CloudBus

Last week I had an opportunity to address some of the finest CISO's in India about the Cloud Security Alliance and Securing Cloud Computing . Interacting with these CISO's convinced me that they have the potential to be future CEO's as Business is adopts Cloud Computing for agility and economics. As business moves to the cloud for  computing  IT GRC will be a key driver for acceptance of Cloud Computing. The CISO will be like a large tree protecting the organization from vulnerabilities and ensuring  business continuity in the Cloud. CISO is like a large tree providing protection . The Wikipedia defines the Influence of the CISO. Typically, the CISO's influence reaches the whole organization. Responsibilities include: Information security  and  information assurance Information  regulatory compliance  (e.g., US  PCI DSS ,  FISMA ,  GLBA ,  HIPAA ; UK  Data Protection Act 1998 ; Canada  PIPEDA ) In...

IT leaders give tell me the cloud is complex, security is suspect and it is another great marketing gimmick; I am happy with virtualized servers. But there is a growing tribe of innovators around the world who are building and leveraging on the cloud, the Facebook issues spurs them on since they see a wonderful opportunity for creating value from deploying on the cloud. AWS day at Mumbai  There are some outstanding business leaders who are using the cloud for agility, innovation and operational cost saving, there are companies who recognize cloud computing as a strategic business tool. There are a number of these corporate successes I have shared via Tweeter (http://www.twitter.com/subramanianls), but of merit is the cloud based NYSE trading platform and the Citibank private cloud. NYSE has democratized trading with its cloud offering and Citibank has saved costs and  become agile with its private cloud migration. I bel...