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…
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…
Data Protection Memes
The concept of a meme has been around for quite a while, now. It was first introduced in 1976 by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Clouds and bandaids
I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments…