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State of security readiness

State of security readiness

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Tags: Computer crime, Design, Distributed systems organizing principles, Management, Security, Security and privacy, Theory, Web applications, Web services

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Pointers

'Microsoft to battle in the clouds'

BBC News
See in particular the short video clip on Microsoft Azure

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7693993.stm

Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Cloud Computing Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Jargon

IaaS

infrastructure-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

PaaS

platform-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing

SaaS
software-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing