#firehost

[rajdomains]

On August 23, 2015 I had detected that the domain names Armor.com and Armour.com had likely sold and questioned if Under Armour may have purchased the domains from the past owner, Chris Poor who had owned them since they were created back in 1995.

[sdxcentral]

New Post has been published on SDNCentral by Craig Matsumoto http://nfv.io/1yyeSpD

New Post on https://www.sdncentral.com/news/cisco-vmware-cloud-provider-firehost-goes-sdn-shopping/2014/07/

Cisco or VMware? Cloud Provider FireHost Goes SDN Shopping

FireHost sees promise in Cisco’s ACI and VMware’s NSX. But the cloud hosting provider, known for its levels of security, has reservations about both. In this Q&A, FireHost’s network architects explain what they want and what they’ve found lacking.

[cloudreview-blog]

Firehost review

Firehost managed cloud service provider is one of the service providers that deals with the security issues of the cloud servers. Its services and products deals primarily in overcoming barriers of cloud security

[jglicksberg-blog]

"Cloud" Data Has to be the Worst Branding Concept Ever

I'm increasingly convinced one of the big stories of 2012 will be the simultaneous explosion of mass-market "Cloud" data storage and "Hacking".

As developers, we find ourselves increasingly integrating with third-party apps. to provide complex configurations which would be unwieldy for us to develop on our own, and too costly for our typical clients.

The logic is clear, an app solution such as MailChimp provides massive functionality for email list management, great analytics (see below ;) and, they do only email... so I guess they have most of the bugs worked out of the system.

Now, I personally believe a 3rd party app provider will actually have BETTER data security.  They are forced to comply with many more clients and tech demands then a single company.  And, their entire business disappears with a single breach of security.

But try to explain to a non-tech client that their data in a "cloud" is secure.  Forget, the word "Cloud", attached to "Data" instills instant anxiety.

There are real risks, of course, and lack of direct control may feel insecure.  The risk, I think, is in the points of intersection between a website and an app.; i.e. where the data crosses-over is where security and glitches will likely be an issue.

Regardless, these types of common-functionality applications are a huge growth market for tech, and cloud remains a hot topic.

I combine this trend with my totally unverified sense that hacking is...out of control.  The political cases get the most news, but I am also aware of a growing trend to banging away at root passwords on multiple servers until hackers get into a server and can use that power to hack another system.

As a result, there is a growing movement towards selling on security.  This was the rationale behind our recent move to FireHost as a hosting provider.  FireHost's message is clearly based on server security.

By contrast, our past hosting provider, MediaTemple, has a clear policy that companies are responsible for maintaining their own server security.  Fine for a large corp. but not for a small business without a 24/7 IT support staff.