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Home   »   VMs

What Are the True Dangers of the Cloud?

  • Posted on:September 8, 2011
  • Posted in:Cybercrime, Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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We often hear that security and privacy concerns are the main inhibitors to cloud adoption.Ā  But what are the true threats?Ā  Is the cloud really more dangerous than your on-site data center?Ā  I would say that virtualization and cloud computing aren’t inherently more dangerous, but they have unique infrastructure that must be addressed when creating…

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Agentless Security Gets an ā€œAā€ on Its Report Card

  • Posted on:August 30, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
0

In 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…

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Tags: APIsCloud SecuritydatacenterhypervisorsPrivate CloudvirtualizationVMsVMware

Matching Security to Your Cloud

  • Posted on:August 30, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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There’s 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 ā€œcloud computingā€ they usually mean the public…

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Tags: cloud computingCloud Securityhybrid cloudhypervisorsiaasPrivate CloudPublic CloudvirtualizationVMs

Open Source Clouds Become Enterprise-Grade: Citrix and OpenStack

  • Posted on:May 25, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
0

Today at Synergy, Citrix announced ā€œProject 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.

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A Tale: The Snack Supplier, the Vending Machine, and the Cloud

  • Posted on:May 23, 2011
  • Posted in:Cybercrime, Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Greg Boyle
2

I 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.

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Tags: cloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitycybercrimecybercriminalshosted securitymobile devicesportabilityPrivate CloudPublic CloudthreatsVMsVulnerabilities

Did Amazon’s aggressive algorithms prevent customer data loss?

  • Posted on:May 11, 2011
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
0

How 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,…

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Tags: AmazonAWScloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitydatacenterDenial of ServiceEBSEC2Private CloudPublic CloudSecureCloudVMs

What is Cloudbursting?

  • Posted on:March 15, 2011
  • Posted in:Cloud, Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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Do you know what cloudbursting is? It is a concept where when you run out of your computing resources in your internal data center, you ā€œburstā€ the additional workload to an external cloud on an on-demand basis.

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OpenPaas and CloudBees: Java in the Cloud

  • Posted on:February 28, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
1

OpenPaas and CloudBees: Java in the Cloud. Is vendor lockin eliminated?

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The Virtualization Treadmill: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

  • Posted on:February 10, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
0

Is Virtualization stupid? It forces guest VMs sharing a host to do the same things over and over, without sharing. It takes up countless hours of otherwise useful – and expensive – server time.

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Tags: cloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitydatacenterEC2hypervisorsiaasin-the-cloud scanningmalwareMicrosoftpaasPrivate CloudPublic CloudSecureCloudvirtualizationVMs

London Bridge is Falling Down

  • Posted on:January 11, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
0

Everyone is familiar with the traditional nursery rhyme, ā€œLondon Bridge is Falling Down.ā€ However, few know that it traces its roots back to a factual wonder of the medieval world.

The original London Bridge struggled from a problem facing the cloud computing model… overcommit. Resource pooling provides fantastic economies of scale, but what happens when everyone needs the resources at the same time? The bridge could support the houses or a massive amount of traffic, just not both.

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