Fort In The News

http://www.bizstartup.ie/news/item/16572-start-up-promoting-40pc-it/

Cloud Computing- is Internet based computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

http://platform.forttechnologies.com/

http://www.eurocloud.org/index.php  

Cloud Computing Blog - Ross Cooney

Security White Papers

http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/press-releases/enisa-clears-the-fog-on-cloudcomputing-security-1

http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/guidance/csaguide.pdf

http://www.opengroup.org/jericho/cloud_cube_model_v1.0.pdf

http://www.globalfoundationservices.com/security/documents/SecuringtheMSCloudMay09.pdf

http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/AWS_HIPAA_Whitepaper_Final.pdf

http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf

Legal Sites

http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Home/4.htm

Keywords and Terms

IaaS- Infrastructure as a Service - delivers IT infrastructure such as servers, switches, firewalls and other hardware components on a virtualised basis typically on a virtualisation platform.

SaaS - Software as a Service- delivers an Internet or cloud based software application where the software resides on the Internet with no need to install locally.

PaaS - Platform as a Service - delivers the infrastructure and part of the application stack as a service and enables the user to build a software application and deliver it in the cloud, typically used for application development.

Self Provisioning - ability of customer to design, build and buy IT services without a service providers intervention.Systems with a high degree of self management.

Virtual Server - using virtualisation software (a hypervisor) a physical server can be split into multiple servers which are independent of the underlying hardware, also known as a Virtual Private Server.

Hypervisor - software which makes it possible to run multiple Operating Systems concurrently on a single physical host.

Cloud Platform - an IT services platform which is hosted on the Internet.

Virtualisation Platform - IT infrastructure where the hardware has been 'virtualised' by a hypervisor.

Grid Computing - a group of computing resourses workingtogether to complete a task.

Utility Computing - the packaging of computer resourses such as servers and storage where the service is metered on a pay as you use basis.

Private Cloud -  also called a corporate or internal cloud, provides hosted computing services to a limited or specific group of users.

Public Cloud -  sometimes called an external cloud where the resources are available over the public internet to the general public.

Hybrid Cloud - where a mix of multiple private and public cloud services are used to achieve overall IT strategy.