This week the conversation is all around the cloud computing and how today’s modern architecture continues to evolve. Christian, Ashton, and Jim talk about the ways cloud computing is being adopted in the enterprise and discuss the security and scalability implications of government agencies trusting their data to a third party cloud infrastructure. While we are still cloudy on a few matters ourselves, this episode promises to be a noteworthy discussion on where the next generation of cloud computing is headed. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective! Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does. Support the Average Guy Tech Scholarship Fund: http://theAverageGuy.tv/amazon WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? We now have Video Large / Small and Video iTunes options at http://theAverageGuy.tv/subscribe You can contact us via email at jim@theaverageguy.tv or call in your questions or comments to be played on the show at (402) 478-8450 Listen Mobile: Containers are the future of cloud computing http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/containers%E2%80%94not-virtual-machines%E2%80%94are-future-cloud Big take away: VMs run on separate operating systems with their own binaries/libraries Containers run on the same Operating system, sharing binaries and libraries with the native OS Security Concerns for Docker http://opensource.com/business/14/7/docker-security-selinux Takeaway: Namespacing raises security concerns at the kernel level, which is potentially very scary Google is already releasing Docker Optimized VMs https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/container_vms Takeaway: With companies like Google already looking to advance the technology, it might not […]