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        <title><![CDATA[Cash flow risk]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3437297]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The big down-side I see for small business is: &quot;What will happen in a cash-flow crunch?&quot;Every small businessperson knows that sometimes customers don't pay their bills, and it can be a challenge to meet payroll and there isn't enough left for other bills. So you pay your employees, take the dunning phone calls, pay some late charges when the money comes in, and business goes on. There are safeguards and due process built-in to the system so that the Sheriff can't come and padlock your doors the day after your bill is late. Your creditors get their money, just a little later and a little extra.Now enter &quot;the Cloud&quot;. Your business becomes entirely dependent on your Cloud provider. If they shut you off, you're dead, and they're probably not bound by procedural regulations similar to lending institutions or utilities. If you can't pay on time, they put your service &quot;on hold&quot;, and you're out of business. You try to scramble to find money to pay them to keep the business going, and now maybe there's not enough money for payroll. But if you don't pay &quot;the Cloud&quot;, your business is dead.Like many &quot;new deals&quot;, the Cloud looks attractive on the front end because it doesn't involve a large upfront capital outlay. But IMHO, choosing &quot;the Cloud&quot; for a small business is akin to walking into the lion's den, or jumping into shark-infested waters.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:36:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Terminal Server]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3377862]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I _hate_ marketing speak.  &quot;To the cloud!&quot; is nothing more than a rebranding of the old dumb terminal/smart server scheme of computing.  Wow, how innovative!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jimmyHump]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:35:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: 1D Security]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was explaining one of the aspects of security. Security has multiple facets to it.Also you mentioned about Internet connection dying, how do you manage when your in premise corporate network fail?Also in cloud deployment there is option not to deploy the entire data in the cloud, but you can design your app to have data sitting inside your corporate premises and have application hosted in cloud connecting to the in premise data over the service bus.ThanksAmol Gote (MSFT).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aamolgote]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:52:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My provider is pretty mum...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[about the details, but they will only say that just one of their protections is some kind of host based protection scheme; at least I thought that was what I heard him say. I could tell he was trying to be careful in case I was some kind of cracker scoping out their site, but I decided not to push too hard.Since they provide cloud based password vaults, I would think it would be as bullet proof as possible. I hope more bullet proof that the average bank! But that isn't saying much!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:46:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[WELL!...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3264196]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[So now the comments appear! I must be REALLY losing it!! ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:41:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I had no idea]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3263318]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[that Amazon was one of the players in the Cloud. I learned a lot about the cloud from this mini-glossary.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jfuller05]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:40:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[STS susceptible to man in the middle attacks?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Isn't any security based on a token service still subject to a man in the middle attack?As far as access security is concerned, how does this differ from an internal network failure?  The cloud provider should surely have a failover setup pretty much the same as a private network, so if the IP gets taken out by a denial of service attack, then they should have a temporary switchover IP until the original IP gets clear again.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[victor.gutzler@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:14:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1D Security]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3263188]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Security covers more than who has access.What about Security of a connection to data?Security to access the data - my internet connection just died - my data is now unavailable to me.  The security of the company is now at risk as we no longer have access to the informarion we need.You are just thinking 1 dimensional.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[The 'G-Man.']]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:02:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Security in the Cloud]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do not agree to the comment that there is no such thing as Security for cloud.Microsoft Azure platform is been designed with security in mind and built in, a number of different security features. Fundamental aspects of security are securing data and verify identities have access to requested resources. Azure has .NET Access Control Service, which works with web services and apps to provide a way to integrate common identities. This service will support popular identity providers. Applications determine whether a user is allowed access based on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens that are created by the Security Token Service (STS) and contains information about the user. The STS provides a digital signature for each token. Applications have lists of digital certificates for the STS's it trusts. Trust relationships can be created between a trusted STS and an STS that issues a token to provide for identity federation. The Access Control Service is an STS that runs in the cloud. This STS validates the signature on the SAML token that is sent by the client application (web browser) and creates and signs a new token for the client application to present to the cloud application. .NET access control service and STS are just one piece of cloud security strategy; there are other components as well.ThanksAmol Gote (MSFT)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aamolgote]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:10:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Azure and BPOS]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Windows Azure platform allows developers to create cloud applications and services. It offers Windows Azure(OS as an online service), SQL Azure (Full RDBMS), AppFabric(connects cloud services and on-premises applications).BPOS - Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. It is a hosted communication and collaboration tools and the services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, Office Live Meeting, Dynamics CRM Online.ThanksAmol (MSFT)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[aamolgote]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:25:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cluster, you missed the most important reason for a cluster]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And its not cloud computing. Clusters are most often used for massive parallel processing. Load balancing is not MPP.Even in cloud computing the original use for Clusters is MPP, but then most people think computers are for reading email and browsing the web.There are less and less of us that use computers for real computing but we still use more computing power and do more processing by cpu cycles then all the rest of you put together, and we also do email and browse the web.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sysop-dr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Flock/school mentality about cloud security]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A major part of cloud security may be the notion that cloud consumers can depend on their data being backed up and then hide amongst the rest of the consumers, hoping that by shear probability they will not be the victim of a cloud predator.  If they get picked off, then they may file an insurance claim and rewind to a previous data state, and then hope it does not happen again.Data encryption should be able to allay data privacy issues.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[victor.gutzler@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:03:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Mini-glossary: Cloud computing terms you should know]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262338]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Thanks! Great to know the terms]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wahidnewton@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:36:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Mini-glossary: Cloud computing terms you should know]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262282]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Um... Doesn't Microsoft refer to their cloud offerings as BPOS for applications and AZURE for the development platform?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jaredhattaway@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:58:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Plug?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I expected to see Amazon, Google and Microsoft services in that list - they are synonymous with &quot;the cloud&quot;. But Salesforce?I stopped reading right there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[muppsy007]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:34:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think there's a definition missing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And that definition would be: &quot;Cloud = crap&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[frank.huminski@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:56:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Mini-glossary: Cloud computing terms you should know]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262097]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Cloud = the now politcally correct term for smoke and mirrors which implies someone is pulling the wool over your eyes. People need to wake up and see that if they are not careful, a few select entities will have control over most of the data that currently exists.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[glwright1262]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:20:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Right, no security but...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262092]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[every jerk journalist has latched on to it and they think they will make everyone adopt it if they say it often enough and loud enough.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[uberg33k50]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:51:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what this list is..]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262074]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[an avalanche of horseshit]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[edwardwstanley@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:25:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cloud Computing and Security]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-327635-3262027]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The reason there aren't any words for Security in the Cloud Computing glossary is because, at least in the current evolution, there is no such thing.Cloud computing has a long way to go before security can even be addressed in an internal deployment much less a WAN or WWAN.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tracy.walters@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:05:35 -0700</pubDate>
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