BIG Data Technology Maturity Scale

BIG Data Analytics Technology Maturity Scale

keep data secure with cloud computing

A big company is working on a new project that requires cloud computing.  If they utilize their private network they can reasonably assume their data to be secure, given that all protocols with remote access are followed or the private network does not allow remote access.

you can just encrypt everything, and use it as a storage-as-a-service. In other cases, more and more vendors are letting customers deep dive into facilities and to see exactly how the data is being secured. It’s never absolute, but then again, security never is. Just have to determine the acceptable risk and work from there. The Microsoft, Amazon, RackSpace’s of the world likely won’t give you this “inner” peak, but often smaller vendors will.
-Michael
Federated Identity Management, Proper Encryption techniques with Key Management for Data, Network Security measures, Virtualization Security and Physical Security are main areas while considering Cloud Computing.

future of cloud computing services

Cloud computing could have a huge bearing on how we do IT. Even if companies continue to run their own systems in-house, they might develop and test applications in the cloud rather than buy their own systems for the purpose.

Off-site disaster recovery centres will start to look like a waste of money when cloud-based services offer the necessary backup without the up-front cost.

But the services need to be easier to use. The Eli Lilly researchers had to configure their own servers manually, but in the future, that kind of service could be automated with new servers coming on stream automatically to cope with the demand.

Identity and access management will also take on a new importance as more collaboration takes place in the cloud, and where collaborative activities may be very short, lasting minutes rather than years.
"The old model, which assumes that everyone inside your silo is trustworthy and where you build an Active Directory for those players to use resources inside your organisation, is dead or dying. We have to find ways to change it," Seccombe said.


Politics and regulation will also play a part in how we use the cloud. Personal information is governed by local jurisdictions, and in many cases cannot be legally stored in another part of the world. As Seccombe found when looking at sites like patientslikeus.com, he could not deal with them and be compliant unless they could guarantee that European patient information stayed in Europe.

The answer, he says, may be to give data a metatag that defines where it can reside, and which forces it to self-destruct if it goes outside the prescribed area.

Source:http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1348807/Benefits-of-cloud-computing-services-and-the-risks

Cloud Computing Layers

Layers of Cloud Computing Technology

Jericho envisages this potential as a series of layers as follows:

• Value/Outcomes
• Process
• Software
• Platform
• Infrastructure

Source: Jericho Forum