Over the last two days, I've seen a plethora (yes, Jefe, a plethora) of trade rag and blog articles espousing that The Cloud is more secure than an enterprise's datacenter and that Cloud security concerns are overblown.  I'd pick these things apart, but honestly, I've got work to do. <sigh> H...

I've waffled on how, or even if, I would write my critique of the Berkeley RAD Lab's paper titled "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing."  I think I've had a hard time deciding where the authors have their heads, hence the title.  Those of you who know me are probably chuckling at ...

Yes, yes. We've talked about this before here. Cisco is introducing a blade chassis that includes compute capabilities (heretofore referred to as a 'blade server.')  It also includes networking, storage and virtualization all wrapped up in a tidy bundle. So while that looks like a blade server (qua...

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished... I've had some fantastic conversations with folks over the last couple of weeks as we collaborated from the perspective of how a network and security professional might map/model/classify various elements of Cloud Computing. I just spent several hours with folks at Shm...

Okay.  I am teh lam3r.  I'd be intellectually dishonest if I didn't post this, and it's likely I'll revise it once I get to think about it more, but I've got to get it down.  Thanks to an innocent tweet from @botchagalupe I had an aneurysm epiphany.  Sort of ;) A little light went on in my head...

This post contains nothing particularly insightful other than giant sucking sound that's left a vacuum in terms of forward motion regarding security and virtualization. Why? Three things: There's an awful lot of focus moving from the (cough) mature space of server virtualization to the myriad of opt...

I just read the latest blog of Alistair Croll from GigaOm titled "Cloud Security: The Sky Is Falling!" in which he suggests that we pillow-hugging security wonks ought to loosen our death grips on our data because not only are we flapping our worry feathers for nothing, but security in "the Cloud" ...

I am sure that by now you’ve seen/heard a lot of rants about how insecure cloud technologies are, etc. What worries me is that these claims are made by people who have never worked with cloud technologies and therefore have no clue on the subject whatsoever. All of these claims actually have a...