• Amazon Web Services last push towards security and compliance: CloudHSM

    added on : 03/29/2013
    We are getting used to the fast pace of innovation and new tools brought by Amazon Web Services (AWS), but this week CloudHSM announcement was a surprise. So, you do not trust AWS to store your keys and keeping them outside adds complexity and impacts performance? You want to use AWS but you have critical [...]
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  • AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) support in CloudyScripts

    added on : 11/22/2012
    A few days ago, Amazon announced that they have deployed a new region in Asia Pacific (to Sydney, Australia) on its blog (the full article could be found here) Even if Amazon documentation did not contain all the required information (such as the Amazon Kernel Image IDs), we were able to retrieve them, thus allowing [...]
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  • vSphere 5 Hardening Guide

    added on : 06/06/2012
    Vmware has just released a great guide: the official hardening guide for vSphere 5. The terminology has changed and if you are used to the version 4.1, there is a nice companion document to help you compare. The security of the virtualization layer is fundamental for the security of the cloud infrastructures. This is acknowledged [...]
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  • Launch of HP Cloud with OpenStack

    added on : 05/10/2012
    We’ve been busy lately with the second version of Elastic Detector, that supports Amazon EC2, Terremark’s vCloud Express and Eucalyptus. Today we’re thrilled to announce support of another leading cloud infrastructure: HP Cloud. Please find the complete announcement here. We are strong believers in OpenStack and we have participated to the private beta of HP [...]
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