Taking your Office to the Cloud
Plenty of IT departments these days are looking for opportunities to move things out of their server rooms, and into someone else’s. This has led to the rise of popular services, including Google Apps and Office 365 – with their email, calendaring and other web-based services – present replacement options for software running on enterprise [...]
Comparing Cloud-Based Password Managers
Cloud-based password management apps are quickly becoming a popular solution to the myriad login credentials we all need to remember. Sure, you could use the same username and passwords for all the online services you use and the websites you visit, but that’s risky business. It’s far better to create new credentials for each network [...]
CSA’s STAR
Over the summer of 2011, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced a new initiative, which urged cloud service providers to voluntarily disclose their compliance with CSA-recommended best practices for cloud security. This initiative, known as the Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), was described by the CSA as “a new initiative to encourage transparency of [...]
Where do you keep your passwords?
We’ve all got a long list of credentials to remember: work email, personal email, social media accounts, online banking information… the list of different usernames and passwords goes on. Where do you keep your passwords – locally or in the cloud? And which is safer? With all the password management applications out there, this is [...]
Supercomputing with Amazon’s HPC Cloud
It’s no big secret that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a wildly popular option for high-performance cloud computing. These days, the EC2 is able to run many of the applications that previously needed a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. While Amazon’s EC2 is able to meet most general purpose [...]
