Pentagon Refines Cloud Security Rules
The Defense Information Systems Agency released new cloud security guidelines this week aimed at establishing policies for adoption of commercial cloud services by the U.S. military. The security requirements ...Full Article
Weekend Outage Puts Verizon Cloud on Defensive
Verizon continues to take heat this week following what was apparently a planned 40-hour cloud outage last weekend that was attributed to a massive upgrade of its enterprise-class cloud ...Full Article
AWS Rates Highest on Cloud Reliability
The reliability goal for cloud vendors is "five nines" (99.999 percent). According to cloud outage figures for 2014, a handful of vendors achieved that goal while Amazon Web Services ...Full Article
Red Hat Foresees Sprawling Cloud, Container Specs in 2015
"Cloud sprawl," the growing importance of the app developer and the maturing of the application container infrastructure are expected to drive enterprise operations in 2015, according to a year-end ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Gains U.S. Certification
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came to Washington this week to promote the government version of its Azure cloud platform. Nadella announced U.S. general availability of Microsoft Azure Government during ...Full Article
Critical Apps In The Cloud And High Availability
Enterprise data centers have been using cloud computing for several years for their low-risk environments, such as test-dev and non-mission-critical applications. In this context, the benefits of cloud computing ...Full Article
Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
The Defense Department is preparing to issue a new strategy for procuring cloud services that reportedly downgrades the role of its current "cloud broker," giving more flexibility to individual ...Full Article
Honda Speeds Past On-Site Clusters for Critical R&D
When one thinks of Honda Motor Company, the first image that comes to mind are likely of the automobiles, which wouldn’t be unnatural given that the company is a ...Full Article
AWS, Intel Collaborate On New Haswell Xeon Instances
New instances unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week based on a customized version of Intel's Xeon E5 processor reflect what the cloud provider emphasized is a steady increase ...Full Article
Enterprises Gravitate To Amazon’s Cloud
If there is a consistent message coming out of Amazon Web Services from its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, it is that enterprise adoption of Amazon’s public ...Full Article
