Blue Sentry worked with a large residential property insurance carrier to help them save substantially on their AWS footprint. The company, an existing Blue Sentry managed service client with a large AWS presence, relies on Blue Sentry to monitor and proactively adjust its environment for performance, reliability, and cost optimization. As a result of this long and mutually beneficial relationship, …
Recently my thoughts on security have been swirling around a recent 60 Minutes segment on the Sony Pictures hack. In this segment, we learned that the sophistication of the attack carried out by North Korea was quite low. In fact, experts compared it to a moped relative to the F22-fighter-jet-level of sophisticated attacks that other hackers, including the U.S. Government, …
Today I came across an old article by Cade Metz on Wired from 2013 chronicling the experience of some well-known start-ups on the public cloud. The companies highlighted, which included Uber, Zynga, MemSQL and others, had started on Amazon Web Services only to find that, as their business scaled, their AWS bills grew to such a size that self-managed infrastructure …
If your firm is serious about data security and you want to move to cloud IaaS, AWS offers the most control. But with control comes responsibility. While AWS ensures the security OF the cloud, you must ensure your security IN the cloud. Get a good summary of how it works with this great AWS video on the Shared Responsibility Security …
Yesterday AWS announced the preview of Workmail, an Outlook-compatible email and calendaring service priced at $4 per mailbox and scheduled to launch in 2Q 2015. When the news broke, most of the talk was AWS was becoming distracted by the success of Office 365 and embarking on an impossible bid to unseat Microsoft Office 365. But when you dig a …
Certainly the most popular product requested by our clients are desktops in the cloud.  Law firms and other companies that have distributed workforces or the need to work “on the go” love the convenience of remote desktop access. While Blue Sentry offers a high performance and economical cloud desktop that can even be HIPAA compliant if necessary, there are many …
