By saying that encryption is not enough for cloud security, I donāt mean that you also need other types of protection like server security, identity management, etc. Ā I think most people deploying cloud computing plan to implement more than encryption for security. Ā What I mean is that encryption alone is not enough in an encryption…
Read MoreIn my last blog post, I discussed some of the benefits of agentless security for virtual and private cloud servers. Today at VMworld, Harish Agastya, Director of Data Center Security at Trend Micro, conducted a presentation on Agentless Security for VMware Environments (listed on the Trend Micro VMworld page). Trend Micro released agentless antivirus in…
Read MoreThereās a lot of talk about cloud computing and cloud security this week as many people are attending VMworld in Las Vegas (follow Trend Micro at VMworld).Ā But not all types of cloud security are best suited for all types of cloud computing.Ā When people generically refer to ācloud computingā they usually mean the public…
Read MoreFor the last few months, weāve been conducting a cloud, virtualization, and VDI security survey of 1200 IT professionals from larger companies in 6 countries around the world. Not only did I get to help shape the questions on the survey, Iāve also been on the team interpreting the results. Weāve learned more than a…
Read MoreThis is pretty cool. I gave a talk last week at the Glue Conference in Denver about how ambient clouds ( http://cloud.trendmicro.com/good-clouds-evil-clouds-why-microsoft-has… )work and even used Skype as an example of a massive-scale ambient cloud.
This case raises some very important new questions around ambient clouds.
Today at Synergy, Citrix announced āProject Olympus,ā effectively making open source clouds a more viable option for enterprises. In the past, it was cloud providers like Rackspace who tended to focus on open source cloud infrastructure, while enterprises tended to make more conservative choices where support contracts were available.
Read MoreI recently had an interesting chat with the operator of our snack vending machine while making a coffee in the kitchen. She was restocking our machine and had her iPad sitting on the table. In their 2 person company they now have 2 iPads and a PC. They do their inventory control and tracking while onsite at customer premises via the iPad.
Read MoreHow difficult is it to run a public cloud service? As all of us know, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage on 21-Apr-2011 and that lasted for almost 4 days. Quite a lot of companies were affected and you can find the list here. The Internet was flooded with articles speculating what went wrong,…
Read MoreThe Small Business Journey to the Cloud is Actually a Round Trip Ā Ā Ā Ā By Greg Boyle, Trend Micro Global Product Marketing Manager Many small businesses are still uncertain about cloud computing. They wonder if it can help with their profitability without being extremely risky. Letās start by defining cloud computing in small business terms. There…
Read MoreDo you know what cloudbursting is? It is a concept where when you run out of your computing resources in your internal data center, you āburstā the additional workload to an external cloud on an on-demand basis.
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