ClickSoftware – Great Case of an AWS Cloud Adoption: Part 1, Operations
	November 14 2012
	By: Ofir Nachmani - Chief Evangelist at Newvem Insights Ltd.
	My first interview was with Mr. Korach, discussing operation and his “cloud day” as the senior DevOps of this cloud service leader. ClickSoftware started utilizing the AWS cloud for non-critical services such as demos and proof of concepts for new opportunities, customers’ training and development staging environments. According to Mr. Korach, there is a clear separation between the company’s internal needs on the Amazon cloud and the cloud service offering. The former are consumed by the specific provisioned and relevant department (Sales, Professional Services, R&D) in the organization, and are managed and monitored by the company IT department. The latter (i.e., the company’s Cloud services offerings) needs are deployed, managed and monitored by Korach’s DevOps team.

	Prepare for the next cloud outage: Analyze and Improve
	July 16 2012
	By: Ofir Nachmani - Founder and Author at I Am OnDemand blog
	It happened again… this was the second AWS outage in the same month. Did you fail to protect your service online? Don’t forget – you can’t pass your liability onto your IaaS vendor. You can find a great amount of knowledge resources with regards to AWS cloud High Availability architectures in Newvem’s resources center, starting from Best Practice for High Availability Deployment all the way to knowing more about how to maintain availability for your specific environment, such as how to maintain a failover to MSSQL DB server, or a case study on how to replicate PostgreSQL DB Between AWS Regions.

	5 Steps to design and build your Cloud Computing Infrastructure
	May 02 2012
	By: Yohan Wadia - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	Cloud computing necessarily requires coordination not just across a variety of data center infrastructure but disparate teams as well. Organization must be ready and willing to change its thinking about applications and how they are deployed, as well as how they are budgeted and assigned resources. The following article talks about the basic steps one must consider adopting when planning to build their own Cloud Computing Infrastructure

	Amazon and Eucalyptus join forces for “Hybrid Cloud” or vs. Open Stack + Other Public Clouds
	March 27 2012
	By: Mitesh Soni - Research Engineer at iGATE Patni
	What you call an alliance when two different kinds of market holders collaborate? By the definition from Google Search, Hybrid means “A thing made by combining two different elements”. Here that thing is an “Alliance”. It is the Alliance of one of the Biggest or arguably the biggest public cloud service provider and one of the biggest private cloud service providers in open source and enterprise versions. As part of this agreement, AWS will support Eucalyptus as they continue to extend compatibility with AWS APIs and customer use cases. Customers can run applications in their existing datacenters that are compatible with popular Amazon Web Services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). For me as a Cloud user it is a simple case of 1st step in the direction of: 1) Acceptance of the existence of “Private Clouds”. 2) Hybrid Cloud implementation

	The Future is C-cubed
	November 18 2011
	By: Tinniam V Ganesh - Founder & Owner at INWARDi Technologies
	The future belongs to 3 important technology domains - Communication, computing and the cloud

	Who’s Protecting Your Data in the Cloud? All Eyes are on You
	May 23 2011
	By: Paula Klein - Editor and Community Manager at Smart Enterprise Exchange
	A recap of our recent videocast about cloud security. Panelists discussed the issue from both the customer and the service provider perspective. Many questions were raised about who is responsible for cloud security and how useful Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are in contract negotiations.

	Tough Questions To Ask Cloud Service Providers
	May 13 2011
	By: Charles Babcock - Author & Editor-at-Large at Information Week
	The cloud is not one thing, so when you're thinking about moving to the cloud, try to find the one that most closely matches the IT environment you've built for yourself. And beware of cloud SLAs, advised Carl Meadows, director of managed services product management at SunGard.

	Is There Auditable Security in the Cloud?
	February 18 2011
	By: Preston Williams III - Senior Partner & CIO at GBC® Global Services
	I recently watched the CSPAN coverage of Cloud Computing in political campaigns held at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. Participants shared their views about cloud computing in campaigns, but the issue of“Auditing through the Cloud” appeared problematic. I put on my “Auditor” hat and began to question a number of issues related to the performance of a reliable audit in a Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud environment. An extensive discussion about various platforms, architectures and application layers as well as corporate protocols and policies provide a lot of food for thought as we consider how, when and if we should deploy a Public or Private Cloud in our enterprise. The ability to establish standards for auditing through the cloud is captured in ISO/IEC27001 “Information Security Management which replaces BS7799-2. The standardapplies Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) principlesgoverning security of information and network systems to the process of developing“Best Practices” which will ensure that providers and customers are satisfied with thelevel of transparency, security and verifiability of both the process and the results of anaudit review. The standard is intended to provide a foundation for third party audits.

	The Challenge of Cloud Integration
	February 02 2011
	By: Ray DePena - Principal Advisor at CloudBender.com
	Thoughts on James Urquhart’s recent articles on “’Go to’ clouds of the future”.

	Cloud Computing Standards – Not This Year
	January 26 2011
	By: John Considine - Founder & CTO at CloudSwitch, Inc
	It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability I started out writing a blog about the state of cloud computing to review how things have evolved in the cloud space over the last year (2010 was a good year for cloud computing) but I got sidetracked thinking about how clouds are converging, or in reality, not converging. It’s clear that end users of cloud computing would like to see true interoperability. Companies want the freedom to pick a cloud that meets their needs, without worrying that choices made today will cost them big in the future or lock them in. Interoperability would mean that a company could choose a cloud for a given workload, and if conditions change, they could opt to bring the workload back in-house or move to another cloud environment – without requiring a major engineering project or a shift to a different computing paradigm.

	Do SLAs really matter? A 1 year case study of 38 cloud services
	January 15 2011
	By: Jason Read - Founder at CloudHarmony.com
	A year ago we signed up for services with dozens of different IaaS and PaaS cloud providers. We then setup monitoring on each of those services. Scheduled maintenance periods were excluded and we also attempted to manually confirm and document extended outages. This article examines the availability we experienced during one full year with each of these services, and compares that metric to the provider SLAs to determine if there is a correlation between the two.

	Cloud Security is Dependent on the Law
	November 22 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc
	Lately there has been some intersting claims of the superiority of public clouds over privately managed forms of IT, including private cloud environments. Regardless of the technical and organizational realities, there is one element that is completely out of control of both the customer and cloud provider that makes public cloud an increased risk: the law. Ignoring this means you are not completely evaluating the "security" of potential deployment environments.

	Crisis Management in Cloud is Courage under Fire
	November 16 2010
	By: Subraya Mallya - Principal at PrudentCloud.com
	Cloud Service providers tout their near 100% availability, reliability and scale. But when accidents happen, and they will, their actions demonstrate their true quality

	The intersection of open source and cloud computing
	June 28 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc
	Cloud computing and open-source software have been intertwined since the early days of the cloud. Vendors such as Amazon.com, SugarCRM, Rackspace, and many others, utilized open-source choices for everything from virtualization to data stores to user interfaces.

	Overcast Show - The LAMP Cloud
	June 22 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc Geva Perry - Founder & Blogger at Thinking Out Cloud
	In this show James and Geva talk with Krishnan Subramanian of CloudAve about the LAMP Cloud. Geva started the conversation in a GigaOm post, Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud?, and James responded with, Does Cloud Computing Need LAMP?. In an indirectly related post, Krish wrote about the Relevance of Open Source in a Cloud Based World. Now they discuss whether it makes sense, who needs it, and what's the role of open source software in the world of cloud computing? They also discuss the adoption of Platform-as-a-Service and more.

	Does Cloud Computing Need LAMP?
	May 24 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc
	The LAMP stack is a collection of open-source technologies commonly integrated to create a platform capable of supporting a wide variety of Web applications. In response to a blog post on "Who will build the LAMP cloud?" the questions arises if cloud computing really needs LAMP when you consider the new alternatives.

	Have SaaS Contracts Become Commodities
	May 04 2010
	By: Jeremy Aber - Founder at AberLawFirm
	Have SaaS Contracts Become Commodities? From a software licensing attorney perspective the answer is in some ways yes, and other ways no. Here is a more thorough explanation.

	What is the Purpose of an End User Contract?
	March 19 2010
	By: Jeremy Aber - Founder at AberLawFirm
	IT contracts are arguably more important than contracts in other industries. In most industries, the buyer purchases a tangible product they then own, or generally knows what type of services they will receive. However, in the IT world the buyer does not own the product and is often unsure of exactly the type of service they will receive. Here is an article on figuring out the purpose of an end user contract.

	The German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Cloud Computing in 2010
	January 22 2010
	By: Scott Sanchez - Director of Cloud Security Solutions at Unisys Corporation
	Why are the issues for BDSG any different in a cloud computing environment? People see it as a risk, some of which I believe are real and others which I believe are just perception.

	Does the Fourth Amendment Cover The Cloud?
	January 19 2010
	By: James Urquhart - Manager, Cloud Computing & Virtualized Data Centers Marketing at Cisco Systems, Inc
	One of the biggest issues facing individuals and corporations choosing to adopt public cloud computing is the relative lack of clarity with respect to legal rights over data stored online. However, a recent note written for the Minnesota Law Review gives a thorough outline of where we stand with respect to the application of Fourth Amendment law to Internet computing.

	Open Cloud as a Set of Tools, Standards, and Community
	June 09 2011
	By: John Engates - CTO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	The CTO at Rackspace, John Engates, discusses open cloud as a set of tools, standards, and community at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference.

	Minds for Sale
	October 27 2010
	By: Jonathan Zittrain - Professor of Law & Co-Founder & Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
	Jonathan Zittrain reprises his popular Minds for Sale talk at Harvard Law School. He presents the potential dark side of cloud labor, discusses how cloud computing is not just for computing anymore, and takes questions from the Harvard Law School Alumni Community.

	Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in?
	July 28 2010
	By: James Duncan - VP of Product Development at Joyent, Inc
	Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in?

	Examining RightNow's Cloud Service Agreement
	March 09 2010
	By: Amy Konary - Director, Software Pricing, Licensing & Delivery at IDC Research, Inc
	CRM vendor, RightNow, announced a new service as a service agreement. Amy Konary, IDC pricing and licensing analyst, discusses how innovative the new policies really are.

	World Economic Forum (Dubai)
	November 22 2009
	By: Drew Bartkiewicz - CEO of CloudInsure at CyberRiskPartners, LLC
	CEO of CyberRiskPartners, LLC discusses the global impacts of the Internet and the implications for shared risk, self-governance, and the future of data privacy.

	Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet
	November 19 2009
	By: Jonathan Zittrain - Professor of Law & Co-Founder & Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
	Harvard law professor and author Jonathan Zittrain discusses the unusual and distinctive technologies whose power increases in proportion to the people participating in them, contrasted with other technologies that leverage what the few can impose on the many - whether a PC virus maker who crashes millions of machines or a law enforcement officer who can use new consumer platforms to spy far easier than before.

	Minds for Sale
	November 18 2009
	By: Jonathan Zittrain - Professor of Law & Co-Founder & Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
	A new range of projects are making the application of crowdsourcing as purchasable over the cloud as additional server rackspace. Professor of Law and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, dives into the ethics and issues surrounding cloud labor.

	Building Confidence in The Cloud
	June 09 2009
	By: Werner Vogels - VP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc
	Trust is the biggest obstacle to winning mainstream acceptance of cloud computing. Enterprises are not going to entrust business critical applications to the cloud unless they feel confident that providers won't let them down on a range of metrics including availability, performance, governance, security, privacy and sustainability. With a set of short presentations followed by a Q&A discussion, this panel looks at what SaaS and cloud providers can and are doing to enable and assure enterprise-class cloud computing. Moderator: Alexis Richardson - CEO & Co-Founder, Rabbit Technologies Ltd Presenters: Kevin O'Brien - Director, SaaS Strategy & Programs, Oracle Corporation; Pascal Walschots - Communications Sector, Microsoft EMEA; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com

	PCI Compliance in the Cloud
	May 15 2009
	By: John Engates - CTO at Rackspace Hosting, Inc
	PCI Compliance in the Cloud

	Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet
	May 04 2009
	By: Jonathan Zittrain - Professor of Law & Co-Founder & Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
	Dartmouth College Institute for Security, Technology, and Society presents Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School on Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet.

	4 Critical Questions About The Cloud
	August 16 2011 - InformationWeek
	By: Nathan Golia Despite the ever-increasing buzz about cloud computing and its purported operational and economic benefits, insurance executives still have many legitimate questions about the value and security of the cloud computing model. Insurance & Technology has identified four of the most pressing questions and provides some answers to help CIOs make up their minds.
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	After power outages, cloud insurance looks even better
	August 15 2011 - GigaOm
	By: Derrick Harris Last week’s possibly lightning-caused outages at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services reiterated a very important lesson in cloud computing: Stuff happens, and even the best-laid plans won’t stand up to an act of god or faulty electrical infrastructure. That’s why the burgeoning field of cloud insurance looks even better than ever. A well-thought-out insurance model will address the actual costs and risks of cloud outages or security breaches, for both customers and providers.
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	Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You
	April 20 2011 - PCWorld
	By: Kevin Fogarty It's unlikely that hordes of VMware, Citrix or Microsoft Hyper-V users will flock to open-source virtualization or cloud-computing platform as an alternative to the hypervisors and virtualized infrastructure-management software they've already chosen, analysts say. So where does open source fit in the cloud world? Think lock-in and migration flexibility.
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	Red Hat extends cloud computing collaboration with NTT
	April 18 2011 - CBR
	By: CBR Staff Writer Telecom company extends use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Enterprise Linux as part of its cloud offering Red Hat, a provider of open source offerings, has announced that telecom company NTT Communications has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for its cloud computing and hosting service offering, Biz Hosting Basic. NTT is also offering Red Hat Enterprise products through the cloud solution.
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	OpenStack Cactus Advances Open Source Cloud Computing
	April 15 2011 - Server Watch
	By: Sean M Kerner The open source OpenStack cloud project is out with a new release this week codenamed 'Cactus.' The Cactus release follows the Bexar release which debuted in February. In the new Cactus release, OpenStack is now taking the Glance image creation service, which debuted in Bexar and renaming it the OpenStack Image Service.
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	VMware Launches Open-Source Cloud
	April 12 2011 - GigaOm
	By: Stacey Higginbotham VMware has entered the cloud game by offering an open-source package called Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service that should strike fear in the hearts of its competitors, especially the likes of Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Rackspace. The platform will offer developers the tools to build out applications on public clouds, private clouds and anyplace else, whether the underlying server runs VMware or not. Like last week’s Open Compute Project from Facebook or Rackspace’s OpenStack effort, Cloud Foundry is a pretty big deal.
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	IEEE's cloud portability project: A fool's errand?
	April 07 2011 - InfoWorld
	By: David Linthicum IEEE, the international standards-making organization, is jumping with both feet into the cloud computing space and announcing the launch of its new Cloud Computing Initiative. The IEEE is trying to create two standards for how cloud applications and services would interact and be portable across clouds. The two standards are IEEE P2301, Draft Guide for Cloud Portability and Interoperability Profiles, and IEEE P2302, Draft Standard for Inter-cloud Interoperability and Federation.
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	Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing
	March 05 2011 - Sys-Con Media
	By: Mark R. Hinkle My slides from my Crash Course in Cloud Computing talk from SCALE 9x, it was my first talk on the subject and based on some feedback I think I am going to add some additional information. On the open source tools I think I am going to add RunDeck and MCollective for orchestration.
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	Cloud Computing and Patent Trolls: How To Prepare Now
	February 22 2011 - ComputerWorld
	By: David Taber CIO - Here's the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a lawyer from a town in Texas you've never heard of, claiming you've infringed on a patent you never heard of. Your team scrambles to replace that hash algorithm, but that means a change to your API and some of your business partners resist making the change. It doesn't matter though: the infringement has already occurred, and you're going to pay somebody quite a bit of money even if you can prove your innocence.
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	Is Your Cloud System Safe From the Law?
	February 13 2011 - GovMonitor
	By: Gustaf Westerlund There are no legal precedents concerning transnational laws and trade agreements with respect to cloud computing. Due to this lack of regulation, companies in smaller nations are vulnerable to foreign governments seizing their data when it’s hosted internationally in a cloud-based system. While this shouldn’t encourage paranoia, companies should seriously consider where they host their data in the cloud.
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	Cloud computing: A legal maze for Europe
	February 11 2011 - EurActiv
	By: Staff The migration of computing into a cloud of massive data centres spread all over the world is giving regulators a headache as they find themselves on the back foot of an industry-driven trend.
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	Canonical: open source is the driving force of cloud computing
	February 03 2011 - Computer Weekly
	By: Adrian Bridgwater Canonical is forecasting clear skies for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is now available on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers as an option to build a business's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) foundation. This shrink-wrapped off-the-shelf cloud computing foundation is designed to allow software developers to run cloud proof-of-concept programs in what Canonical describes as an optimised, pre-configured testing and development environment.
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	Compliance in the Cloud and the Implications on eDiscovery
	January 20 2011 - law.com
	By: Dean Gonsowski Cloud Computing will be a disruptive technology that will ultimately change the face of computing," with a market approaching $300 billion over the next five years, according to recent research from the Market Intel Group. The seemingly unstoppable migration of data to the "cloud" is undoubtedly due to numerous financial benefits, particularly for small and medium-sized companies that historically didn't have the same capital budgets as larger enterprises. However, what lurks below the surface is that this boundless upside isn't without significant risks from a legal and compliance perspective.
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	Security isn't the only barrier to cloud computing
	January 13 2011 - NextGov
	By: Katherine McIntire Peters While the White House is pushing agencies to move more information technology operations to cloud-based systems, senior federal officials said they face a number of challenges beyond security. Dawn Leaf, senior executive for cloud computing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is developing standards for Internet-based networks, said: "One of the things we see strategically for not only government users but for all cloud adopters is the interoperability and portability piece. We talk so much about security we sometimes forget those two."
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	Keeping your legal head above the cloud
	January 10 2011 - Guardian
	By: Jemima Kiss From Gmail and Flickr to Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, you would be hard-pushed to find a consumer or business in the UK that does not rely on at least one cloud-based service. An umbrella term for outsourced technology services, such as email and web hosting, cloud computing allows businesses to outsource a crucial but highly specialised part of their operation to a specialist firm. But with cloud services now so ubiquitous and easy to use, could companies be overlooking the legal implications of such a major shift in their business?
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	Eucalyptus & Red Hat: The Cloud’s New Best Friends
	December 15 2010 - Sys-Con Media
	By: Maureen O'Gara Eucalyptus Systems and Red Hat are now partners. Red Hat has a lot of cloud ambitions and delivers the infrastructure but it doesn’t have a cloud platform. Eucalyptus has an open source-based private cloud platform that does the heavy lifting and provides the cloud’s signature elasticity.
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	50 Open Source Apps You Can Use in the Cloud
	November 24 2010 - Datamation
	By: Cynthia Harvey The cloud computing boom has brought a surge of opportunity to the open source world. Open source developers and users are taking advantage of these opportunities in three key ways.
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