Comments on: You Say Cloud Computing, I Say Tomato

By: John Pescatore

John Pescatore — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:54:07 +0000

That’s pretty much option (2) above – specify a higher level of security or do it locally where you can check. Trying to secure a piece of Google or Amazon’s cloud service on your own is going to be tough. It is just storage, you can encrypt the data before using cloud storage. But if you are using cloud processing, your software has to run on their processors and generally your data has to run through them in the clear. Now, you can specify security conditions for any processing elements to be used but you can’t really secure it yourself.

By: Route B

Route B — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:32:47 +0000

Or you could secure a piece of the factory farm yourself… http://blog.elasticserver.com/2008/12/vpn-cubed-technical-overview.html

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:07:36 +0000

Link didn’t seem to take in the last comment: http://www.appistry.com/blogs/sam/the-blind-men-and-cloud

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:06:30 +0000

Hi John. I enjoyed this post. It reminded me of one by Appistry’s Sam Charrington (twitter.com/samcharrington) taking on the challenge of defining what cloud computing is:

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