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Hardening a Cloud
There is this interesting article about the security ramifications of Cloud-based computing. An interesting observation is that security would fall somewhere between security focused larger enterprises...
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Head in the Clouds
I had begun to worry about Pamela Dingle. For an eternal optimist she had recently sounded, well, pessimistic. Fortunately the optimist is back with her head in clouds. Computing clouds that is: As...
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Cloudy forecast
Bavo De Ridder has this interesting take on Cloud Computing: Cloud computing is cool, no doubt about that. There have never been more good looking and futuristic looking schematics been made in Visio....
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Risk, liability, and clouds
I had discussed the issue of software vendor liability here and made the point that no software vendor (now or in the near future) is going to assume the liability for the cost to your business if...
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Dinning at the Caveat Emptor Café
I had seen the Ma.gnolia service a while back because it was an early adopter of OpenID. But I have not used the service, and now it looks like I never will: In late January the social bookmarking...
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Jurisdiction matters
Bruce Schneier has this posting about privacy risks for Cloud software. These are all good points, but there is one that Bruce doesn’t mention. In fact few people are mentioning it which is a shame...
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Jurisdiction matters further
I wrote here about how legal jurisdiction affects privacy. Tim Cole writes here about how the EU Data Protection Directive affects cloud services: Recently, at a press briefing by German IBM boss...
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The cloud vs the castle
Here is an interesting story about one downside to SaaS: Stealing the password for someone’s Gmail account, for example, not only gives the hacker access to that person’s personal e-mail, but also to...
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Kloudy Kindle Kerfuffle
There are several themes emerging in the wake of the Kindle Kerfuffle (see this and this). These can be summarized as: Kindle is really a cloud service The recent file deletion kerfuffle is not about...
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Top 10 cloud scares
This article lists 10 reason companies may resist adopting cloud services. There some good points here but number 6 is just silly. Even if you are a believer in anthropogenic global warming (as opposed...
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