Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 26, 2010
What do enterprise IT architects need to know about the Cloud? What is the difference between SAML and OAuth? Can you really host an AD domain controller in the cloud? How do you enable single sign-on (SSO) between Active Directory and Salesforce.com? Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Apps? What is the state of art for [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 21, 2010
Cloud can make your environment *more* secure. A new cloud service alerts IT pros when specific events happen in their environment. For example, you might want to receive an email when a sensitive resource gets accessed, certain permissions get granted, membership for a privileged group gets changed and so on. This all is now part of the [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 15, 2010
It bugs me that for some irrational reason there is still a common-sense believe that data is more protected when kept in someone’s own datacenter and not with a trusted cloud provider. US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published data on past year data breaches in the medical industry. These only [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 6, 2010
Cloud-based AD backup and recovery service – Quest OnDemand Recovery – just got updated allowing among other things to easily locate the whole change history for a given account throughout the whole backup history, and roll the object back to any particular moment in time. The new feature is available right from the main screen. [...]