On June 22, Pillsbury hosted the first annual Federal Cloud Security Summit, organized by the Washington, DC, chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA-DC). The keynote address was presented by Sonny Bhagowalia, former Deputy Associate Administrator with the GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies and current CIO of…
Cloud-based services give new meaning to the IT holy grail of “cheaper, better, faster” in the right circumstances. You might not even have to settle for just two. But it is important not to let the Cloud fog your thinking when it comes to configuring mission-critical IT-enabled services: adequate failover…
Providers are rushing head-first into the cloud revolution, marketing their latest cloud offerings and promoting the benefits of hosting data externally. To The Cloud–Start-up–Windows 7 by windows-videos But as customers analyze whether the cloud is the right fit for their technology and data, they need to carefully review whether the…
On Friday, April 22, Pillsbury hosted a meeting of the Washington, DC, chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA-DC). Dr. Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Group Chair of the NIST Cloud Computing Security Working Group addressed members of CSA-DC representing local businesses, government agencies and various consulting and law firms regarding the work…
Cloud computing is getting a lot of traction in a time of shrinking budgets. Industry experts speaking at NASSCOM 2011 are expecting cloud based services to be roughly a quarter of the outsourcing industry over the next two years. So the business team is ready to move everything to the…
Two recent events serve to highlight the importance of proper due diligence and appropriate contractual protections when dealing with cloud-based and other hosted service providers: A recent white paper from Context Information Security details the results of a study they performed on several cloud service providers that identified numerous vulnerabilities…