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Scott SanchezDirector of Cloud Security Solutions at Unisys Corporation |
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| Article: Invest 15% of Cloud Savings in Security | |
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January 22 2010 |
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| For each dollar you save by making a move to cloud computing, you should invest 15 cents to improve security and increase compliance efforts. The top areas of focus for most should be application security and real-time monitoring efforts. The security levels that (you thought) worked in your internal datacenters does not necessarily work in the cloud. |
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| Article: The German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Cloud Computing in 2010 | |
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January 22 2010 |
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| Why are the issues for BDSG any different in a cloud computing environment? People see it as a risk, some of which I believe are real and others which I believe are just perception. |
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| CloudNod Cloud ramblings from Scott Sanchez |
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| July 18 2011 |
| I’ve just completed the first phase of my wide reaching industry study about cloud knowledge, and the results are exactly as we expected. The more pork you eat (especially when it is slow cooked in a smoker or bbq), the more cloudy you become. This chart says it all… ... read more >> |
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| May 19 2011 |
| This week I spent a few days at RailsConf in Baltimore re-connecting with my developer roots, and it gave me a fresh perspective on what developers really think about cloud. Background Although I’ve spent much of my time focused on the application layer in the past decade, it has been at the architecture and integration [...] ... read more >> |
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| May 04 2011 |
| Let’s say, hypothetically, that you are considering building a cloud-based service and had come to that fork in the road where you had to think about how to authenticate users to your API’s. As I was thinking about that problem, it struck me that potentially you could use the new(ish) identity and access management services [...] ... read more >> |
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| April 22 2011 |
| I’ve been having a conversation on twitter with @reillyusa this morning about how a “cloud of clouds” could help prevent a single point of failure like we saw take down so many sites yesterday due to issues at AWS. One availability zone or region goes down at AWS? No problem, as service levels started to [...] ... read more >> |
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| April 21 2011 |
| Diversify yourself across multiple availability zones, and even better, across multiple providers. You'll sleep better at night and will reduce the chance of showing up on the "is down" list. ... read more >> |
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| April 19 2011 |
| For years already we’ve heard people moan about cloud lock in, and how things should be portable between clouds. Today, most of the major cloud management platforms and stacks support multiple cloud technologies (some very good ones are even open source) and folks like CloudSwitch and BitNami can wrap your images so they can be [...] ... read more >> |
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| April 17 2011 |
| Another observational blog post as I try to catch up from not blogging for 3 months. This is what happens I spend a bunch of time on the street helping customers fulfill their cloudy dreams… One of the things I’ve been trying to evangelize is that for the first time since the dawn of IT, [...] ... read more >> |
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| April 16 2011 |
| If you're buying super high end hardware for your public IaaS cloud, you're doing it wrong. ... read more >> |
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| January 17 2011 |
| Introducing the cloud “point of purchase” - the magical spot where the consumer and provider meet. ... read more >> |