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Simplified Hybrid Cloud Integration
Features and Capabilities
Key Products
Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business
This product is deployed on premises, and allows connectivity to a large ecosystem of cloud providers to support hybrid cloud deployments for enterprises. Product components include:
- Intercloud Fabric Director
Access an end-user and an IT admin portal for lifecycle management of physical, virtual, and cloud workloads. - Intercloud Fabric Secure Extender
Create highly secure connectivity across multiple clouds. This feature helps ensure highly secure workload migration by maintaining all network and security policies specific to that workload.
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Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Providers
This product is ideal for service providers that want to provide a hybrid cloud deployment model and become part of the Intercloud Fabric ecosystem. This software is installed on the provider cloud and integrates with service provider infrastructure.
Its product component is Intercloud Fabric Provider, a virtual appliance that is deployed and managed by cloud providers. Providers can quickly offer hybrid clouds without building or adding your own APIs. Intercloud Fabric Provider helps onboard workloads from the enterprise to the provider’s cloud.
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Learn how to raise the bar on mainframe’s industry leading security with zEnterprise EC12
Examne how the new zEnterprise platform will help IT improve data analytics and create more secure hybrid cloud offerings.
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Extend single sign-on to the cloud
Single sign-on (SSO) allows companies to enforce access control policies
across multiple applications in a consistent manner. In this article, the
author covers the core concepts of how SSO can be extended from your
enterprise to the cloud. He discusses several different mechanisms to achieve
SSO between traditional applications running in your data center and your SaaS
applications. Topics include SAML, OAuth, and traditional agent-based SSO and
the author will highlight in general terms about how different SaaS providers
support the standards to different levels, thus complicating SSO
implementations.
across multiple applications in a consistent manner. In this article, the
author covers the core concepts of how SSO can be extended from your
enterprise to the cloud. He discusses several different mechanisms to achieve
SSO between traditional applications running in your data center and your SaaS
applications. Topics include SAML, OAuth, and traditional agent-based SSO and
the author will highlight in general terms about how different SaaS providers
support the standards to different levels, thus complicating SSO
implementations.
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The OpenStack network
Networking is an essential part of an IaaS system; that is no different with OpenStack, an open source, Infrastructure as a Service, cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA. In this article, the author describes the iptable chains and rules behind the OpenStack Cloud Compute-Nova project, a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system) written in Python that uses many external libraries. The author details the nova-network FlatDHCPManager component, as well as other OpenStack components. An iptable is a user-space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall.
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Advantages and options of private cloud computing
When we think of computer resources in the cloud, we usually think of
public clouds, such as the ones offered by Google or Amazon, with
infrastructure or applications shared by millions of clients worldwide,
through the Internet. Some organizations, because of their organizational
cultures or for security or regulatory concerns, cannot move directly into
public clouds, but they have the option of private clouds. Sandra Sergi Santos
explains the advantages and ways to use them to optimize your investments,
processes, and infrastructure.
public clouds, such as the ones offered by Google or Amazon, with
infrastructure or applications shared by millions of clients worldwide,
through the Internet. Some organizations, because of their organizational
cultures or for security or regulatory concerns, cannot move directly into
public clouds, but they have the option of private clouds. Sandra Sergi Santos
explains the advantages and ways to use them to optimize your investments,
processes, and infrastructure.
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Java development 2.0: Securing Java application data for cloud computing
Data security is a serious concern for organizations considering cloud
adoption, but in many cases it needn’t be. In this installment of Java development
2.0, learn how to use private-key encryption and the Advanced Encryption Standard to
secure sensitive application data for the cloud. You’ll also get a quick tutorial on encryption strategy, which is important for maximizing the efficiency of conditional searches on distributed cloud datastores.
adoption, but in many cases it needn’t be. In this installment of Java development
2.0, learn how to use private-key encryption and the Advanced Encryption Standard to
secure sensitive application data for the cloud. You’ll also get a quick tutorial on encryption strategy, which is important for maximizing the efficiency of conditional searches on distributed cloud datastores.
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Cloud services: Mitigate risks, maintain availability
Businesses and government agencies demand cloud services to provide better security in order to ensure continuous operational availability. To make this a reality, they need to formulate a cloud service policy on risk mitigation.
Learn about cloud service security and how to mitigate risks to cloud services to ensure high uptime availability and security in a cloud environment.
Learn about cloud service security and how to mitigate risks to cloud services to ensure high uptime availability and security in a cloud environment.