Safety in the Cloud?

Researchers at MIT and the University of California, San Diego, have found that attacks can target specific data held within the cloud. The report claims that operating in the cloud brings new security risks that organizations should consider.

The researchers conducted a fake attack against a well known cloud service provider. The researchers were able to locate, target and monitor a series of computers…

Government to Tap Brakes on IT Spending

According to a new report by TechAmerica, federal IT budgets will only grow 3.4% in the next 5 years. This is a significant drop from the 8.3% growth rate from 2005 to 2010.

The estimates for the decrease in growth rate are influenced by the percentage of the federal deficit through 2020. The Department of Justice, the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services are expected…

Securing the Cyber Cloud

As the government and private sector move more towards cloud computing, the question of security “in the cloud” is becoming a central component of the debate. There are a number of competing ideas regarding the best way to properly secure data being stored in the cloud.

For some government agencies, including the CIA, their cloud data is hosted and run internally, allowing the organization to implement…

Spies Like Life in the Cloud

The Central Intelligence Agency is a big supporter of cloud computing, according to a recent article on computerworld.com.

The CIA feels that using cloud computing can better secure its data while increasingly flexibility.

Despite this increased reliance on cloud computing, the CIA is still firmly in control of its data. The CIA does not outsource this service and instead intends to operate the cloud internally. The deputy CIO believes…

NASA May Be Prototype For White House Cloud Computing Initiative

The White House may decide to make NASA its pilot project for replacing the government’s current IT infrastructure with cloud computing. According to NASA’s associate chief information officer for architecture and infrastructure, Mike Hecker, NASA officials have ”broached the idea of NASA becoming an IT service provider. NASA as an IT service provider takes us into a new realm.” But also said that, “We’re still debating if that’s a good idea or…

The President’s CIO Proposes One-Stop Government Cloud Shop

We all know that Obama’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra believes cloud computing should be the dominate technology in the US federal government and that it should be the future of IT technology. Kundra plans to make this goal a reality with the launch of a General Services Administration (GSA) ‘storefront’.

At a cloud computing symposium last week, Vivek Kudra said, “We will abstract…

Cloud Computing Expo Announces Unisys Keynote Speaker

The 4th annual SYS-CON Cloud Computing Conference & Expo has announced Unisys’ President of Systems & Technology  Richard Marcello as keynote speaker and Unisys as the primary sponsor for the event. The conference and expo will be held November 2-4, 2009 in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California. 

Richard Marcello believes, “that cloud computing will revolutionize the way enterprises obtain business and IT services and change the kind of…

IBM Invests In Cloud Computing

Since IBM’s partnership with Google to introduce ‘cloud computing’ to universities over two years ago, IBM has started to invest in computing outside the realm of academia. Stating on its website “Cloud computing focuses on the user, and offers highly efficient acquisition and delivery of IT and information services. Cloud computing is defined and characterized by massive scalability, superior user experience,…

The Future of Computers: Less is More

Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, famously remarked, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” It looks like he might have guessed too many.

Cloud computing is one of the hottest trend in IT.  Basically, cloud computing is shifting software and memory resources away from personal computers toward a common network hub shared by many computers.  Think YouTube: Years ago, the only way to view video…