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Amazon S3: Backup Your Laptop for Less
For quite some time I’ve been meaning to tinker around with using Amazon S3 for a backup tool. S...
Managed Services in the Cloud
We’ve talked about what to look for in purchasing SLAs based on your specific business needs, but ...
AWS vs. Google Compute Engine — Who Trumps Whom?
2nd watch CEO, Kris Bliesner, recently wrote an article for Sandhill.com, an online destination for...
Cloud Computing: Shift from CapEx to OpEx
According to Gartner, while 42% of CIOs report to CFOs, 75% of CFOs are actively involved in making ...
AWS Elastic MapReduce vs Windows Azure HDInsight
In the past few years, Apache’s Hadoop software library has increased market share for Big Data an...
Cloud Economics Realized
There is a tremendous amount of buzz right now about Cloud Computing across many different areas of ...
Importance of Latency and Bandwidth
Internet usage between 2000-2012 has increased by approximately 560%; and there are over 2.4b people...
Amazon Now Storing 2 Trillion Objects in S3
In his article “Amazon Now Storing 2 Trillion Objects in S3” posted 4/25 in The Schwartz...
Minimizing Downtime by Keeping Track of the Stack
Far and away, one of the most common blockers that keeps organizations and cloud computing apart is ...
Why SLA is Important in Cloud Computing
Making sure your cloud provider is giving you what you need is based on a Service Level Agreement (S...
Cloud Backup: More is Always Better
You’ve seen podcasts, blogs, whitepapers, and magazine articles all promoting backups, the concept...
We Heart Business Intelligence
This past Valentine’s Day, Amazon Web Services launched a business intelligence and data warehousi...
AWS Price Drops: More than Just a Sweet TCO Treat
Last week, AWS announced its 26th price drop, which may have you wondering what this trend really me...
Benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Operational efficiency and reducing costs continue to be critical issues for IT leaders. Common conc...
Upgrading your Multi-Factor Authentication
The use of Multi-Factor Authentication, or MFA, to access your Amazon Web Services management consol...
Micro instance install less than $1
Here is an easy but effective tip for managing micro instances in AWS. Micro instances can be a chal...
Agile and proactive use of the cloud
The companies that we are engaged with currently all share a few common traits and these companies s...
Security and Compliance in the Cloud
I was reminded by many local IT leaders today while attending a Cloud information session that secur...
Small Business in the Cloud
I spoke with a client today who is a local health care professional who owns his own business and is...