IBM Announces FISMA Compliant Social Cloud – Will It Make Govt. Efficient?
After a soft release in early October, IBM has announced that they are releasing a social cloud targeting the US government agencies. This is a set of social and collaboration tools IBM is building on top of Federal Community Cloud they announced last year. Federal community cloud are secure, private cloud environments, part of IBM’s established [...]
Dropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined
For the past few weeks, Tech Media is buzzing with discussions on Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage) security. Dropbox from their modest beginnings have grown big with 25 Million users. Recently, a security engineer Derek Newton exposed a serious security issue with them where they store the machine hash in an unencrypted form in any machine [...]
Cloud Vendors Should Act Now
The Star Tribune from Minneapolis-St. Paul carried an article, few days back, on the issues related to keeping the data on the clouds. The author clearly identifies the issues we face in the society as we move further into the adoption of cloud computing technologies The danger is less that the cloud will be a Wild West than that [...]
