The intent of the blogs is to provide the thought leadership for readers seeking to create a sound strategy for exploiting cloud computing for the enterprise.
Foundational principles of enterprise-class clouds
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Part 1: Security and performance
Lessons from Wall Street IT should be incorporated into your enterprise cloud strategy plans. Security and performance in a cloudlike delivery model have been hardened into best practices on Wall Street for some time. The insatiable demand for instantaneous data, rapid decision support, and microsecond latency all happening in the intermediary cloud trading exchanges provides a reference framework that can be repeated in any firm across any industry -- today!
Based on this, we can take from Wall Street three fundamental building blocks for enterprise class security in the cloud as:
In these terms, two companies (Cisco and Unisys) are providing these capabilities out of the box today.
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