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Three dangers you need to know about clouds in three minutes or less

Three dangers you need to know about clouds in three minutes or less. Bob Gourley. June 2011. Danger Number One. Remember when the word SOA was hot and useful? Then the defense/ intel /industry complex began to over hype it and the term lost much meaning

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Three dangers you need to know about clouds in three minutes or less

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  1. Three dangers you need to know about clouds in three minutes or less Bob Gourley June 2011

  2. Danger Number One • Remember when the word SOA was hot and useful? • Then the defense/intel/industry complex began to over hype it and the term lost much meaning • The same seems to be happening in cloud

  3. Danger Number Two • Cloud Computing holds great potential to significantly improve the cyber security posture of organizations of all size and even the nation • But it also holds the potential to doom us all. • If security is engineered in, I have no doubt it will be positive • If it is ignored and tacked on at the end or too late in the process I have no doubt it will be hurtful.

  4. Danger Number Three • There is a danger of paralysis by analysis • Techies have been telling you about cloud computing for 6 years now, so why are we just now kicking off all these studies? • President’s commissions • DSB • INSA • TechAmerica • USDI • DNI • OMB

  5. Mitigating All Three Dangers • Ignore hype: Do not let ANY IT company or defense integrator or consultancy tell you what cloud computing is. • Try to follow the NIST definition of cloud computing if possible, and if you don’t like that definition, work with them to change it. • At a minimum, capture your own definition in writing (that’s better than using an IT firms words). • Engineer in identity management and enhanced encryption and extensive backup/logging/audits. • Don’t let any study or board or panel slow you down. Field real capabilities right away and don’t slow down for any study.

  6. What I’m Studying Now • Long ago I studied: • Mainframes • Workstations • PCs • Client Server Architectures • Internetworking • SOA • Cloud • It is still good to track those, but everyone seems to be all over those now. I’m moving on. Now I’m into: • Big Data

  7. Please help with your thoughts/input/questions E-mail:  bob@crucialpointllc.com Blog:  http://ctovision.com Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/bobgourley Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc:  See the blog. 

  8. Pace of Technology Development “Moore’s Law”        Computing doubles every 18 months “Fiber Law”             Communication capacity doubles every 9 months “Storage Law”         Storage doubles every 12 months “Greg’s Law”           Number of cores on a chip doubles every 24 months “Swatch’s Law”       Build it quick and get it out there and see if they like it “Gourley’s Law”      No one can name a law after himself, except this one

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