Tag: cloud provider

September 25, 2023

Around $200 million worth of cryptocurrencies has reportedly been stolen after the cloud service provider used by a cryptocurrency network was hacked. The news was confirmed on Saturday by the victim – Mixin Network, which said in a Twitter thread […]

September 20, 2023

Organizations that have yet to commit to cloud represent an opportunity for hyperscaler growth in a market dominated by AWS. As the largest cloud provider, AWS took in one-third of global spending on infrastructure services during the three-month period ending […]

September 12, 2023

I’ve been keeping up with private clouds. I’m not doing too much private cloud work, but I am writing and designing courses on the topic. As you may recall, not long ago private clouds were the primary focus for most […]

August 1, 2023

An apparently innocuous cloud hosting provider may be fronting for an Iran-based company that provides command-and-control services to ransomware attackers, according to a report published this week by security consultant and anti-ransomware vendor Halcyon. Cloudzy, the report said, is primarily […]

June 13, 2023

“Data is the new oil,” said British mathematician and data scientist Clive Humby in 2006. It’s certainly a valuable and coveted resource, but you need to be able to access and use it for it to be valuable. Now that […]

May 30, 2023

It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that data has been removed from XYZ public cloud server, and they need it back ASAP. It gets worse. First, there is no current backup copy of the […]

May 15, 2023

Public cloud services provider Oracle on Monday said it will launch a new cloud region in Serbia, which will make it the first among rivals including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and IBM, to offer a hyperscale data center […]

January 3, 2023

Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission that someone made a big mistake moving […]

November 30, 2022

More CISOs will have to deliver revenue growth to protect their budgets and grow their careers in 2023 and beyond, and a core part of that will be getting multicloud security right. It’s the most common infrastructure strategy for rejuvenating […]

August 31, 2022

The first thing to know about managed cloud services? It would certainly help to define the term as a starting point. At some point in the not-so-distant past, a “cloud managed service” probably referred to something straightforward like paying a […]

August 4, 2022

Given the expensive consequences of even relatively short cloud outages, legal action is inevitable in some instances. Companies have to determine whether they actually have a case and if it even makes sense from a business perspective to engage in […]

July 22, 2022

The security-minded community of owners and operators of healthcare infrastructure just landed a big new member. Google Cloud announced on Thursday that it has joined the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC). It plans to share its considerable intelligence, […]

July 15, 2022

Cloud migration is no simple feat. It involves intense planning, resources and cooperation to innovate and optimize successfully. But, no matter how much an organization plans ahead, there’s always a curveball. “During a migration process, every cloud provider will try […]

May 11, 2022

Choosing a cloud provider? There’s a good chance there’s something you’re missing in your selection criteria. Everyone looks at the obvious “must-haves”: Do they have the right services; are there any API compatibility issues; can I move workloads easily to […]

May 5, 2022

Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, […]

May 5, 2022

Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, […]

April 5, 2022

Virtually all businesses, 92% of them, now use cloud in some form or another. And while cloud has become ubiquitous, its gigantic tailwind hasn’t benefited everyone equally. In fact, when you look at the offerings from cloud’s biggest providers, one […]

February 22, 2022

In my last post, I wrote about a cloud platform (Rackspace) that made leaving its environment impressively difficult. So it makes sense now to explore ways companies can better prepare for an exit — and precisely how to exit when […]

February 17, 2022

By now, the potential benefits of moving workloads from the data center to the cloud are fairly well known. They include reduced time to market, increased flexibility to scale with demand, accelerated innovation, better reliability and faster recovery when applications […]

December 16, 2021

Despite the string of recent outages, the top cloud provider promises 99.99% uptime in its Amazon Compute service level agreement across top services, including Amazon EC2. If the company fails to meet that service level, it offers customers a service […]