Category: cloud and privacy

Cloud in the clouds

by Norman Email

The announcement that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks, moves the cloud computing/security issue to a totally ne… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Security, attack, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Public cloud, Private cloud, Defence (Defense), Air Force
Permalink07/02/10 02:03:37 pm,

Outlook: still Cloudy

by Norman Email

The start of a press release begins thus: Following the recent formation of its dedicated cloud consulting group, international solutions provider, Logicalis, today launches its Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service. Architected on Cisco's Unified Com… more »
Categories: data centre, container, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Logicalis
Permalink30/01/10 12:18:24 pm,

Taking security to the Cloud

by Norman Email

A constant theme of our postings on Cloud has been the security issues that customers perceive as so significant in this area. So what about the security issues of delivering security products from the Cloud? This is the latest development to come al… more »
Categories: Cloud computing, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, McAfee, Verizon
Permalink19/10/09 10:35:56 am,

IBM encircling the Cloud

by Norman Email

Today IBM announces its latest steps in Cloud computing. Followers of this blog - as well as scores of others - will know that this is but one in a regular stream of such announcements. Why? Because IBM is out to own the Cloud. It may be a softly… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, IBM Global Services, IBM Strategy & Change Services, IBM Testing Services, Public cloud, Private cloud
Permalink05/10/09 01:31:24 pm,

IBM's desktop in the cloud

by Norman Email

At the end of August, IBM announced it was introducing what it called “the industry's first public desktop cloud service”. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28292.wss After the usual PR guff about the benefits to Mankind of cloud computi… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Google, SMB, small business, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, distributors, cloud and privacy, Citrix, Wyse, Desktone, VMware
Permalink11/09/09 05:35:50 am,