Zen 2.0

During RSA 2009, Cloud Security Alliance released its Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing (pdf). Below are the comments I made on twitter (using hashtag #csaguide). Later on George Hulme (@GeorgeVHulme) also posted his comments to #csaguide as well as written a blog post on it.
My Twitter Comments

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Summary

Web 1.0 is about 1-way information sharing.
Web 2.0 is about bi-directional participation and collaboration.
Web 3.0 is about the semantic web and ubiquitous computing.
Enterprises always lag behind consumer adoption on all leading web technologies.
There’s a long overlapping period between each of these phases due to the laggards.

Long Version
Web 1.0 is about information sharing. Web sites are [...]

[ Via @yarapavan ]
Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
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I asked a totally unrelated question on the Cloud Computing google group a few days ago and triggered a very active discussion on where “private” cloud is an oxymoron or not.
[ Please let me know if I am taking any of the quotes blow out of context. ]
Ben Yamin called “private cloud computing a paradoxical [...]

The world of clouds these days is full of definitions and counter-definitions. There are many posts that try to define the concept of cloud computing; many that try to distinguish utility computing, grid computing and cloud computing; many that try to define public vs private clouds; and many that dismisses the notion of private clouds. [...]

[via James Governor’s Monkchips]
Adil Mohammed, co-founder of entrip, with his take on why the cloud is perfect for startups. This was a presentation he gave at CloudCamp in London.
Startups In The Cloud
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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is one of the buzzwords that’s mentioned often in the cloud computing space. I’ve written a blog post describing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. In short, PaaS is a platform for delivering applications, similar to a pre-built system with hardware, OS and application stack all built in. In the PaaS case, this system is [...]

Recently we seem to be hearing more and more security exploits aimed at core Internet protocols. In July, Dan Kaminsky revealed a critical exploit aimed at the DNS protocol.
A couple of days ago “[t]wo security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable [...]

Craig Balding from Cloud Security wrote an interesting piece on the security benefits of cloud computing back in July (that I just now got to read.) Craig qualified the post as potential security benefits of Cloud Computing.
After reading through it, I felt compelled to respond, even though it’s a been over a month since the [...]

Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOM wrote an interesting piece on 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud. Even though I agree that some of these points are valid reasons on why enterprises are hesitant in moving into the cloud, I have to wonder whether Stacey meant to be provocative (read: flame bait) on [...]