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Building a hybrid cloud

• The most important threat facing an IaaS cloud service

  The number one threat to using an Infrastructure as a Service offering is the vulnerabilities of the underlying operating system and services. Continue Reading

• The best for last? Reviewing Terremark

  Although an investment from VMware should mean that Terremark is the best among vCloud Express providers, our contributor finds that all the hype over Terremark's services may be for nothing. Continue Reading

• Force.com Platform development tips

  In Development with the Force.com Platform, the author describes how to use the Force.com platform to create business applications in the cloud. Read a free excerpt here. Continue Reading

• Top threats in a PaaS cloud service and how to avoid them

  Platform as a Service offerings suffer from vulnerabilities, such as lax default application configurations and holes in Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols, which should be monitored and mitigated. Continue Reading

• VMware vCloud Express providers: Hosting.com, Logica and Melbourne IT

  Hosting.com, Logica, and Melbourne IT may not fit the bill as as vCloud Express providers, mainly because they seemed to have missed the "express" part of vCloud Express. And according to our contributor, a product being in Beta doesn't mean it ... Continue Reading

• Reviewing bluelock vCloud Express

  Using blueblock vCloud Express is a fairly good experience. The user interface (UI) is clean and fast, virtual machines (VMs) spin up quickly, and the time from registering an account to having a VM online is under 20 minutes.Continue Reading

• Mitigating the top three Software as a Service security concerns

  While Software as a Service users rely on the service's provider for general security needs, issues such as insecure credentials can still threaten a system's privacy.Continue Reading

• Five requirements for deploying an application in a public cloud

  Thinking about deploying an application in a public cloud? Investigate these five requirements to ensure success.Continue Reading

• Running a Web service on Google App Engine

  Google's App Engine for building Web applications in the cloud is beginning to support Java servlet-based Web services. It's still under development, but you can experiment using Eclipse support or command-line utilities in the SDK.Continue Reading

• Identifying applications for public and private clouds

  Before leaping head first into cloud services, figure which applications are best suited to a public versus private cloud. This article will help you define target apps for the cloud.Continue Reading

• Network considerations in cloud computing

  The impact of networking on cloud computing is best understood by considering public and private cloud applications in one dimension and cloud access versus intra-cloud networking in the other.Continue Reading

• Making sense of cloud-based SLAs

  Service-level agreements have become the master link in the chain that connects IT departments to cloud service providers, making it essential for IT managers to understand how SLAs can make or break a services relationship.Continue Reading

• Meeting performance standards and SLAs in the cloud

  There are six critical elements of cloud behavior that should be considered to meet performance levels in a cloud computing environment.Continue Reading

• Introducing the key cloud computing platforms

  Discover the current leaders in cloud computing, including Amazon's EC2 and IBM Computing on Demand, and find out whether a public or private cloud is appropriate for your enterprise.Continue Reading

• The IT clouds: IBM, Microsoft and Sun

  Find out how cloud computing solutions from major IT vendors, such as IBM Computing on Demand, can offer increased compatibility to enterprises already working closely with the vendor's products.Continue Reading