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Understanding Cloud’s Multitenancy | Forrester Blogs

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

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Mitigating the Risks of Cloud Computing in Law Enforcement

From IBM’s Center for the Business of Government. InterAct and I are mentioned on pages 21 and 34.

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Cloud Computing – Cloudonomics: A Rigorous Approach to Cloud Benefit Quantification

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.

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Public Safety CAD and RMS Data Conversion Strategies

Incorporating use of a read-only historical archive reduces the risk that conversion will be a stumbling block in CAD and RMS projects. Conversions are a costly and error-prone aspect of acquiring new CAD and RMS systems. Both CAD and RMS

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Top 25 Passwords of 2012

From SplashData password 123456 12345678 abc123 qwerty monkey letmein dragon 111111 baseball iloveyou trustno1 1234567 sunshine master 123123 welcome shadow ashley football jesus michael ninja mustang password1

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The Benefits of Cloud Computing For Public Safety – Part 2

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.).

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Cloud Apps Somewhat More Secure Than On-Premises Apps: Survey – Forbes

  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

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Software Liberals and Conservatives

Steve Yegge defines software liberals and conservatives here. He writes: … Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal. (Note: Technically, you could stop reading right here and be at pretty much 90% comprehension. In case

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Cloud Computing for Public Safety

The U.S. Federal Government has adopted a “cloud first” policy 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 Roadmap and

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The great debate: Windows Azure vs. Amazon Web Services — Cloud Computing News

GigaOm’s very interesting debate about the relative merits of Microsoft’s Azure versus Amazon AWS. Bottom line for me: Microsoft’s moves are impressive, and will be attractive to those who are already part of the Microsoft ecosystem, but come with several

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