HPE has identified the five key capabilities necessary for securing a hybrid cloud environment: Data-centric security: Protecting data is the core of security and compliance controls. Data needs to be secured at rest, in motion and while in use. It should maintain an index with a searchable data format after it is protected and the encryption should be multi-layered. Dynamic infrastructure hardening: Just like on-premises machines, the cloud infrastructure needs to be updated and hardened […]
Cloud Architecture
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Openness in software and architectures is a big win for users. This truth is so widely recognized that a lot of vendors seem to favor using “open” as a sort of mantra even though they’re often not, well, open except in glancing and incidental ways. This is nowhere truer than with cloud computing. Having an open architecture and approach when building a cloud matters deeply. Only an open cloud allows customers to manage diverse infrastructures […]
Two recent events reminded us this spring that cloud computing infrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plagues traditional data center operations: everything fails, sooner or later. The failure modes of cloud vs. traditional data center architectures may differ in nature and frequency, but the threat is the same – outages, downtime, lost revenues and damaged customer trust. Ironically, these same recent events also highlight how cloud infrastructures, when managed correctly, actually […]
The military’s interest in virtualization tools for health care personnel originated well before the Defense Department began to lay the foundation for the Chicago and Washington Capitol super hospitals. An early example was at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va. In 2006, Acelera, a firm specializing in virtualization tools, was contracted by the hospital to solve problems that in-house doctors and shipboard clinicians had when trying to access AHLTA, DOD’s electronic health records system. […]
More and more companies are moving from traditional servers to virtual servers in the cloud, and many new service-based deployments are starting in the cloud. However, despite the overwhelming popularity of the cloud here, deployments in the cloud look a lot like deployments on traditional servers. Companies are not changing their systems architecture to take advantage of some of the unique aspects of being in the cloud. The key difference between remotely-hosted, virtualized, on-demand-by-API servers […]