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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The General Services Administration has reopened its cloud computing procurement and launched a new tool for agencies to collect information about cloud services. The agency posted last week an ...

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 ...