A Rapid7 report surfaced last week that discovered some 126 billion AWS S3 objects were exposed to the general public. AWS has since taken a brunt of security attacks by many blogs and tech magazines for their “lack of security”. But I have to voice as an objective analyst, this is not the fault of [...]
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Cloud Security Configurations: Who is responsible?
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
Go West Cloud Customers?
by Kyle Hilgendorf | October 23, 2012 | Comments Off
Yesterday was marked with another major cloud outage. Amazon Web Services experienced a single availability zone issue in the US-East-1 region. As with all major cloud provider outages, I get the opportunity to speak to customers affected by the outage or customers considering broader public cloud adoption. One question was asked of me in multiple [...]
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Category: AWS Cloud IaaS Outage Providers Tags: AWS, Cloud, Iaas, Outage
OpenStack: Too many cooks or insurmountable force?
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
I just returned from full days at the OpenStack conference and analyst day in San Francisco. For full transparency, I’ve been somewhat skeptical about the size of the OpenStack movement and the crippling effect of too many players and the competitive nature of those involved for moving the initiative forward. Perhaps some of this comes [...]
Category: AWS Citrix Cloud IaaS OpenStack Private Cloud Providers Tags: AWS, CloudStack, Iaas, OpenStack, Rackspace, VMware
Improving the Internet bottleneck for Hybrid Cloud connections
by Kyle Hilgendorf | August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
In my recently published Gartner IT1 guidance document, “Moving Applications to the Cloud: Finding Your Right Path”, I highlighted a major contributing factor to the failure of VM to cloud mobility being the Internet bottleneck between enterprise data centers and public cloud providers. In fact, for many large enterprise organizations, achieving uploads of 2-3 GB/hour [...]
Category: AWS Citrix Cloud Dedicated Hosting Hybrid IaaS Mobility Tags: AWS, Citrix, Cloud, Hosting, Hybrid
Pain is weakness leaving the cloud
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
The AWS outage was sad for me to see. As a research analyst that covers cloud computing, I have a vested interested in the success and viability of the cloud. Amazon is a major bellwether for the cloud. They’ve set direction, driven innovation, and challenged status quo. Cloud providers everywhere either try to emulate Amazon [...]
Category: AWS Cloud IaaS Tags: AWS, Cloud, Liability, Outage, Transparency
