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What If the Hackers Had Attacked Sony Through Microsoft Azure Instead of Amazon’s EC2?
On August 17, 2011 In Thought Leadership
There is widespread speculation that the recent attack on Sony was accomplished by utilizing credit card information stolen via compute resources purchased from Amazon’s EC2 cloud offering. This high profile incident has attracted attention in the mainstream press and in the blogosphere, underscoring the interconnected and anonymous nature of cloud computing, as well as
Microsoft Confuses Economies of Scale with Next Generation Data Centers
On June 1, 2011 In Thought Leadership
In a recent article in Information Week, a Microsoft executive made the claim that the economies of scale of cloud data centers were so compelling that few companies, if any, would want to continue to operate their own. He went on to offer Microsoft’s cloud data centers as the proof point. He stated the