Beth Cohen

Beth Cohen is a cloud strategist for Verizon, helping to develop cutting-edge products for the next generation. Previously, Beth was president of Luth Computer Specialists, an independent consultancy specializing in cloud-focused solutions to help enterprises leverage the efficiencies of cloud architectures and technologies, a senior cloud architect with Cloud Technology Partners, and the director of engineering IT for BBN Corporation, where she was involved with the initial development of the Internet and worked on some of the hottest networking and web technology protocols in their infancy.

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Share Nothing Means Nothing Shared in the Cloud

Beth Cohen details the use of share nothing in the cloud. Share nothing means that all application components are carefully segregated so that each customer has its own self-contained environment, application, and access. If a component fails, it will ideally affect only one customer.

FedRAMP—Securing the Cloud Data Center Federal Style

In its continuing support of widespread federal cloud adoption, the US General Services Administration recently rolled out a security certification program, called the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for public cloud data centers and service providers.

Deliver Cloud Apps Better, Faster, Cheaper: PaaS of the Future

Software development tools are changing to meet the new demands for automated elasticity, sophisticated rules engines, orchestration across heterogeneous clouds, and support for a different software development lifecycle model. It's the future of Platform as a Service (PaaS)—better, faster, cheaper.

Using the Cloud to Build SaaS Applications the Right Way

Many traditional applications companies have rushed to roll out SaaS versions of their products without fully thinking through how an application architected to work in a traditional corporate IT environment might need to change to fit far different SaaS implementation requirements.

Ninety Percent of All Cloud Predictions Are Wrong

Beth Cohen compares the past predictions for cloud computing and the cloudy forecasts for 2013—covering Year of the Cloud, OpenStack, VCE Vblock, VMware Cloud, and Cloud Tools.

Under the Kimono—Cloud Data Center Security

Do you really trust that your cloud service provider is adequately protecting your data? An astonishing 94 percent of all compromised data involved servers, and most public cloud infrastructure providers offer customers little or no insight into their underlying data center security practices.

The Sunny Future for Cloud Management Tools

An emerging class of enterprise-ready, cloud management tools is in various stages of development, launch, or production, Beth Cohen takes a look at the more mature platforms, the up and coming tools, and the various categories of cloud management tools on the market today.

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