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Not Quite as the Crow Flies : Complications of Cloud Migration
For a successful CloudMigration that takes advantage of the Cloud's capacity for scale and flexibility, you need to overcome two key challenges: ensuring that your set up allows for the scale that’s needed and ensuring that your set up doesn’t allow working at an unnecessary scale.
“Defending the Living Room” – COVID-19, Cybersecurity, and Remote Work
Thoughts on Remote Work and the Expanding Cyber Attack Surface
Simple Technology Solutions Founder on Executive Leaders Radio
Aired April 16, 2020 “It’s all about making connections with people, finding out what motivates them, finding out how to move the needle forward – leveraging the collective strength of a team.” STS founder and managing principal, Adrian Rich, discusses his early days,...
Segmenting Cloud Costs in Multi-Tenant Environments
In the cloud, a multi-tenant environment refers to where there are multiple customers of a cloud vendor, for example AWS, using shared resources. Multitenancy is a crucial component of cloud computing due to potential cost savings but it can introduce challenges related to properly accounting and billing tenants for their resource costs.
Leveraging Cloud Native Services for Better Cost Control
Organizations cite "cost savings” as a key driver for moving to the cloud, and oftentimes, they are left disappointed. STS Senior Cloud Engineer, Imran Nayeem, discusses why this is not surprising.
The Value of Vault
As security needs become more sophisticated and greater threats to system integrity loom, the right secrets management tools are imperative to creating an agile, efficient, and secure environment to store and transmit privileged information. However, the IT professional must incorporate a holistic approach to security, keeping in mind the customer’s need to scale, access, maintain, and customize its security platforms.
Top Four Cloud Security Considerations
With the increase in telework, ensuring the security and resiliency of your cloud infrastructure has never been more important. STS’s Cloud Security practice lead, Tony Lutz, weighs in. Availability One of the cloud’s most touted features is its scalability- it is...
Cloud Vs. Cloud Scale
Cloud scale means not treating the cloud as another remote data center. It’s moving from just hosting applications in the cloud — to designing applications and engineering the underlying infrastructure to embrace elasticity and scalability. There are limited cost savings and performance benefits unless these capabilities are built inherently into the infrastructure.
What is Edge Computing?
Takeaways from the FedScoop Cloud Data Security Event
Last week Simple Technology Solutions (STS) attended Fedscoop’s Cloud Data Security event sponsored by Cloudera. The event was standing room only – a testament to the topic’s importance and relevance.
