One of my course participants came back to me after I wrote about “public and private cloud computing“. His company runs a service where his customers access their digitized paper files. The service runs on servers that they deploy from a hosting provider. Because of this, they can promise their customers that their data will […]
Right after the internet became popular, organizations had their reasons to want private versions of it. Remember the intranet? Looks like the internet, but totally controlled by the company. It is a bit like kindergarten: you can play, but you can’t get out over the fence. The same thing happens with cloud computing. Companies want […]
Yep, I have been travelling like crazy recently. See my tweets at http://www.twitter.com/petersgriddle The newest destination was Kuala Lumpur, and it looks like I will be getting back real soon, as I have found some great partners in India and Malaysia. We are easily filling training sessions for cloud as well as virtualization (like private cloud). […]
It never takes long, when I talk with people about cloud computing, before the question comes up. “How do I move my application to the cloud?” Oftentimes, the resistance that lurks in that question points to the hidden question that should be answered first: “Why should I move my application to the cloud?”. And the […]
It has been a while since I spent time in developing countries; you know, the countries where I am the only person of European descent around, which makes me stick out like a lighthouse at sea. My tallness only accentuates that. I travelled through India first, delivering training and having some business meetings. India is […]
This week I am honored to train government officials in Bangladesh, most of whom work for the Bangladesh Computer Council. With 25 learners, this is one of my largest groups so far. The scope of the training is Cloud Essentials as well as Virtualization Essentials. As Bangladesh is one of the poorer countries in the […]
In this post on the importance of cloud essentials training, Ron Hogue makes a strong case for this type of training to enhance your career. You might prefer to watch the video (and you might want to subscribe to his blog or Youtube channel for weekly updates): As Ron puts it: Does recent cloud news […]
The Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge is backed by the Cloud Security Alliance, in which basically every major cloud player is represented. Today I managed to pass the exam, so I am now officially CCSK stamped. Next on my list is becoming a trainer for that. Although CCSK is at the introductory level, it does […]
Who said the cloud was insecure?
It might be.
But for the same reasons that you can deploy faster in the cloud, you can also deploy secure solutions in the cloud faster.
Case in point: