Posts Tagged ‘cloud hosting risks’

Cloud Hosting Risks

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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Is cloud computing worth the risk? Cloud hosting risks are always going to be a concern, but then again hosting your website on a server is a concern.  I agree that it can be a risk but there are several thousand people out there working on cloud servers trying to make them better.

Cloud.com developed an open source platform called CloudStack.  CloudStack was designed to reduce the complexity of building the cloud infrastructure on just one company or person. Cloud.com has received more than $17 million in funding to help this project grow.  This solution “accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant private and public cloud services for enterprises and service providers.”  By standardizing the cloud, it will help everyone to be on the same page and have a standard system.

This program helps people like you and me outweigh the risk of switching to the cloud. Cloud stack is the way of the future. Open source cloud computing will help us to develop our current systems and make them better.  No one person can beat a team.  The more people you have working together, the better a product will be.  As long as you all have the same goal!

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NASA Implementing Cloud Computing

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

NASA’s CIO Linda Cureton at Gov 2.0 talked about how the space organization has become Web savvy, namely by adopting social networking and cloud computing. Cureton acknowledged that people are fearful of these technologies but shrugged those fears off as the same that arose with the adoption of the telephone.  We managed to make it work and it has helped out lives greatly because of it.

Cureton talked a lot about how NASA has implemented cloud computing. The organization utilizes “Nebula,” an open-source cloud computing pilot under development at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

“It drives us to look for opportunities to take advantage of disruptive technology and start to develop solutions that are amenable to cloud architectures,” she said.

While Cureton acknowledged that “not everything is suited for the cloud,” she didn’t speak much about security issues that NASA is facing with cloud computing.  Nasa knows this is a huge problem and is doing everything to keep the cloud secure.  Cureton’s message was to invest in clouds regardless of the problems that we are facing with security stating  “This disruptive technology should not be ignored. If you ignore it, it’s going to run you over. Your customers will do this with or without you. Don’t be afraid of security or the hype. Identify risks, manage them accordingly, and jump right in.”

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