Are we ready for the growth of public clouds?
Cloud will be king at the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2013 conference running June 11- 14. There will be some 50 sessions on cloud deployment at the conference. Much of the anticipation focuses on the rise of public clouds. But as public clouds become more common, the need for the infrastructure to handle [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2013  2:56 PM
cloud deployment, Conferences, JBoss, Public Cloud, Red Hat

Public cloud security concerns
The Are Cloud Services Trustworthy video got me thinking about particular security measures I should include in a cloud service contract. Any experienced ideas?

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  2:01 PM
Cloud Computing, Cloud computing security, Cloud Security, Open IT Forum, Public Cloud

OpenStack: Is this a step in the right direction for cloud computing?
On Monday, Rackspace launched their open source cloud computing project, OpenStack. They’ve partnered with NASA, releasing the code for Rackspace’s public cloud spaces Cloud Files and Cloud Servers. Later this year, NASA will release code for its Nebula cloud platform. Do you think their goals of creating cloud computing standards separate from proprietary cloud computing [...]

Answer Question   |  December 16, 2011  2:51 PM
Cloud Computing, NASA, Open IT Forum, Open source, open source software tools, OpenStack, Public Cloud, Rackspace