This week has brought two fascinating and contradictory perspectives about how large IT organizations view cloud computing–and how they’re responding to the messy muddle that is today’s cloud ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and ...

The key issue unfolding at that time was the transfer of risk that resulted from moving to a cloud environment and the obstacles to security, performance and licensing that would need to evolve. But ...

According to one study conducted by the CSA and the IEEE, the evolution of cloud computing has increased the need for cloud-specific security standards. The CSA-IEEE survey of hundreds of IT ...

Enterprises should support the work of standards bodies that are creating specifications for APIs and other elements of connecting to cloud services. The cloud is a rapidly expanding IT solution, with ...

For the practice to become widespread, the federal government must develop common processes to ensure agencies don't duplicate inefficiencies from data centers. Standards for security, ...

Cloud security is still one of the key hindrances in adopting cloud computing services, especially as pertaining to the public cloud. With the public cloud market expected to triple from $12.1 billion ...

Ever feel that cloud computing sounds like a pile of acronyms, hidden fees and choices you are somehow meant to understand straight away? Many readers worry about cost, security and where their data ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have entered into a formal liaison agreement. The CSA is a not-for-profit ...

Coming from a technical background, when I hear the word "standards," I tend to think of things that usually go by strings of numbers (802.11), inscrutable abbreviations (USB), or at best a slightly ...

Cloud computing is still in its infancy and standards need to be developed around the emerging technology, several experts said today at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is trying to improve cloud performance and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together Everyone’s talking about ...