Amazon’s four tips to make sure your cloud is secure

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	Amazon's four tips to make sure your cloud is secure Amazon Web Services has a program named Trusted Advisor that provides customers with advice on the best way to use the company’s IaaS cloud services. Today, the company made four checks that Trusted Advisor performs free for all users.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 10 Most Powerful IaaS Companies Trusted Advisor has 33 tests that it performs on customers’ AWS cloud deployments, and it adds to those occasionally. These range from setting up notifications from Trusted Advisor, to setting access management policies, reviewing recent changes and usage, ensuring AWS virtual machines are appropriately sized to providing visual breakdowns of AWS usage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ConnectIT Top Reasons to Attend ConnectIT - New York - Aug 21 Get the latest research on private cloud, data management and storage technologies. Meet with a range of solution providers to advance your data strategy. Learn about the latest solutions in a fast-paced round of presentations. Network with other data-, cloud- and storage-oriented IT professionals. Register today. In this Issue Architectural Firm Puts Giant Data Files in the Cloud New products of the week 08.04.2014 'Provider Sprawl' Complicates Government Move to Cloud INSIDER 5 Big Data projects that could change your life Microsoft ordered to turn over customer data stored in the cloud WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Lowering Management Costs to Enable the Dynamic Data Center Today's business consumers require rapid access to new tools, applications and services (mobile, social, analytics) and have become impatient with the slow application development/testing cycles and the inefficiency of today's data centers. Learn more! Architectural Firm Puts Giant Data Files in the Cloud A global architectural firm sees big advantages in putting building design data in a cloud-based storage service. The results: lower costs and easier collaboration. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Taking Mobile Delivery to the Next Level Don't let poor performance and inadequate security constrain your enterprise mobility initiatives. Accelerate and protect your mobile workspaces with innovative NetScaler MobileStream technology from Citrix. Read Now New products of the week 08.04.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as EMC and RSA. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Deliver Better Service and Support, More Efficiently People and businesses can do amazing things when technology runs at its best. Changing requirements and expectations have placed new demands on IT; now it's time for a new approach to service and support. Learn More 'Provider Sprawl' Complicates Government Move to Cloud In spite of a nearly 4-year-old mandate to prioritize cloud computing technologies within the federal government, that transition has been slow to take shape, with officials continuing to express concerns about how to manage cloud deployments and uncertainty about navigating the maze of commercial providers.Gerald Chelak, director of the technical service division at the GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, says his agency is "100 percent committed to cloud" but admits that federal CIOs struggle to keep up with what he describes as "cloud service provider sprawl."MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: How to build a private cloud When asked in a recent panel discussion how IT workers can keep on top of an ever-expanding galaxy of service providers and products, Chelak quipped, "Spend weekends."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER 5 Big Data projects that could change your life Most over-hyped technology trends wear out their welcome pretty quickly, which should make skeptics among us wary about Big Data. However, while Big Data is being touted as the latest trend that will change the world, the skeptics aren’t as, well, skeptical as they were about cloud and social.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Microsoft ordered to turn over customer data stored in the cloud In a decision that could have broad privacy implications, a federal court in New York Thursday ordered Microsoft to comply with a U.S. government demand for a customer's emails stored on a company server in Dublin, Ireland. The decision upholds an earlier magistrate court decision.In an oral ruling, District Court Judge Loretta Preska rejected Microsoft's argument that a U.S search warrant does not extend beyond the country's borders."The production of that information is not an intrusion on the foreign sovereign," Courthouse News reported Judge Preska as saying. "It is incidental at best," Preska noted, adding that the magistrate court order was not an extra territorial application of U.S. law.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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