Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! The age of Big Data is here. Organizations are no longer challenged to find enough data to answer the pertinent questions required for success in today's dynamic business environment. Rather, companies are struggling to keep pace with the enormous volumes of data invading their organizations - leaving some wondering what can we do to "connect the dots" from the data that is buried in our IT systems. Cloud Computing offers federal agencies, companies, and communities new solutions for consuming, storing, processing, and analyzing Big Data to find the right answers needed to accomplish the mission, gain competitive advantage, and collaborate in more meaningful ways. In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jill Tummler Singer, CIO for the National Reconnaissance Office, and Jamie Dos Santos, President & CEO, Terrem... (more)

Identity and Access Management in the Cloud

In today's business world, data is the lifeblood of most organizations. As such, it has become a prime target for both external and internal threats. Data breaches made plenty of headlines in 2011 and don't show any signs of slowing down. In fact, a recent report from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse found that there were 535 data breaches reported last year alone. Whether it is for a Fortune 500 business, a university or a midmarket company, the protection of sensitive information is not only important for daily business functions, but is now a security measure required by law. As o... (more)

Cloud Expo New York: Industry-Leading CxOs to Present June 11-14

What do the CTO of the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTO of Rackspace, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, the VP of Big Data & Streams at IBM, the Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Controls, and the Co-Founder/CTOs of CiRBA, CodeFutures and Piston Cloud Computing?   Answer: all are shortly to present breakout sessions as members of the largest-ever distinguished Speaker Faculty of Cloud Expo New York, taking place June 11-14, 2012, at the Jacob Jav... (more)

Five Security Principles for Virtualized Environments

Over the past decade, we’ve become much more robust in our approach to information security. We recognize that our company’s largest vulnerabilities have to do with its computer systems, and that data security is at the core of loss prevention, disaster recovery, and even normal operations. Virtualization has created a much more efficient environment for our technology, but it’s also raised some new types of security risks. If you’re going to keep business running as usual and keep it secure, you need to know how to mitigate some of these risks. Here are some things to keep in... (more)

A Fistful of Fears: Our Top Five Security Issues

If you work in information technology and you passed through the city of London over the last week it would have been hard not to notice the InfoSec IT security conference being held at the Earl's Court exhibition center. Logically of course, certain themes and trends came out of this event, which (at a macroeconomic level at least) may provide some insight for chief information officers trying to analyse the state of their current security operation as they try to quantify the vulnerabilities that they may be harboring within their firm's operational structure. Whether we are al... (more)