In the recent Amazon AWS Newsletter, they asked the following: Some customers have asked us about ways to easily convert virtual machines from VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V to Amazon EC2 instances – and vice versa. If this is something that you’re interested in, we would like to hear from you. Please […]
The next session during the ISSA half-day seminar on Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security was on security best practices from a customer and vendor perspective. It featured Brian Engle, CIO of Temple Inland, and Rob Randell, CISSP and Senior Security Specialist at VMware, Inc. My notes from the presentation are below: Temple Inland Implementation – […]
Today the Austin ISSA and ISACA chapters held a half-day seminar on Cloud Computing and Virtualization Security. The introduction on cloud computing was given by Vern Williams. My notes on this topic are below: 5 Key Cloud Characteristics On-demand self-service Ubiquitous network access Location independent resource pooling Rapid elasticity Pay per use 3 Cloud Delivery […]
http://code.google.com/p/scalr/ For those of us getting into amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2), this is a really cool idea. The idea is that your load grows and a new node is ready to handle additional capacity. Once load lessens, boxes are turned off. Integrating this with box stats, response times, monitoring per service makes sense. I […]
