Bill Roth

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer The most anticipated talk of the day yesterday, at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, was by the deputy CIO of the CIA, Jill Singer. Her talk was entitled, "Enterprise Cloud Computing, the Infrastructure’s Final Revenge." She acknowledged the problem with defining Cloud Computing, and then went on to give her paragraph-length definition of “the cloud”. Her talk focused on the part of the Cloud behind the firewall. “Today’s CIO must increase the flexibility of the infrastructure,” said Singer. “Today’s CIO must manage cost to free dollars for [other purposes] …and work to improve the competitiveness of the larger organization.” “Faster, Better, Cheaper, and Safer” was the overall theme of her talk, and she pointed out that the good CIO should be able to get all four out of a cloud computing environment. She t... (more)

Java in the News: Sun's JavaOne Day One - First-Hand Report

The 2004 JavaOne conference opened today with the standard formula of industry keynotes. Documentary film maker and local TV personality Jonathan Karsh opened the show as the emcee. The 8th annual Java developer show began in front of a backdrop of scrolling Java (which had code for catching exceptions), Sun president & COO Jonathan I. Schwartz., started out by delivering the standard Sun executive speech touting the explosion of Java on handsets, servers, and developers writing Java. From Sun's perspective, the exciting news of the day seemed to be a new desktop window manager,... (more)

New Research: Guy Churchward on Security Management in a Virtual IT World

From our Friends at MGI Research: New Research Report: 20 Questions with LogLogic CEO Guy Churchward, focuses on the key issues that are shaping the market for IT security management tools. Guy is one of the more technically competent enterprise technology CEOs we have spoken to in recent history. He is also someone who keenly understands the holistic picture of what is needed to make a tech company successful in the current market. Guy's in-depth 20 Questions session with MGI's Managing Director, Igor Stenmark, focused on how the transition from physical to virtual, from in-h... (more)

The Future of Log Management and Smart Grid Technology

With the many log formats involved with Smart Grid, many energy companies are searching for a way to centralize the collection of logs, regardless of data format. A centralized log management tool, such as LogLogic, is seen to be an ideal way to collect and correlate security events and make responding to security events more efficient. “Down the road, we’re looking at instrumentation and monitoring of the various substations and the lines themselves, as well as home area networking with automated monitoring of major appliances, air conditioning, thermostat, etc.,” says an oper... (more)

Taming the Smart Grid: Log Management to the Rescue

Companies with existing LogLogic implementations are experimenting with ways to implement log management with this new technology. On the energy distribution side, Smart Meters collect information about energy usage at the residential and commercial level, and some companies are using their existing appliances to monitor and correlate Smart Meter-related events, as well as route the data to other systems for billing and other activities. “The big challenge that we’re looking at moving forward is going from a typical enterprise where we’ve got fifteen to twenty thousand various lo... (more)