Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIOSecurity
Cloud security issues and the risks of cloud computing are not well understood today and are one of the biggest barriers to adoption of these services. This section helps CIOs and IT managers assess the security risks of cloud computing with the latest information on cloud security standards; how to manage data security in the cloud, data privacy in the cloud and the regulatory and compliance implications of moving to a cloud model. This topic also covers auditing cloud computing service providers and cloud computing risk management. More about Security
Costs and management
Deployed correctly, cloud computing will save you money, but there are lots of caveats to getting it right. And with on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud services, it's critical to write rock-solid service-level agreements to ensure service levels are being met. This topic covers the reliability of cloud services, how to write SLAs to ensure cost-effective use of cloud services and how to weigh cloud providers' service levels and cloud pricing. This topic also includes information on how to build and manage a private cloud infrastructure to reduce IT costs. This topic covers pay-as-you-go services, writing service-level agreements for the cloud, SLA management, ensuring service levels in the cloud, monitoring service-level performance and the economics of cloud computing. More about Costs and management
Development
Discover how cloud computing development platforms let you fire up and test the upper limits of an application in minutes and shut it down just as fast. This section covers all the latest information on developing apps in the cloud, test and development in the cloud, technical advice on writing code in the cloud, cloud APIs and platform as a service. This topic covers Microsoft Windows Azure, workflow for development in the cloud, AWS, EC2, Google App Engine, application performance testing in the cloud, Hadoop, open source cloud and Eucalyptus. More about Development
Infrastructure
Learn about the infrastructure requirements for building a private cloud, also referred to as an internal cloud versus tapping into the resources of a public cloud, or external cloud. Find out how to bridge the two with a hybrid cloud, or virtual private cloud. For each approach there are network and application performance issues, storage and compute considerations and underpinning it all, virtualization technology decisions that will determine the success of a cloud strategy. This topic covers public and private cloud infrastructures, VMware, Virtual Datacenter OS, vSphere, Egenera, Citrix Cloud Center, 3Tera, rPath and Hyperic. More about Infrastructure
Applications
Cloud applications allow companies to eliminate the need to install, run and maintain an application in house by outsourcing it to an application provider in the cloud. The most well known of these providers today is Salesforce.com which sells CRM software as a service. Read news and technical advice on application compatibility in the cloud and the pros and cons of using cloud-based applications. This topic covers enterprise applications, productivity applications, custom applications, collaboration, Gmail, SlideRocket.com and Google Apps. More about Applications
Use cases
Undertaking a cloud computing project requires an innate understanding of this technology and the advances it has brought about in IT cost management and responsiveness to business needs. Get news, tips, tutorials and expert advice on developing applications in the cloud, hosting apps in the cloud, cloud storage and cloud compute services, email in the cloud, databases in the cloud, evaluating platform-as-a-service offerings and other aspects of cloud computing projects. This topic covers testing and development in the cloud, remote storage in the cloud, disaster recovery in the cloud, web application hosting in the cloud, batch computing in the cloud and managing cloud resources. More about Use cases