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A recognized thought leader on cloud computing, enterprise architecture and security, Scott Sanchez is a jack of all trades that has held strategy and leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Unisys and a number of technology startups along the way.
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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.
Two weeks ago 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...
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)...
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 serv...
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.
So this morning the big news is that AWS is having issues affecting customers in US-EAST-1. ...
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...
In the past few weeks I’ve run across a number of people building both public clouds that plan on using the highest end hardware possible. The fastest processors, IO, memory, SSD’s, infiniband, redundant everything, high end SAN hardware, etc. My reaction every time is… “why???”.
Th...
Another observational blog post as I try to catch up from not blogging for three 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 d...
Introducing the cloud “point of purchase” - the magical spot where the consumer and provider meet.
As product manager at ScaleUp, one of my top jobs is to make sure our cloud management platform has as much impact as possible at what we call the cloud "point of purchase".
This is t...
For years companies that had to store or process data about EU citizens only wanted to do it inside the EU. In some countries like Germany, the laws can be even tighter and hard to understand, so companies kept their data inside the "Bundesrepublik" to avoid any issues. The "Safe Harb...
A key reason that many enterprise security folks fall back on the old architectures in a cloud environment is (perhaps without even thinking about it) because they know it will pass muster with the auditors who will always trail technology by a couple of years.
What enterprises WANT, and their first choice when thinking about the benefits of cloud, is PaaS and SaaS. Just like what you WANT to be warm in front of the TV is a crackling fire and a thick down blanket. Since nobody has the time to make and tend a fire and a blanket requires you to...
This is a living blog post where you will find pointers to cloud security resources that I find valuable. Reference material, standards efforts, articles, blogs, tweets… whatever I think might help someone else will get shared here. Essentially, a place where I can (eventually)...
In a previous post I discussed my opinion on why SaaS is the most secure option right now, better than PaaS and IaaS. The short version is that because security is forced on you at all layers, and that super smart security people are responsible for that security, so the security you ...
Cloud isn’t secure because it is multi-tenant. This is a weak argument that I’m tired of hearing.
Here’s my short and sweet rebuttal to that position.
>> Your internal data centers are multi-tenant today, and you aren’t managing them as well as a public cloud is managed.
I ca...
Cloud storage (IaaS) services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or Rackspace CloudFiles have become part of the IT vocabulary these days, with S3 now storing over 124 billion objects as of the second quarter of 2010. Paying 15 cents per gig per month, with no up front capex inve...
There’s something to be said about people with the right focus and experience working every button and lever for you…
Clients frequently like to ask me the “which one is more secure” question about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Se...
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