costs and better control our budget. People often think a large business has an infini (Read Full Article)

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  11. Breaking free

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    by Ross Chevalier

    Breaking free In a classic Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”, Mr. Spock describes the 1930s technology he was forced to use to construct a computer as “stone knives and bearskins”. This is not far from the IT model businesses have been mired in for decades. Businesses could apply the bes (Read Full Article)

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  12. Identity management, compliance management and workload mobility

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    by Benjamin Grubin

    Identity management, compliance management and workload mobility The web is chock full of both hype and fear surrounding the challenges of cloud adoption. When you’re talking about the public cloud, there’s a lot of truth in that fear. In some ways, focusing on access control and user security obscures impossibly tangled issues, like who is responsible for (Read Full Article)

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  13. What's missing in the market today?

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    What's missing in the market today? The cost and flexibility of cloud computing make it particularly appealing. So what’s holding businesses back from moving to this agile new environment? In my opinion, it comes down to trust and technology. The number one hurdle is trust. Before we can consume cloud applications, we need assuranc (Read Full Article)

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  14. Controlling the Cloud

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    by Anita Moorthy

    Controlling the Cloud Businesses with significant spikes in computational demands would benefit greatly from leveraging cloud applications during peak usage needs, so what is holding them back? The answer is security and compliance. Enterprises lack the identity management capabilities to control the highly elastic world (Read Full Article)

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  15. Who’s Who in the Zoo? Roles Management as the Key to Identity, Access, and Compliance

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    by Kevin Coppins

    Who’s Who in the Zoo? Roles Management as the Key to Identity, Access, and Compliance I may have a tendency to oversimplify things, but doing that can often give you the clarity you need to understand them. Take “identity management” for example. Sometimes when people use the term they really mean identity and access management. Sometimes they’re thinking of it specifically in (Read Full Article)

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  16. The Cloud WON'T Change Everything: Security Risks Organizations Need to Address

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    by Bret Dayley

    Significant benefits are associated with adopting cloud services including lower capital expenditures, less need for on-site support and improved scalability and flexibility. We've all heard "Well, the cloud is going to change everything." That's all well and good -- very good, but migrating to th (Read Full Article)

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  17. What is holding us back from intelligent workload management?

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    What is holding us back from intelligent workload management? There are three essential components of intelligent workload management (IWM): An operating system that enables us to perform a task or set of tasksSystems management tools to deploy and move workloads The ability to make each workload self-aware, so that it knows its own limitations It’s this thi (Read Full Article)

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  18. Cloud Insecurity Part 2: Hacker Attack Patterns and the Cloud

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    Cloud Insecurity Part 2: Hacker Attack Patterns and the Cloud There is an old law of network security which says, if the bad guy can get you to run his program on your machine just once, it’s no longer your machine. Likewise, if the bad guy is able to upload just one program to your website, it’s no longer your website. And, worse case scenario, if the bad (Read Full Article)

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  19. Identity Management and the Unified Fabric of Security

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    by Jay Roxe

    Identity Management and the Unified Fabric of Security The main force driving the evolution of the identity management (IDM) market is, in my opinion, the growing need for organizations to have a unified view of identity in the enterprise. I emphasize “unified” because for a while now the enterprise has seen a steady rise in the number of IDs that p (Read Full Article)

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  20. Cloud Insecurity Part 1: It’s not just about data security

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    Cloud Insecurity Part 1: It’s not just about data security The cloud can look pretty simple, especially from the perspective of the regular end-user who basically sees a hosted application that is available whenever they want it. Indeed, this user pretty much only wants and expects two things from the cloud: perpetual up-time and seamless scalability. Mee (Read Full Article)

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  21. The Key to a Cloud-Ready Business Environment

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    by Ben Goodman

    The Key to a Cloud-Ready Business Environment Understandably, many IT managers are leery about the security risks of cloud computing. They say it’s hard enough to protect data within their own firewall, so how can they take advantage of cloud computing without opening up a host of new security and compliance challenges? After all, while the l (Read Full Article)

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  22. Should CIO’s Invest in Identity as a Service?

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    by Kevin Coppins

    Should CIO’s Invest in Identity as a Service? The answer to that question is, “It depends.”More specifically, it depends on how you want to pay for your software and where you want to run it. Ten years ago, when you bought software you got it on what I refer to as a “LALA” or “licensing agreement.” There were a bunch of different (Read Full Article)

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  23. CISO Guide to Strategy in the Cloud

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    by Dipto Chakravarty

    CISO Guide to Strategy in the Cloud Depending upon whom you talk to, Cloud Computing is either an overhyped term destined for obscurity or the greatest promise for the future of Information Technology. While certainly there is a great deal of fanfare associated with the Cloud, we believe that in the long run, this hype will p (Read Full Article)

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  24. Public clouds vs. private clouds: Let’s not cloud the definition

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    by John Stetic

    Public clouds vs. private clouds: Let’s not cloud the definition. What do you see when you look at cloud computing? Here at Interop, there’s a lot of speculation, interpretation—and heated discussion—as to what cloud computing actually is. Here’s my definition: Cloud computing, whether int (Read Full Article)

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