The key issue unfolding at that time was the transfer of risk that resulted from moving to a cloud environment and the obstacles to security, performance and licensing that would need to evolve. But ...

Coming from a technical background, when I hear the word "standards," I tend to think of things that usually go by strings of numbers (802.11), inscrutable abbreviations (USB), or at best a slightly ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and ...

According to one study conducted by the CSA and the IEEE, the evolution of cloud computing has increased the need for cloud-specific security standards. The CSA-IEEE survey of hundreds of IT ...

This week has brought two fascinating and contradictory perspectives about how large IT organizations view cloud computing–and how they’re responding to the messy muddle that is today’s cloud ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will host a Cloud Summit on May 20 with federal agencies and the private sector with the intent to develop data interoperability, portability and ...

For the practice to become widespread, the federal government must develop common processes to ensure agencies don't duplicate inefficiencies from data centers. Standards for security, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have entered into a formal liaison agreement. The CSA is a not-for-profit ...

Cloud security is still one of the key hindrances in adopting cloud computing services, especially as pertaining to the public cloud. With the public cloud market expected to triple from $12.1 billion ...

Cloud computing is still in its infancy and standards need to be developed around the emerging technology, several experts said today at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing ...

The Open Cloud Consortium is trying to improve cloud performance and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together Everyone’s talking about ...