Security Looms Large as Major Cloud Computing Issue for Enterprise IT

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March 18, 2009 02:00 PM EDT	Reads:	28,681

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With Sun's Open Cloud Platform announced today, the industry took one step closer toward virtual private data centers being a reality. But one key aspect that enterprises must quickly get up to speed on is not only how to protect clusters of servers to the cloud with a security perimeter. Anyone serious about deploying Enterprise IT to the cloud must understand the unique characteristics of cloud security and the challenges specific to compliance and governance.

This is widely understood in the industry. Patrick Kerpan, for example, CTO of CohesiveFT, comments:

"According to leading industry analysts, security is one of the gating factors preventing Enterprise adoption of cloud solutions. This session will outline key considerations when evaluating virtual cloud solutions and explore how companies can secure their assets in the cloud."

And Omer Trajman, Director of Field Engineering for Vertica, who is an authority on cloud-based databases and has helped customers with large-scale data warehouse database deployments like Verizon, Comcast, JP Morgan, and Vonage, agrees that for all the Cloud’s benefits, there are new considerations when it comes to application deployment and data security outside of the enterprise.

"When data is stored on your premises, access is strictly managed and guarded, and often the concern is securing your machines from external unauthorized access. Out in the cloud everything is networked and accessible, which requires a different approach," Trajman observes.

Kerpan and Trajman, along with a welter of their industry peers with special knowledge of security issues, are featured speakers at SYS-CON's upcoming 3-day Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York, where one of the tracks is specifically devoted to "Cloud Testing, Security & Management."

Among the 102 differerent breakout and general sessions on offer in New York (view Schedule here), the main security-focused sessions include:

Securing Enterprise Assets in the Cloud
Patrick Kerpan

Securing your Data in the Cloud
Omer Trajman

Enhanced Security Models for Machine Image Deployments
Glenn Brunette

Implementing Cloud Storage: Public or Private?
Sajai Krishna

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Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East is a three-day event, which is being held at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. It features a top-notch lineup of speakers from the leading industry players of the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications and services. The lineup includes, among others:

Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com (Keynote)
Dr Kristof Kloeckner - VP of Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM (Keynote)
Davis Douglas, Sr. VP, Cloud Computing, Sun (Keynote)
Vik Chaudhary - VP of Corporate Development, Keynote Systems
Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Russ Daniels - CTO of Cloud Services Strategy, HP
Doug Tidwell - Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Ajay Anand - Director of Grid Computing, Yahoo!
Martin Ingram - VP of Strategy AppSense
Jim Blakley - Director of Data Center Virtualization, Intel
Brian H. Prince - Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
Ronnie Thomson - Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Quark
Tim Crawford - Director of IT Operations, Stanford University
David Bernstein - VP & GM of Cloud Computing, Cisco
Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun
Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
Ken Oestreich - Vice President, Egenera
Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA
Warren Wilbee - Director of ISV Evangelism, Microsoft
Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov - Director of Business Strategy, VIRTERA
Patrick Kerpan - CTO, CohesiveFT
Jim Rymarczyk - Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM
Thorsten von Eicken - CTO and Co-Founder, RightScale
Owen Garrett - PM and Technologist, Zeus
Scott Sanchez - Chief Technology Architect, Unisys
Scott Wiener - Co-Founder & CTO, Cloud9 Analytics
Jeff Bauer - Creative Director, Forbes.com
Anthony Arrott - Special Assistant to the CTO, Trend Micro
Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
David Bressler - Principal Architect, Progress Software
Clod Barrera - Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM
Tien Tzuo - CEO, Zuora
Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
John Trembley - Vice President, Xeround
Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO, Cumulux
John Barr - COO & VP Engineering, Yieldex
William Fellows - Principal Analyst, The 451 Group
Kevin L. Jackson - Director of Business Development, Dataline
Bob Quinn - Founder, Chairman & CTO of 3Leaf Systems
Pau Garcia-Mila - Founder, eyeOS
David Linthicum - Editor-in-Chief, Virtualization Journal
Bryan Wade - Director of Channel Partnerships, ExactTarget
Bill McColl - Founder & CEO, Cloudscale
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Jon Pyke - Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys
Daniel Beveridge - Director of Virtualization Strategy, VIRTERA
JP Morgenthal - IT Architecture Consultant
John Gauntt - Founder, Media Dojo
Ed Sullivan - Founder & CEO, Aria Systems
Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
Simon Wardley - Software Services Manager, Canonical
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Michael Hill - VP Enteprise Initiatives, Sales, Services & Business Development, IBM
Steve Milroy - Solution Architect, OnTerra Systems
Prof Rich Wolski - University of California, Santa Barbara