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In The Cloud It Takes A Village

Logicworks, Cloud.com and Alert Logic team up to bring a state of the art cloud offering to market

By Alan Shimel on Mon, 05/09/11 - 12:52pm.

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Bringing a state-of-the-art cloud offering to market is not easy task. There is much more involved then just spinning up a VM server with some storage. Logicworks has been a premier hosting provider for a long time. But when they decided to jump into the cloud market with their Infinicloud offering they turned to two trusted partners to help them.

Alert Logic, a SaaS based security provider supplies over half of the leading hosting and cloud providers with security solutions. They had been working with Logicworks for some time in their traditional hosting business. So it was only natural that when Logicworks moved into cloud services they would continue to work with Alert Logic whose own services are optimized for the cloud and for working with hosting and cloud providers.

For the underlying platform Logicworks, a big supporter and user of open source turned to an open source cloud platform solution. They chose Cloud Stack, from Cloud.com.

I invited all three companies to explain how "it takes a village" to bring a cloud solution to market. Why virtually (no pun intended) no one provider can do it all themselves and how these three companies are working together to make it happen.

Peder Ulander, CMO of Cloud.com, Misha Govshteyn, co-founder of Alert Logic and Jason McKay, director of engineering join me in this great discussion. It is a little long running about 25 minutes, but I think well worth the time.

Enjoy!

If you do not see a media player, you can listen at http://ashimmy.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-09T09_31_17-07_00

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As co-founder and Managing Partner at The CISO Group, Alan Shimel is responsible for driving the vision and mission of the company. The CISO Group offers security consulting and PCI compliance management for the payment card industry. Prior to The CISO Group, Alan was the Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure. Shimel was the public persona of StillSecure as it grew from start up to helping defend some of the largest and most sensitive networks in the world.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. His commentary about the state of security, open source and life is followed closely by many industry insiders via his blog and podcast, "Ashimmy, After All These Years" (www.ashimmy.com). Alan is now also a regular contributor to The CISO Group’s security.exe blog and podcast.

Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Disclosure: The CISO Group sells a software-as-a-service PCI compliance application called SAQPro. The company is independent and does not represent any other vendor's products as a reseller.

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