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Dropbox polarized within the IT departments. From the executive board up to the ordinary employees, people rely on the popular cloud storage service. This is mainly due to the ease of use that is not provided by internal IT departments today. In particular two in Germany developed solutions attack here, which allow companies to implement their own DropBox similar functions within a self-managed IT infrastructure, TeamDrive and ownCloud. TeamDrive represents a fully commercial and proprietary approach. ownCloud an open source approach, but also offers a commercial version. Both claim the title of „Dropbox for the Enterprise“. However, if we are moving exactly in this environment, the issue of security plays a very important role.

This insights paper compares the security architecture behind TeamDrive and ownCloud. The other functions of both solutions are not considered. So it is about the consideration of encryption techniques, data management, data processing and the user authorization, if information is available. In the end, a recommendation for the management is pronounced to assist in decision making.

Security Comparison: TeamDrive vs. ownCloud by René Büst

Companies and developers stick in a dilemma. On the one hand, cloud computing should provide easy access to IT resources. But on the other hand, an enormous knowledge about distributed programming is assumed, to create solutions that are both scalable and highly available simultaneously. In particular, the issue of the responsibility for scalability and high availability for the virtual infrastructure respectively of the web application is largely suppressed by the cloud providers. This leads to a higher complexity of knowledge on the way into the cloud and to a lack of the seemingly simple use of cloud services. Furthermore, the cloud is currently lacking of complete services that represent individual modules for a specific business scenario and can be adapted easily and independently from each other.

Business-Bricks-as-a-Service (BBaaS) – Business Building Blocks in the Cloud by René Büst

On 31/01/2013 Rene Buest participated together with Steve O’Donnell (GreenBytes Inc.) an many others at Dell’s Think Tank about “Converged Infrastructures” within the Dell Technology Camp 2013 in Amsterdam.

The recording of the think tank is to be seen here:

Software-as-a-service is the most growing part in the cloud computing market. More and more providers of classical software solutions make the change and offer their applications over the cloud. Learn why your application belongs to the cloud as well and why your customers but even you as a provider benefit from this step.

Software-as-a-Service: Why your application belongs to the cloud as well by René Büst

What are the key elements of a cloud strategy? This question is not easy and can usually only be answered in general because there is not the master plan for a cloud strategy. Which nor exists for a corporate strategy or IT strategy.

Understand why a use case is the starting point of each cloud strategy and learn the key points to consider when creating.

Your cloud computing strategy – The use case is the starting point by René Büst

This checklist helps to verify the authenticity of an alleged Cloud Computing provider and thus prevent the cloud-washing.

Checklist: Check a Cloud Computing provider for authenticity by René Büst

On 14 and 15 November 2011 Rene Buest participated together with Paul Avenant on a panel discussion on „How mobility, SaaS and Social Media are changing IT“.

The recording of the video can be found under http://service.twistage.com/plugins/player.swf?p=bmctv-production&v=af7f9c3b10d49.

On 19/07/2011 Rene Buest was together with Dr. Stefan Ried (Forrester Research) and Peter Arbitter (T-Systems) participant of the international Live Webcast – “Dynamic Net-Centric Sourcing. Your Secure Path Into The Cloud” of the German Computerwoche.

Here is the teaser to the webcast.

The complete recording of the webcast can be found here .

And here are Rene Buest’s slides during the webcast.