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The overall theme this year at the RSA 2010 Conference in San Francisco that surrounded the conference was Information Security in Cloud Technologies how to prevent the Cloud Technologies from raining on everyone's parade. The article that I am highlighting in this blog "Research Challenges in Enterprise Cloud Computing: It is important to highlight cloud computing research challenges from an enterprise perspective because cloud computing is not simply about technological improvement of data centers but a fundamental change in how IT is provisioned and used."
Another interesting insight about this article is the inclusion of Nichols Carr's book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google" noting that in the earily 1900's companies maintained their own power plants even though it was not their main expertise and how companies are maintaining their own Data Centers even though it is not their primary expertise. It is interesting though that last week on CBS 60 minutes broadcast the topic was how Cloud Computing providers are leading the way to provide their own green technology power plants.
The effects on IT and Security roles in their relationships with the user community and service providers will continue to evolve, as IT departments must make sure their cloud services can be migrated or failed over between service providers should one cloud service provider go out of business, as well as issues concerning certification, interoperability, API's between cloud vendors as well as SLA management, Privacy Rights Protection, and Intellectual Property Protection. "It it not clear "whether a cloud will be considered to legally be in one designated location [...] or in every location that has a data center that is part of the cloud"
These research challenges are interdisciplinary in nature, and there is a need for more co-operation between researchers, cloud users, and service providers.
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Research Challenges in Enterprise Cloud Computing
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