

Making money as a Cloud Provider
The percentage of IT budgets allocated to Cloud services continues to increase as the use of as a Service" becomes a mainstream strategy...


Security and cloud computing
How can we ensure Enterprise data is protected in transit to the cloud, and once in storage (and when subsequently accessed), how is it...


Note on Risk Management and the Cloud
Think of it as a quadrant of conscious and unconscious competence and incompetence. - Unconscious incompetence - Conscious incompetence -...


The importance of a Business Perspective on Cloud Computing
following is a working extract a soon to be published paper for The Open Group for the CBA Project team. The extract here covers the...


The vote on the Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Project OpenGroup
I am seeing the topic of SOA to enable internal and external services to operate in Cloud infrastructures as a key topic particularly in...


The 6 M’s of Cloud oriented services
Looking at aspects of cloud computing has brought in many different operating characteristics under the spot light. What architects refer...


The need for Multiplicity and maintaining encryption persistence – a mathematical milestone broken
Interesting blog entry on the CCIF around IBM Solves Cryptographic Cloud Security. http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/06/ibm-solves-cryptog...


Cloud Multiplicity - the multi-cloud
Reading a great book by George Reese, Cloud Application Architectures - O'Reilly 2009. Clearly a guy with real experience of the cloud as...


Cloud Clone Augmented Execution
The paper explores a research topic of how to deploy workload intensive operations from a Smartphone platform into the cloud and return...


Factors for consideration in the performance design of Cloud Infrastructures
The evidence of performance issues in today’s cloud are seen in the public domain through outages of service , loss of business through...