by Dennis Webb | Oct 4, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Case Studies, Cloud Technology, S3, Testimonials
There have been many stories over the past months about S3 buckets being left unsecured. Terabytes of sensitive data available for the whole world to download. CyberSecurity 101 teaches, “Don’t leave private data open to the public.”, but somehow many major companies...
by Kenneth Johnson | Jun 29, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, High Performance Applications, Managed Service Provider, Microsoft Azure
I am often asked about High Availability on AWS. And we see a great deal of opportunity for users of AWS to improve in this area—so much so that it is a formal theme among our seven themes in the Cloud Maturity Index. It has become a major area of focus for Blue...
by Mike Madsen | Aug 25, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Testimonials
I recently had the chance to attend Amazon Web Services’ annual Summit in New York City. Spread throughout the sprawling Javits Center on the West Side of Manhattan, the Summit really projects a sense of the scale of today’s AWS – a testament to the monumental growth...
by Lee Hylton | Aug 24, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, High Performance Applications
DevOps, despite being a huge industry buzzword as of late, is not something that is easily defined. There is no one answer to what DevOps looks like; rather, it is a concept brought forth as a result of the combined concepts of Lean IT Operations; applications that...
by Brad Campbell | Jul 23, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Commuting, Cloud Technology, Remote Work Experience
When I think about successful companies that “work together” to get things done, the word “collaboration” always coalesces in my mind. And with it comes images of people working together: these images often take the shape of people huddling...
by Kenneth Johnson | Apr 1, 2015 | All Firms, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Microsoft Azure, Newsroom, Security & Compliance
Forrester Research recently completed its WAVE study of cloud IaaS providers’ security. Although many IaaS providers were invited only 4 agreed to participate—AWS, Azure, IBM and CenturyLink. The study was thorough and discloses specific factors and how they were...
