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Dave Asprey in
Ambient Cloud, DataCenter, public cloud
Nov 27th, 2012 |
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It’s really interesting to see that the Pirate Bay just found a new reason to get rid of its physical servers in exchange for moving to the cloud. Sure, lots of companies have made the move from physical servers to virtual servers to cloud, but it’s ironic that The Pirate Bay is inadvertently leading the charge towards more resilient cloud computing. The new architecture of The Pirate Bay is a highly variable cloud environment that looks more like an ambient cloud, or at least a distributed cloud, than a centralized cloud.
The history of the cloud has taught us that things on the fringe...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Nov 22nd, 2012 |
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Here is a carefully assembled list of the most common – and annoying – marketing mistakes made by cloud (or non-cloud) companies.
1) Cloudwashing – treat all cloud stuff the same.
Do you mean PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, or private cloud…. or just virtualization? Or maybe your kid’s aquarium service that has a web page with online ordering is actually “cloud aquarium management.” I think not.
2) Forget that enterprises own clouds too.
Repeat after me: Public cloud is not the only kind of cloud. Private cloud is real.
3) Say the cloud isn’t secure.
Uh, which cloud? The private one...
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Dave Asprey in
Ambient Cloud, Cloud, Securing the Cloud
Sep 18th, 2012 |
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Previous post: Ambient Cloud: Who is responsible for securing the cloud?
We have mentioned that the enterprise is responsible for securing their own cloud and can give access to providers to assist in securing their cloud. (For an additional premium, of course.)
But how should you approach security? There might be problems.
1. Extend your perimeter to the Cloud
Contrary what many are saying, the perimeter-based security model is not dead at all. When dealing with the cloud, enterprises still have the notion of a perimeter. The choice for firms is whether they extend that perimeter into the...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, DataCenter, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats from the Cloud
Jun 2nd, 2011 |
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This is pretty cool. I gave a talk last week at the Glue Conference in Denver about how ambient clouds ( http://cloud.trendmicro.com/good-clouds-evil-clouds-why-microsoft-has… )work and even used Skype as an example of a massive-scale ambient cloud.
This case raises some very important new questions around ambient clouds. For instance, if you create an ambient cloud, one that you control using your own protocol, but where you have no control over when an endpoint may join it, what are the legal implications if someone else uses your protocol?
In an open source world, slapping a lawsuit on...
