TA3901

Security and the Cloud

Enterprises are looking for ways to expand their on-premise infrastructure to add capacities on demand, as well as SMBs or workgroups wanting a fully outsourced infrastructure, are investigating cloud computing. Many of today's solutions have issues like proprietary application platforms that require redevelopment time to function off-premise, inability to move to another provider if SLAs aren't met, and long lead times to move or set up new environments. This presentation is based on an actual customer experience utilizing VMware's vCloud.
For customers, vCloud delivers peace of mind in knowing the services they get from hosting/service providers for disaster recovery, test and dev or just simple infrastructure on demand will be reliable, flexible, and secure. This presentation will analyze the core security and reliability components and demonstrate the security of the vCloud with an actual customer application failing the business defined Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the application due to security vulnerability, and the application migrating to the service provider environment to meet the SLA by mitigating the vulnerability.
Proposed agenda:
-security consideration for cloud environment
-how to preserve a consistent security policy regardless of hosting it on premise, or hosted by a cloud partner?
-how do define SLA for security?
-how to evaluate the security offering by a cloud partner?

Technology & Architecture

Breakout Session

Security, Service Level Agreement, SLA, Cloud

1 Hour

Ahmed Sallam, Senior Technologist, Software Architecture & Strategy and Chief Software Architect, McAfee
Ken Owens, Technical VP - Security and Server Technologies, Savvis