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On Forrester Blogs, John Rymer writes about multitenancy: Despite resource sharing, multitenancy will often improve security. Most current enterprise security models are perimeter-based, making you vulnerable to inside attacks. Multitenant services secure all assets at all times, since those within…
From IBM’s Center for the Business of Government. InterAct and I are mentioned on pages 21 and 34.
RATHER THAN BEING A HAZY CONCEPT, THE CLOUD CAN BE AXIOMATICALLY DEFINED AND RIGOROUSLY ANALYZED THROUGH A NEW APPROACH CALLED CLOUDONOMICS via Cloud Computing – Cloudonomics: A Rigorous Approach to Cloud Benefit Quantification.
The 2012 NASCIO Survey includes the table shown here (I added the bar chart for clarity). Those describing themselves as “highly invested” only grew by 1%, but 65% more reported having some applications in the cloud and considering others. Furthermore, those…
“We don’t care what smart people think. there aren’t that many of them.” Dilbert comic strip for 10/21/2012 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive..
Cloud Benefits for Public Safety Cloud Bene fits for Public Safety Ironically, cloud adoption by public safety has lagged many industries for which the benefit are not nearly as great. The nature of public safety applications is such that the advantages…
Read Part 1 Software as a Service In the SaaS model, a vendor takes responsibility for not only infrastructure, but also for all of the processes required to manage an entire application solution (patches, upgrades, backups, database management, systems tuning, performance management, etc.).…
Forbes reports AlertLogic’s survey of 70,000 security breaches indicates: “…on-premises Web application systems get hammered more frequently with attacks, the study shows. The average number of web application attacks is 61.4 among on-premise customers and 27.8 on service provider…
The U.S. Federal Government has adopted a “cloud first” policy[1] that requires agencies default to cloud-based solutions whenever a secure, reliable, cloud option exists. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a three volume Cloud Computing Technology…