Major Cloud Providers – Monthly Outage Recap September
MS Azure 9/30/19 Problems at Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure is having issues since 4:25 PM EDT. Most reported problems Website hosting (52%) Virtual machines (30%) Cloud services (17%) 9/25/19 RCA - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Provisioning FailuresBetween 20:50 UTC on 25 Sep 2019 and 04:25 UTC on 26 Sep 2019...
In Advance of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, Infinitely Virtual Joins DHS ‘Stop.Think.Connect.’ Campaign
Cloud Hosting Pioneer Lines Up Behind 2019 National Initiative To Foster Smart Cybersecurity Behavior Among Businesses and Consumers LOS ANGELES (Sept. 10, 2019)– Cloud hosting pioneer Infinitely Virtual today announced its support for 2019 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and its “STOP. THINK. CONNECT. ™” campaign (htt...
Major Cloud Providers – Monthly Outage Recap August
MS Azure 8/28/19 Azure Email AlertsBetween 20:22 UTC and 01:35 UTC on 29 Aug 2019, a subset of customers may not have received email alerts sent from a subset of Azure services during the impact window. 8/23/19 RCA - Service Management Operations - West/North EuropeBetween 06:20 and 10:46 UTC, a subset of customers in North Europe and...
The State Of Cloud Confusion: Who’s Your Cloud Built For?
Adam Stern | Forbes Technology Council Today’s question: How does a business get into the cloud? It’s not a trick question. It’s actually a freighted question with any number of nuanced answers -- and, appearances aside, not every business is already cloud-aware or cloud-bound. Let’s assume you’re a small or midsiz...
Cybersecurity Activism: A Wake-Up Call for Every Small Business Owner
By Adam Stern | Business.com There's often a tacit sense of accomplishment when something once on the margins goes mainstream. Mobile payments, cutting the cord, home automation, that kind of thing. Cyberattacks are increasing and their effect is widespread Cyberattacks are an exception. It's not that they haven't gone ...
Replacing the Front Lines of Cyber Defense with Concentric Circles
By Adam Stern | Security Magazine On the premise that the best defense is understanding the real nature of the offense – or, in this case, offenses, since cybersecurity addresses a multi-front battleground – it’s useful to think in terms of concentric circles, broad steps any small or midsize business can take to maximize safety. It...
Build it Right: Avoiding a Crash Course in Cloud Architecture
By Adam Stern | CloudCow.com For tech-savvy small business professionals, the need to get the cloud right has become Job #1. Although the cloud may be here to stay, there’s nothing fixed or “commodity” about it. Designing it, deploying it and operating within it are non-trivial pursuits, whatever the size and scope of your op...
Build it Right: Avoiding a Crash Course in Cloud Architecture
By Adam Stern | CloudCow.com For tech-savvy small business professionals, the need to get the cloud right has become Job #1. Although the cloud may be here to stay, there’s nothing fixed or “commodity” about it. Designing it, deploying it and operating within it are non-trivial pursuits, whatever the size and scope of your operatio...
Major Cloud Providers – Monthly Outage Recap July
MS Azure 7/30/19 RCA - Issues logging in to the Azure Portal with a Microsoft AccountBetween 21:00 UTC and 22:24 UTC on 30 Jul 2019, a subset of customers may have experienced intermittent error messages and failures when logging in to the Azure Portal with a Microsoft account. This issue affected a subset of MSA users who could not authenti...
Breaking Out Of The Containerization Box
Alex Artamonov | Mission Critical Get a thorough understanding of the options. Feeling boxed in by containerization? Unsure where it fits in within your organization? Concerned about security? Join the club. Having been around in some form since 1980, containerization today qualifies a shape-shifting trend. It’s an updated re...
