Cloud White Papers

A CIO’s Guide to Hybrid Cloud Performance

The advent of cloud computing offers new choices in architecting IT infrastructure for the best possible blend of performance, availability, cost, and control. As a result, there will be both consolidation to fewer data centers and migration of selected applications and data to more cost efficient public cloud services. A critical requirement for this transition is the ability to integrate public and private services with optimized connectivity to build a flexible hybrid cloud environment.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
ciohybridcloud.pdf		1591 Kb

Cloud Computing Security Issues: Assessing the General Risk and Threat Environments

Cloud computing is not new, but its increased use by greater numbers of organizations for a variety of purposes presents new sets of opportunities and challenges.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
cloudsecurityissues.pdf		695 Kb

The Federal Cloud Security Challenge - A View from the Front Lines

Cloud computing delivers hosted services over the Internet, providing shared resources, software, and information to an organization “on demand.” This type of a computing model makes sense because it shifts the management burden from the information technology (IT) organization, providing faster, cheaper, more efficient, and greener systems in the process. Given the government’s focus on eliminating waste, providing a more effective way of conducting its business, and offering better service to the citizen, a cloud computing model can deliver substantial results.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
federalcloudsecurity.pdf		462 Kb

Capitals in the Clouds Part III – Recommendations for Mitigating Risks: Jurisdictional, Contracting and Service Levels

Based on one recent national survey of state CIOs, cloud computing is an essential ingredient of a cost saving recipe for state government. Adoption or planned adoption is almost universal and growing.1 NASCIO’s earlier briefs in this series provided foundational concepts and discussed data management issues related to cloud computing. Cloud computing, or the sharing of resources across the state government enterprise, offers the promise for significant savings, operational efficiencies, and reduction in IT capital investment. All of the benefits of cloud computing are exploited further as state governments begin to create interstate collaboratives that join state government enterprise operations. Collaborative models involve state and local government, federal/state/local government, and even international collaboratives. Such collaborative efforts will only increase, and the rationale for these collaborative efforts are fairly obvious. Not only as cost saving and cost elimination efforts, but also from a “connectedness” perspective – something government has been desperately trying to achieve within homeland security, law enforcement and first responder community for the last decade. This issue brief will continue the exploration of some of the key issues, components and potential solutions that should be included for consideration in evaluating and planning for cloud services.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
capitalsintheclouds.pdf		2531 Kb

Federal Government Cloud Computing Survey

In February, InformationWeek Government and InformationWeek Analytics surveyed federal IT pros to gauge their agencies’ plans for cloud computing. Our 2011 Federal Government Cloud Computing Survey shows a big jump in the use of cloud services, with 29% of respondents indicating that their agencies are using cloud services, up ten points from a year ago. Another 29% say their agencies will tap into the cloud within 12 months, which means that cloud adoption should surpass the 50% mark at some point in the year ahead.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
fedgovcloudsurvey.pdf		1191 Kb

Security in Public and Private Cloud Infrastructures

This paper examines the current state of cloud computing security and
details common security measures deployed in the industry. Potential
cloud customers should research vendor security measures and receive
detailed product information to help them make final cloud computing
purchases. While security is important, businesses should be aware of
common security myths and misperceptions concerning cloud-based
computing. This paper details the Joyent Smart Technology solutions for
cloud computing use cases and how Joyent improves cloud security
when compared to traditional techniques.

Attachments:
File	Description	File size
securitypublicprivatecloud.pdf		706 Kb

Start
Prev
1
2
3
Next
End

Page 1 of 3