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Dedicated Servers vs. the New Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instance

  • Posted on:March 28, 2011
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
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Dedicated Instances are Amazon EC2 instances launched within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that run hardware dedicated to a single customer.

Of course, the humor here is that Amazon didn’t explain which hardware it was referring to. If you compare it to an enterprise server in a private data center, it’s clearly less secure (unless you applied cloud specific security and encryption tools perhaps). But if you compare it to existing hosting offering, it’s no less secure than enterprise grade hosting has been for a decade.

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Tags: cloud computingCloud Securitycloud-based securitydatacenterEC2iaasPublic CloudSmart Protection Networkstoragevirtualization

Cloud Security Insights from Gartner Data Center Conference

  • Posted on:December 22, 2009
  • Posted in:Virtualization
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
0

I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas in December to gain some insights about how enterprise IT professionals are viewing virtualization and cloud computing.   While I dislike Las Vegas in general, I was able to visit the Pinball Hall of Fame (a must-see if you’re a pinball aficionado).  From a security perspective,…

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Tags: Cloud Securitydisaster recoveryPrivate CloudPublic Cloudstoragevirtualization

The Sky is Falling on Cloud Computing

  • Posted on:October 20, 2009
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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Adding to what my colleague Todd has written on the Microsoft/Danger data loss issue… What has been billed as a large scale failure of cloud computing, more specifically, cloud storage, is making headlines and generating lots of heat but little light. Major outage hits T-Mobile Sidekick users:  “Users of T-Mobile’s Sidekick have been suffering through…

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Tags: cloud computingdatacenteriaasMicrosoftsaasstorage

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