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| Vol 3 Issue 1 | 2012 |
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Cloudbook Journal Volume 3 Issue 1Cloud WarsIn this issue of the Cloudbook Journal, we share stories such as: * Framing Standardization in Cloud Computing * Explosion in Big Data * Security and the Patriot Act * Cloud Computing in Political Campaigns * Building a private cloud using Eucalyptus * Chargeback models in Cloud Computing * Cloud Computing with BPOS and Windows Azure |
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| Cloud Computing and Chargeback Models |
| by Mitesh Soni |
| Chargeback and metering refers to the ability of an IT organization to track and measure the IT expenses per business unit and charge them back accordingly. According to Role, chargeback includes different dimensions. |
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| Cloud Computing Technology with BPOS and Windows Azure |
| by Nidhi Bansal |
| We see cloud computing offerings today that are suitable to host enterprise architectures. But while these offerings provide clear benefits to corporations by providing capabilities complementary to what they have, the fact that they can help to elastically scale enterprise architectures should not be understood to also mean that simply scaling in this way will meet twenty-first-century computing requirements. |
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| Cloud Wars, Part I: Framing the Standardization in Cloud Computing |
| Standards and Standardization Practices in Cloud Computing |
| by Tuomas MT Nurmela & Alex Krikos |
| This article frames the international cloud SDO environment and process, categorizes cloud standards, and provides an example of the use of categorization. |
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| Big Data Explosion--Deriving Insights |
| by Amit Manghani |
| The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world continues to accelerate and surprise us in terms of sheer volume. The data deluge is happening everywhere and is not only restricted to niche sources. It encompasses sensor and machine data, transactional data, metadata, and social network data as evidenced by the examples highlighted below. |
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| Cloud Computing and the Patriot Act |
| by Jonathan Gershater |
| A careful reading of the Patriot Act does not give the Federal government, unfettered carte-blanche access to data stored in organizations’ databases. Users can protect their information stored by cloud computing providers, using encryption. Encryption modifies the storage of data so that it can only be read by users with software and encryption keys to decrypt the data. |
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| Is There Auditible Security in the Cloud? |
| Cloud Computing in Political Campaigns |
| by Preston Williams III |
| An extensive discussion about various platforms, architectures, and application layers as well as corporate protocols and policies provides a lot of food for thought as we consider how, when, and if we should deploy a public or private cloud in our enterprise. |
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| Cloud Computing and Mobility |
| Adjusting in a New World -- From Threat to Ally |
| by Christopher Clark |
| One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost and security intersect on a scale larger than any other IT initiative for executive management. Often times IT is a secondary priority amid the corporate agenda. But getting the IT operations aligned with the strategy is pivotal to the long term growth and viability of a company. |
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| The Eucalyptus Open-Source Private Cloud |
| by Yohan Wadia |
| A Eucalyptus private cloud is deployed across an enterprise’s “on premise” data center infrastructure and is accessed by users over enterprise intranet. Thus, sensitive data remains entirely secure from external intrusion behind the enterprise firewall. |
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| Nidhi Bansal |
| Lecturer at HRIT, Ghaziabad |
| Lecturer at HRIT, Ghaziabad |
| Christopher Clark |
| Chief Operating Officer at Fiberlink |
| Responsible for worldwide operations including strategy, revenue growth, gross margin, profit, cashflow, product, marketing and business development. Software revenue growth of 20% per annum with 4x increase in cashflow during this same time period. Built a cloud computing, hosted software as a service (SaaS) platform for mobile device management across Microsoft, ipad, iphone, Symbian, Android with integrated security applications and compliance reporting. |
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| Jonathan Gershater |
| Cloud and virtualization security specialist at Trend Micro Incorporated |
| Security and compliance professional with expertise in: Virtualization Security PCI Compliance Identity, Privacy, Role Management. Specialties Virtualization, firewalls, Deep Packet Inspection, File Integrity, Log Inspection, Anti-malware, User identity, entitlements, access control, encryption, Strong LAMP stack skills Very customer focused with acute ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms. LDAP / Directory Server expert! |
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| Alex Krikos |
| Principal at Technology Management Services |
| Alex Krikos is a consultant in cloud computing/XaaS business models and architecture in Denver, Colorado. He has held senior engineering and management positions at Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, and Qwest Communications. Alex has led cross-disciplinary, international teams in the definition, design, development, and delivery of VLSI, workstation, server, graphics, storage, software, digital imaging, and cloud computing products and services. Alex holds graduate degress in engineering and business administration from Stanford University and MIT-Sloan School of Management where he is a System Design & Management Fellow. |
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| Amit Manghani |
| Sr SaaS Product & Solution Manager at SAP |
| Over the past 2.5 years, Amit has been involved with the OnDemand group at SAP in different capacities. Initially as part of the “OnDemand” team, Amit worked as a Product Manager driving the evolution of Business Application OnDemand platform. L ast year he lead the Business Modeling and pricing initiative for the next generation of the Business Intelligence OnDemand offering. |
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| Tuomas MT Nurmela |
| Consultant at Helsinki, Finland |
| Tuomas Nurmela is a consultant in Helsinki, Finland, . He has previously worked in IT industry for 12 years in various positions in the area of software development, operations development, solution consulting and product development at TeliaSonera and Tieto, mainly in the managed service provider business units. Tuomas holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Helsinki and an MBA from HÉLIA-Haaga University of Applied Sciences. He is currently continuing studies at university of Helsinki and Aalto School of Economics, with focus on collaborative governance of virtual organization infrastructures and impact of cloud computing phenomena to growth strategy execution of B2B IT firms. |
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| Mitesh Soni |
| Research Engineer at iGATE Patni |
| I am working as a Research Engineer. I have been in the domain of Research from the beginning of my career. I have explored XBRL, UBmatrix, Coyote, JREX, JetS3t API to access Eucalyptus Private Cloud, One Jar Utility, ProGuard Obfuscator, Hadoop, Amazon Web Services, Right Scale Management Tool, Cloud Security, Cloud Governance and so on. |
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| Yohan Wadia |
| Research Engineer at iGATE Patni |
| Research Engineer at iGATE Patni |
| Preston Williams III |
| Senior Partner & CIO at GBC® Global Services |
| Preston Williams III is Senior Partner & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at GBC® Global Services. He is a pioneer & futurist with 20+ years of Big 4, Fortune 500, Global 100 and entrepreneurial experience. That experience includes Senior Auditor with Price Waterhouse (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Controller for Lynn-Phill, IT Consultant with McGladrey & Pullen and Andersen Consulting (Accenture) as well as Project Executive at IBM Global Services. Mr. Williams also worked as the first Product Manager for Global Data Collection with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Langston University. |
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 3 Issue 2, 2012 Cloudbook Journal Volume 3 Issue 2 Highly Available in the Cloud In this issue of the Cloudbook Journal, we share stories such as: * Delivering highly available shadow sites in the cloud * Cloud analytics on AWS * In-Person event planning in the cloud * Unlocking the commercial potential in your cloud software * Velocity marketing * How to do cloud marketing in a recession |
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 2 Issue 4, 2011 Cloudbook Journal Volume 2 Issue 4 Building a Private Cloud In this issue of the Cloudbook Journal, we share stories such as: * Building a private cloud * Scaling your SaaS business through multi-tenancy * Consumer cloud computing * First move advantage to moving to the cloud * How Cloud Computing applies to calibration management ... and more! |
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 2 Issue 3, 2011 Cloudbook Journal Volume 2 Issue 3 Blueprints to the Cloud In this issue of the Cloudbook Journal, we cover areas such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 2 Issue 2, 2011 Cloudbook Journal Volume 2 Issue 2 The Cloud Takes on Supply Chain This issue includes stories such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 2 Issue 1, 2011 Looking Ahead: A Cloud Report from 2015 This issue includes features such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 7, 2010 Run Your Core Business In The Cloud This issue includes features stories such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 6, 2010 Build Your Own Cloud? This issue includes features such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 5, 2010 The Next Cloud Battleground? This issue includes featured stories such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 4, 2010 Is the Cloud Broken? This issue includes features such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 3, 2010 Security This issue includes features such as:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 2, 2010 Counting the Cloud In this issue the following topics are covered:
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Cloudbook Journal: Vol 1 Issue 1, 2010 Inaugural Issue In this issue, discover:
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