With more and more organizations starting to dip their toes into the Cloud pool, there is still a lot of discussion around platform. For organizations who are looking to outsource their cloud environment, it seems like more and more (for now anyway) are favoring the big guys like AWS, Microsoft and VMware. On the other hand, folks who are looking at building their own clouds, and to some extent those who are looking to leverage a hosted cloud, OpenStack is becoming another interesting platform to look at. Recently, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger comented that OpenStack isn’t the right choice for enterprises. So, is he right? Continue reading
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It doesn’t matter what happened. What matters is what looks like what happened and what looks like what happened…is purdy nasty!
On Tuesday at the InfoSecurity Summit in Hong Kong, a very interesting point about cloud came up for discussion. While I’ll be one of the first to say cloud gives organizations of all sizes lots of great benefits and resources they might normally have access to, there is another side to cloud. A much darker, scarier side that is being used by cyber-criminals. Continue reading
I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly.
I read a great article recently pinning cloud solutions versus on-premise to see what the experts anticipate will be the new widely adopted service model. As someone who comes from the on-premise security business, and being in the midst of figuring out the best way to transition traditional solutions to cloud delivered ones, this is a very important argument. After all, just about every organization has used the on-premise model for security, so why is cloud a better decision moving forward? Continue reading
Tinder Stratus 