Keeping Cloud Data Protection Costs Low

The NIST Cloud Computing framework defines the following essential characteristics of cloud computing: On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling…

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Bad Things Happen

Bad Things Happened at OVH If you work in infrastructure, you probably saw some reference in the last week to…

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7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection

Years ago, back in the days when TV shows would take months, if not years, to appear in Australia after…

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Data Protection Memes

The concept of a meme has been around for quite a while, now. It was first introduced in 1976 by…

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Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…

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Basics – The FARR Model

Public Cloud is one of those things that works great until it doesn’t. Now, there’s a lot of reasons why…

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Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage?

Years ago, one of the most common terms I’d hear in IT was “vendor lock-in”. It was, to all intents…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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Clouds and bandaids

I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments…

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