2 Questions to Answer When You Suspect Cloud IaaS Has Stopped Making Financial Sense
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 …
Control Your Data Security: The Shared Responsibility Model
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 …
Workmail, Workdocs and Workspaces: AWS Moves Further Up The Stack
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 …
Are Cloud Desktops Here to Stay?
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 …