Open Cloud Computing Manifesto: Much Ado About Nothing

So apparently a group of technologists and vendors working under the cloak of digital darkness drew out a pentagram and locked arms as they called out to Cthulhu to manifest and drive out those that would oppose their ultimate aims of total and complete world domination. Domination brought about through a set of cloud computing [...]

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Amazon AWS Security…What a Cloudy Web We Weave

Recently I posted some thoughts on cloud security (here), (here), and (here). The bottom line still holds true…
When we allow services to be delivered by a third party we lose all control over how they secure and maintain the health of their environment and in many cases we lose all visibility into the controls themselves, [...]

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Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and More – Part 1: Can We Secure The Cloud?

Cloud computing, or as I like to call it the return of the mainframe and thin-client computing architecture – only cloudier, has been creating a lot of interesting discussion throughout IT recently.
Cloud computing, which we will define as any service or set of services delivered through the Internet (Cloud) without requiring additional infrastructure on the [...]

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