Ellen Newlands is the product manager for Red Hat's cloud security productds. This dicussion covers some of the ways that the "cloud"--large-scale network-connected computing really--introduce new challenges for IT security.

Efficient and secure multi-tenancy is one of the big operational challenges in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments. Principal Architect Matt Hicks describes some of the key tools used by Red Hat to operate its OpenShift PaaS including SELinux.

Whether running in a pure public cloud environment or a hybrid approach that spans both public and on-premise resources, applications still depend on many of the attributes of an enterprise operating system to run reliably and securely. Red Hat's Chris Morgan discusses how the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program makes this possible.

Hosted Platform-as-a-Service delivers a lot of benefits to developers. But it doesn't always meet the operational demands of enterprise IT. Red Hat's Dan Juengst and Joe Fernandes talk PaaS operational models and why Polyglot PaaS is important.

Kurt Milne is the managing director of the IT Process Institute and has been surveying organizations about their cloud adoption. The most common strategy is to leverage existing resources where possible by taking an open, hybrid approach.

Cloud computing requires a mindset that approaches system architecture as a much more distributed, heterogenerous, and even self-organizing entity than was the historic norm in IT. VP of Product Strategy and GigaOm blogger James Urquhart shares his thoughts on the topic.

Open clouds aren't as simple as open source--important as that is. This podcast takes you through the multiple dimensions that are important to building an open cloud and getting the most value out of cloud computing.

Service catalogs enable user self-service while retaining IT control. They're an important way of balancing the desires of users and the needs of IT in a cloud environment.

Hybrid cloud management goes beyond managing virtualization. Red Hat's Chris Wells discusses how the new bar set by public clouds is changing enterprise IT.

Security experts Richard Morrell and Ellen Newlands talk cloud standards, whether the cloud is "safe," the role of identity management, and why application security matters.