• Telstra IaaS platform gets ISO certification

  Telstra's (ASX:TLS) full infrastructure-as-a-service platform has been classified as compliant with the ISO27001 international standard for information security management.

• Infrastructure cloud services take a shift toward PaaS

  LAS VEGAS -- Services providers that have traditionally offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds are beginning to move up the stack into the platform as a service (PaaS) market in an effort to diversify their portfolio and respond to increasing customer demand for cloud-based development services.

• VMware, Piston Cloud pledge to develop open source PaaS offering

  In a pairing of unlikely partners, Piston Cloud Computing announced it will work to support integration of VMware's open source platform-as-a-service offering Cloud Foundry with OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service model.

• Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

  For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing -- one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

• Amazon outage one year later: Are we safer?

  Amazon Web Services last April suffered what many consider to be the worst cloud service outage to date - an event that knocked big name customers such as Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and others offline, some for as many as four days.

Whitepapers about IaaS

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  Reaching for the Clouds: Achieving the Business Benefi ts of Cloud Computing

  Increase flexibility, lower costs, and more effectively meet the needs of the business with BSM for Cloud Computing. By any measure, the hype around Cloud computing has reached nearly deafening levels. However, behind the wall of hype lies a fundamentally straightforward concept — one that’s been percolating for many years in the IT world. Cloud computing is an architecture that enables IT organizations to parcel out portions of a shared pool of hardware and so ware resources to users through an automated, self-service request system.