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ABI Research to Host “Mobile Cloud Computing” Webinar

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The limited capabilities of mass market mobile devices and the
restricted expansion of mobile applications due to mobile OS
fragmentation are the two primary barriers to the explosive growth of
mobile applications. But, asks ABI Research’s Mark Beccue, “What if you
could build applications based on web standards, move the processing
associated with the applications off of the mobile device to powerful,
centralized platforms and then use the Internet to access the
applications, in essence moving these applications into the ‘cloud’?”
On December 10, ABI Research will host a Webinar on the subject of
“Mobile Cloud Computing,” hosted by key members of the firm’s expert
consumer mobility team: Practice Director Dan Shey and Senior Analyst
Mark Beccue. It will address, among other topics, these critical
questions:
What applications, products and services could leverage mobile cloud
computing?
What are the forces driving developers towards cloud-based
applications? What are the inhibitors and limitations?
What applications have already been developed?
What companies are building the foundations of this transformative
technology?
The seventh in ABI Research’s “Stay Connected” Webinar series, this
informative and enlightening session will explore the types of mobile
cloud applications that will succeed, and the drivers and inhibitors
affecting the growth of mobile cloud computing. It will review case
studies for both consumer and enterprise applications, present ABI
Research’s thoughts on where the market is going, and offer forecasts
and recommendations for interested players.
The Webinar will take place Thursday December 10 at 11:00 US Eastern
Daylight Time.
The event is free. Please register at: http://www.abiresearch.com/webinar/register.jsp.
To understand more about the market for mobile cloud computing, please
see ABI Research’s Mobile
Cloud Computing (http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1003385)research
report.
ABI Research provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of
trends in global connectivity and other emerging technologies. From
offices in North America, Europe and Asia, ABI Research’s worldwide team
of experts advise thousands of decision makers through 28 research and
advisory services. Est. 1990. For more information visit www.abiresearch.com,
or call +1.516.624.

Source: Business Wire

CSS Go Cloud services to be presented at AWS Workshop

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CSS to Drive Technology Innovation with Cloud Computing

November 9, 2009 /India PRwire/ — CSS, a leading technology operations management organization headquartered in San Jose, CA, is set to co-host the Amazon Web Services Cloud Workshop 2009 in Chennai on November 10th at the Tidel Park Auditorium.

The AWS workshop is conducted by the AWS User Group in Chennai and is a platform for system integrators, ISVs, software architects and technical decision makers in product engineering to understand the unique characteristics of the AWS cloud.

The highlight of the event is the CSS workshop on the Go Cloud Services by the Go Cloud Project Management from CSS Labs. This would be the first time such a workshop is conducted by CSS specifically for the AWS user community. CSS Labs develops solutions for all platforms, adapting a customer’s existing software for the cloud and supporting those implementations across multiple virtual environments.

Developed by CSS Labs, the Research and Development arm of CSS, the organization has recently launched Go Cloud, an entire suite of platforms and services based on cloud computing, that will help companies to become cloud-enabled. The Go Cloud initiative includes innovative, web-based tools to seamlessly leverage the Amazon Cloud Services and maximize the potential of cloud computing technology across companies; and powerful, flexible in-house platforms to effectively enable cloud-based services.

According to Nick Sharma, CEO, CSS Corp, “Cloud Computing is significantly changing the way business is conducted across sectors, today. CSS Corp is established as a player with a strong repertoire of adopting to new technology platforms and innovating, with an objective of enhancing our clients’ OPEX optimization.” CSS is also a pioneer in Remote Infra Management services (i.e. Infrastructure as a Service) and one of the earliest adopters of cloud computing technology.

For more information on registration details for the AWS workshop, visit www.awschennai.in

For more information on CSS and the CSS Go Cloud Initiative, visit www.csscorp.com

Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire

Notes to Editor

About CSS

CSS, a global technology solutions provider, focuses on IT operations management services aimed at optimizing its customer’s IT operations. CSS offers solutions in the area of Enterprise and Consumer Technology Support, Application Lifecycle Management and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The company has proven expertise in developing; supporting and managing its customer’s entire technology stack (servers, networks, systems and technologies as well as applications running on them) on a 24×7 basis globally. In addition, CSS has an impeccable record of delivering the whole gamut of technical and customer support services for both enterprise and consumer technology products and applications on a global basis. With a unique “100% referenceable customers” mission statement, the company lives and breathes operations support and customer satisfaction. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, CSS currently has global operations centers in Chennai (India), Utah (USA), Poland (Europe) and in the Philippines. CSS has over 80 customers including Industry leaders such as Alcatel-Lucent, Sun Microsystems, & Blackboard Inc as its long term customers. CSS is a professionally managed, privately held company with investments from SAIF, Goldman Sachs and Sierra Ventures.

CSS Labs is at the forefront of reshaping technology evolution and setting trends in cloud computing and aligning them with business demands. Through CSS Labs, CSS develops cloud computing solutions that help its customers meet real-world business challenges. Instead of offering only out-of-the-box options, which can be more expensive, CSS Labs’ customized solutions allows companies to cost-effectively plan and implement a cloud computing strategy that is unique to their needs, thereby driving OPEX optimization and reducing CAPEX. Covering all platforms, they also help adapt a customer’s existing software for the cloud and supporting those implementations across multiple virtual environments.

About CSS Go Cloud:

The CSS Go Cloud initiative includes innovative, web-based tools such as CloudBuddy Personal, CloudBuddy Analytics, CloudBuddy Smart, and CloudBuddy Enterprise to seamlessly leverage the Amazon Cloud Services and maximum potential of cloud computing technology across companies; and powerful, flexible in-house platforms such as CloudTestGo, Cloud Vault, Cloud Wizard to effectively enable cloud-based services.

  • CloudBuddy Personal: A tool for Amazon-S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) users to readily store and manage data on the cloud through an easy-to-use virtual desktop.
  • CloudBuddy Analytics: An open source web-based tool with an intuitive interface that quickly generates exhaustive, accurate statistical reports for clients.
  • CloudBuddy Smart: An ANT-based automated deployment tool, specifically designed and developed for managing a client’s cloud infrastructure.
  • CloudBuddy Enterprise: This helps clients to share their Amazon S3 to a large group of users without facing the hassles of taking up storage space and a lack of role-based access privileges.
  • CloudTestGo: An on-demand, pay-as-you-go, performance testing solution that enables clients to load test all their products, including web and non-web applications and services, in the cloud, on a per need basis. CloudTestGo allows clients to swiftly and cost- effectively create a real world load-testing environment, without having to invest in complex infrastructures, new hardware or expensive software licensing.
  • Cloud Vault: a service that ensures the smooth transition of clients’ email archives into a cloud environment while alleviating the challenges of the technology involved.
    • Cloud Wizard: A cloud-based Lotus Notes Codes Generation tool that helps reduce the time taken by clients to develop Lotus Notes applications.

About AWS

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided highly reliable and scalable infrastructure for deploying web-scale solutions, with minimal support and administration costs, and more flexibility than the traditional data center. Amazon Web Services is a pioneer and market leader in Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) market. AWS offers a rich set of Application Programming Interface (API) to consume its infrastructure as well as other related services.

For more information, please contact:

  • Lata Srinivasan
  • Head – Corporate Communication
  • (M) 09566099326

IceWEB Acquires Strategic Interest in Social Sourcing Company VOIS.com

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VOIS, Inc., http://www.vois.com
(pronounced Voice) (OTCBB:VOIS)
(OTCBB:VOISW)
today announced IceWEB, Inc.™, www.IceWEB.com,
a leading provider of purpose built appliances and building blocks for
cloud storage networks, has acquired a strategic interest in VOIS, Inc.
In exchange for a strategic interest in the publicly traded stock of
VOIS, VOIS will receive cash, and access to distribute IceMAIL,
IcePORTAL
and IceSECURE
to their existing and prospective new user base, and IceWEB’s cloud
storage network.
“This agreement provides significant benefit for both companies,” said
Mark B. Lucky, CFO for IceWEB, who has taken a Board position on VOIS
and will chair the Audit Committee. It will allow VOIS.COM
to leverage and benefit from the sizeable investment IceWEB has made
over the years in their SaaS and Cloud Computing infrastructure.A Cloud
Storage environment could be used to deploy an incubator area for the
Open Source community on which developers can build and test the next
generation of cloud computing applications and infrastructure tools.”
“A VOIS.com and IceWEB collaboration represents a progression for VOIS
to evolve from social networking, to social sourcing, to
business-to-business adoption of Web 2.0 techniques,” said Craig
Agranoff, Site Manager for VOIS. “We’re excited about the prospect of
broadening our horizons and reaching out to the software development and
cloud computing ecosphere. Since our inception we have focused on
bringing those who provide products and services together with those who
require them. This just makes sense.”
Gary Dunham, IceWEB’s SVP of Product Development & Engineering said,
“The underlying infrastructure of VOIS.com’s social sourcing network
which presently serves over 115,000 members, is one that can be
leveraged, with minimal redesign or investment to become a central focal
point for the sourcing and provisioning of Cloud Computing services and
on-demand marketplace. Not only can VOIS.com become a marketplace for
Cloud Computing services, it can also represent a broad and diverse
talent pool of visionary technical people worldwide who can provide
services such as software and API development and integration, Project
Planning and deployment services, security analysis and evaluation,
custom programming, open-source code modifications and much more. By
providing compute resources to the development community which created
much of the foundation of the ‘cloud’ as we know it today, products like
XEN, OpenFiler, Eucalyptus, Nexenta, Red Hat, Nimbus and others, we can
help foster, enrich and accelerate the development and adoption of this
important new computing paradigm shift.”
About VOIS, Inc.
VOIS.com (pronounced Voice) is a social commerce website that combines
the power of social networking with an online marketplace for
professional freelance and on-demand services. At VOIS, individuals and
businesses have the tools to either Post Work, Find Work or Network as
well as staff projects. VOISs social sourcing model connects a global
network of talent, allowing individuals and businesses around the world
to find and manage work cost-effectively. VOIS is publicly traded under
the symbols VOIS, VOISW. — www.vois.com
Safe Harbor Act Disclaimer: This release contains forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934 that are based upon
current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions
about future events. In addition, other factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially are discussed in the Companys most recent
Form 10-QSB and Form 10-KSB filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
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Source: Business Wire

IBM Advances Cloud Computing in Education; Unveils IBM Cloud Academy

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Provides a global forum for Higher Ed and K-12 innovation, collaboration and research.
DENVER, CO .- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today launched the IBM Cloud Academy, a global forum for educators, researchers and information technology (IT) personnel from the education industry to pursue cloud computing initiatives, develop skills and share best practices for reducing operating costs while improving quality and access to education.
IBM announced at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference that 17 educational institutions worldwide are the first to participate in the Cloud Academy. United States-based institutions include George Mason University; Georgia State University; Gwinnett County Public Schools; Marist College; New York University; North Carolina State University; Pike County Schools; The Executive Leadership Foundation’s Technology Transfer Project – a collaborative effort for Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. International institutions include Beijing University of Technology in China; Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Qatar University (QU) and Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) in Qatar; Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon in France; Ozyegin University in Turkey; Nanyang Technical University in Singapore; and Victoria University in Australia.
Cloud computing makes it easier for those in the education industry, including students, faculty and administrators, to gain immediate access to a wide range of new educational resources and research applications and tools said Michael King, vice president, IBM Global Education Industry. The IBM Cloud Academy will advance awareness and adoption of cloud computing, including best practices for education and research institutions.”
IBM Cloud Academy Advocates Collaboration and Innovation
The IBM Cloud Academy will enable these institutions and other participants to collaborate using an IBM-managed cloud, available via the Internet, lowering barriers to entry for the development and contribution of subject matter expertise. Through the Academy, members can create working groups on areas of interest to the education industry, “jam” on new innovations for clouds in education-related areas with IBM developers, work jointly on technical projects across institutions, share research findings, and exchange new ideas for research. Participants are also encouraged to innovate to further advance cloud computing by preparing education-focused open source software for clouds, integrating cloud provisioning and de-provisioning services, validating content for compliance with accessibility standard, and leveraging IBM cloud offerings for teaching, learning, research and administration.
A vital aspect of the IBM Cloud Academy will be the development of new technologies and research methods. The IBM Cloud Academy gives participants the ability to work with elite researchers in IBM labs throughout the world, many of whom are working on cloud initiatives in education, to extend the boundaries of cloud computing in education.
IBM will also collaborate with participants of the IBM Cloud Academy on integrating cloud technologies into their campus and district infrastructures, including IBM’s virtualized server and storage hardware, Tivoli Provisioning and Automation software for management of cloud environments, campus and student computer lab management with the Virtual Computing Laboratory project, and cloud integration services from IBM’s global services organizations.
IBM’s Cloud Academy leverages IBM’s Academy of Technology, whose membership consists of IBM top technical leaders from around the world who are working in research, hardware and software development, manufacturing, and services.
Participants will have access to IBM’s public cloud services, including LotusLive for administration collaboration, IBM Desktop Cloud Services, delivery services for Virtual Computing Labs, and Corporate Citizenship Education Projects, such as PowerUp, Forbidden City and TryScience.
One of the tools hosted by LotusLive is the online version of Innov8 2.0, IBM’s flagship ’serious game,’ which is integrated with BPM BlueWorks. Shown at EDUCAUSE, Innov8 2.0 is being used by more than 100 universities worldwide and features real-world business scenarios where the goals are to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction while minimizing carbon emissions. Challenges in the game include managing a supply chain, reducing congestion in a city, and optimizing call center queues.
IBM’s Cloud Computing and Education Initiatives
The IBM Cloud Academy represents a continuation of the cloud computing projects that IBM has initiated over the past two years. These programs provide a forum for collaboration, research and innovation, as well as a showcase for the work and projects IBM has completed with the education industry. Some highlights include:
* In October of 2007, IBM and Google teamed up to help university students gain the skills needed to program cloud applications.
* The two companies have since joined forces with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enable more students to participate in the IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative through grants provided from NSF through its Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program.
* IBM continues to work with universities and educational institutions worldwide, giving students access to cloud computing technologies to help them complete research projects that aid in the development of remote regions and socio-economic conditions all over the globe.
The charter members of the IBM Cloud Academy will work with IBM to define the final structure of the academy, which will open for general membership early in 2010.

Source: WEBWIRE

Fujitsu Unveils Infrastructure Products to Build Enterprise Cloud

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Fujitsu today announced the gradual roll-out in Japan, starting today, of new products and services that are compatible with multiple platforms and vendor environments to employ their on-site mission-critical systems as enterprise clouds. The company will strengthen products that enable system optimization through cloud technologies, such as virtualization and automation, and offer support services.

Fujitsu has also strengthened its cloud computing-related sales activities supporting structure, offering consistent business support for customers, ranging from the building of their on-site enterprise clouds to the utilization of cloud services.

Furthermore, the company will be establishing a new Cloud Infrastructure Center to provide customers with support services for systematizing and standardizing the cloud technology essential to building the enterprise cloud.

By providing a complete array of solutions, ranging from products to system constructions, operations, and maintenance services, Fujitsu can reliably and quickly build up a system optimized for each customers management and operations while reducing IT system costs.

In order to help customers employ their on-site mission-critical systems as enterprise clouds compatible with multi-vendors and multi-platforms, Fujitsu is offering a new array of platform products, as well as related support and services.

- Platform Products for Virtualization and Automation
Enhances functionality for existing hardware and software products to enable system optimization. Commences offering the software for automating server operations, the BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager, in collaboration with BMC Software.

- Supporting Structure and Services
Enhances cloud computing-related sales activities supporting structure while providing support services for enterprise cloud constructions.

Platform Products for Virtualization and Automation

1. Server Platform Products

The following products provide a virtualization environment tailored to the customers operational resources:
- PRIMERGY PC server, PRIMEQUEST mission critical IA server, SPARC Enterprise UNIX server
- IPCOM network server

2. Storage Platform Products
The following products allow for the virtualization of disks, volumes, and file systems as well as efficient storage management and operations:
- ETERNUS DX60/DX80/4000/8000/NR1000F/VS storage systems

3. Management Software for Visualizing Virtual and Physical Environments
(1) ServerView Resource Coordinator VE
ServerView Resource Coordinator VE enables the visualization of physical and virtual server environments while unifying server monitoring and operability.

- Quick and accurate situation assessment without distinguishing the types of physical and virtual platforms; consolidates operations for starting, stopping, and rebooting servers.

(2) ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser
ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser enables the visualization of physical and virtual server environments while improving operation speed and minimizing human errors.

- Simplifies storage installation process and disk allocation confirmation

4. BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager (Software Products for Operations Automation)
BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager configures server environments in a multi-vendor, multi-platform setting, including parameters for OS, middleware, and applications.

- Automates configurations for OS, middleware, as well as applications across multi-vendor and multi-platform environments.
- Implements the following when combined with ServerView Resource Coordinator VE:
– Operating cost reduction achieved by automating updates and modifications involving the installation and configuration of OS, middleware and applications according to operational standards.
– Ensures system stability by automating server maintenance operations including system recovery, and patch management and distribution

About Support Structure and Services

1. Enhanced Supporting Structure for System Optimization

(1) Strengthening Sales Activities Supporting Structure
Fujitsu has strengthened its cloud computing-related sales activities supporting structure and operates a one-stop support center to help customers with enterprise cloud constructions as well as cloud utilization services.

(2) New Cloud Infrastructure Center
Fujitsus new center will provide support services for realizing infrastructure optimization. It will also develop and test infrastructure solutions for IT system constructions that utilize cloud technologies. The know-how gained through this process will be systemized and standardized and provided to customers.

2. Support Services

(1) Support Services for Optimizing Customers IT Infrastructure
Fujitsu will offer the following support services for infrastructure optimization under multi-platform, multi-vendor environments:
- Deployment workshops, planning, and assessment services
- System design and construction services, asset transition support services, operations management infrastructure design and construction services
- Operational support services, evaluation support services, and maintenance services
- Operational design services

(2) Enhanced menu of seminar, demonstration, and testing services
Fujitsu will offer a menu of seminars and demonstrations dealing with the enterprise cloud environment, giving customers a sense of how the transition from their current system to the deployment of an enterprise cloud might look.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.

Source: JCN Newswire

CA to Discuss Automation, Virtualization Management and Cloud Computing at Interop

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Three Executives to Participate in Four Panels Over Two Days
ISLANDIA, N.Y., CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that three executives in the company’s Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit will participate in four panel discussions at Interop. The business technology conference will be held in New York November 16-20, 2009.
Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy, will participate in a discussion entitled “Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer?” on Wednesday, November 18 at 4 p.m. ET. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates.
The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly 75 percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo, and that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don’t make some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new value-added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of losing control over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit functionality IT organizations can safely automate.
Elliot will also participate in a panel entitled “The People, Process And Technology Of Next Generation Data Centers” on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. ET. Following is summary of the session, which will be moderated by Doug Washburn, analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research.
Technologies like virtualization and automation tools are cornerstone to the next-generation data center (NGDC)—but without the proper processes and staff skills to manage them, tomorrow’s data center will be no better off than today’s. Likewise, even the right people and process fall short without sufficient technology investment that can minimize labor-intensive tasks. With that in mind, the NGDC is a collection of people, process and technology that support one another. This panel discussion will identify the key people, process and technology considerations to help data center managers plan for the NGDC today.
Derick Wong, senior director of product marketing, will participate in a discussion entitled “The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation” on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. Following is a description of the session, which will be moderated by Alistair Croll, principal analyst, Bitcurrent.
In a cloud environment, you don’t rack and stack servers anymore; instead, you click and drag them. This relieves IT operators of many physical chores, but it creates a new one: server sprawl. To deal with this, most cloud operations teams rely heavily on scripts that automate common functions such as setting up servers or migrating configurations. Those scripts, however, are often tailored to a particular cloud platform—so the same tools that were supposed to liberate IT have inadvertently locked it into a particular cloud environment. If scripting and automation are keys to the success of cloud models, they’re not getting the attention they deserve. This panel looks at scripting best practices, automation, and standardization.
Tanvir Hussain, senior vice president of product management, will participate in a panel entitled “The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management” on Thursday, November 19 at 10:15 a.m. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler.
Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage cloud computing.
CA will showcase solutions for business-driven automation, virtualization management and cloud computing, among others, in booth 228.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world’s leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA’s Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

Source: WEBWIRE

Cloud Computing Benefits and Risks Discussed in New ISACA Guidance

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Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a business information technology (IT) buzz word, but there is still much debate on what exactly it is and how it benefits enterprises.

October 29, 2009 /India PRwire/ — Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a business information technology (IT) buzz word, but there is still much debate on what exactly it is and how it benefits enterprises. A new white paper from ISACA, a nonprofit association of 86,000 global information technology professionals, clearly describes how enterprises can achieve greater efficiencies and mitigate new risks associated with cloud computing. The white paper, Cloud Computing: Business Benefits with Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives, is available as a free download from www.isaca.org/cloud.

Cloud computing offers enterprises the ability to reduce IT infrastructure costs through a model of paying for service on demand. This requires less upfront capital expenditure and allows businesses to benefit from the ability to efficiently ramp up and power down based on current needs, as well as the flexibility to introduce new IT services.

“One way of describing cloud computing is to compare it to a utility,” said Jeff Spivey , trustee for the IT Governance Institute, which is affiliated with ISACA, and director of Security Risk Management, Inc. “In the same way businesses pay for the amount of electricity, gas and water that they use, there is now the ability to pay for IT services based on how much is consumed.

” As with any new advancement, though, there are many facets to consider.

“The benefits of cloud computing are tremendous, but it also creates new risks and security concerns,” added Spivey. “Through cloud computing, IT services can be contracted through an external provider, so new governance and control approaches are needed to ensure flexibility, resilience and security.

” According to the white paper, in addition to the financial savings involved with cloud computing, one of this model’s strengths is for enterprises to streamline processes and increase innovation. This can translate into more reliable backup, more satisfied customers, increased scalability and possibly even higher margins.

While the risks associated with cloud computing may be similar to business IT risks already addressed, enterprises may need to adjust their policies and procedures to focus on the new dynamic environment. The white paper also delivers effective strategies for mitigating risks and addressing assurance issues related to cloud computing.

“The cloud represents a major change in the way computing resources will be utilized,” said Spivey. “By addressing many of these issues in advance, and with the involvement of a broad range of stakeholders, enterprises can gain significant advantage with appropriate control.”

In recognition of new risks around this emergent technology, ISACA has become an affiliate of the Cloud Security Alliance, which collaborated on this paper and will be involved in joint projects with ISACA in the future (www.cloudsecurityalliance.org).

Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire

Notes to Editor

About ISACA

With more than 86,000 constituents in more than 160 countries, ISACA (www.isaca.org) is a leading global provider of knowledge, certifications, community, advocacy and education on information systems assurance and security, enterprise governance of IT, and IT-related risk and compliance. Founded in 1969, ISACA sponsors international conferences, publishes the ISACA Journal, and develops international information systems auditing and control standards. It also administers the globally respected Certified Information Systems Auditor™ (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) designations.

ISACA developed and continually updates the COBIT, Val IT™ and Risk IT frameworks, which help IT professionals and enterprise leaders fulfill their IT governance responsibilities and deliver value to the business, and publishes the Business Model for Information Security.

For more information, please contact:

  • Pushpanjali Singh
  • Associate