Freelance Word Punk

[THIS SITE IS NO LONGER BEING UPDATED - IF YOU HAVE ENDED UP HERE YOU ARE IN THE WRONG PLACE, PLEASE CLICK WWW.HAPPYGEEK.COM TO VIEW NEW CONTENT BY DAVEY WINDER]

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Open source cloud offers another route to better security

The news that IBM is going to shift all its cloud services and software to an open cloud architecture comes as no great surprise. After all, it had already signalled an intent to open up the cloud when it joined the OpenStack Foundation last year as a 'platinum' sponsor and then went on to contribute to the codebase. The announcement will, of course, be a real boost for the whole open cloud movement when those 5,000 or so IBM private cloud customers are migrated to an OpenStack-based architecture. It may not be surprising, after all IBM has needed to do something strategically if it is going to ever really be able to compete with AWS, but is the move to open standards secure?
Newer Post Older Post Home

Blog Archive




Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.