Archie Reed’s Secure Observations Blog

As with many who have postulated, provoked, proselytized and/or put down cloud services, I offer a few thoughts on the evolution that will come through in 2011.

• Security remains the top inhibitor – but increasingly...
• Security risks become clearer while breaches escalate - This is the “shooting fish in a barrel” prediction. While a significant amount of security concerns around cloud computing are “gut reactions”...
• Hybrid Clouds becomes the expected norm – but the reality is that...
• Data privacy breaches and concerns increase worldwide driving legislative changes – The concern over privacy has been a more than a whisper for years, but...
• Patently Obstructive Practices - More patent related suits will be filed impacting...
• Community clouds multiply – Many early cloud service providers focus on generic compute and storage...

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There is a new approach that HP is promoting to business services: The Instant-On Enterprise. The key pillars to this are:

Application Transformation

Converged Infrastructure

Enterprise Security

Information Optimization

and yes, even... Cloud

My focus is cloud security, and I wanted to touch on a common fear that providing adequate security means locking down and environment tightly, to the detriment of innovation.

Not so...

Archie Reed and Lee Kedrie of HP, talking cloud computing with Jake Ludington of Digital Lifestyle

Archie Reed and Lee Kedrie were at Oracle OpenWorld as part the HP Cloud Advisor team. Archie and Lee chatted with John Furrier and Dave Vellante of SiliconAngle TV about life, the cloud and everything.

A BriefingsDirect podcast hosted by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, with Jim Reavis of the Cloud Security Alliance, Dave Linthicum Chief Technology Officer of Bick Group and yours truly, discussing the top reasons why exploiting cloud computing models make sense, and why at least experimenting with cloud should be done sooner rather than later. Read more...