Watch this video to understand the functionality found in the Account section of the Total Uptime cloud management portal.
Category Archives: IPS/Firewall
What is IP Anycast, and How Does it Work in the Cloud?
One of the most important aspects of the Total Uptime Cloud Platform is the underlying IP Anycast architecture. Without it, we would not be able to deliver a 100% uptime SLA and the level of performance our customer’s demand. In this article, we’ll explain what IP Anycast is (just called “Anycast”) and how we use it to deliver performance, reliability and uptime to our customers. Continue reading
Security… Getting to the Bottom of “Cloudphobia”
Cloud solutions have gotten a bad rap. They have incredible potential to minimize a business’s IT infrastructure, scale to meet rapid demand, support mobile workers, and cut costs, but they have also gained the reputation of being a risky investment. Many people are just not ready to trust a third party to secure their confidential data. Continue reading
Why a Cloud Firewall?
IT managers are faced with many difficult decisions today. The demands of performance, security, and economics are difficult to reconcile, and are only getting more challenging with the increasing number and complexity of internet attacks.
Another challenge that we are dealing with is the explosive growth of Web 2.0 applications, such as social media, blogs, wikis, video, mobility, instant messenger, AJAX, Flash, file sharing, and more… These applications cannot be secured by traditional firewalls, and the stakes are rising with sophisticated new threats such as botnets. Furthermore, with many enterprises adopting Cloud Computing and other cloud services that now reside outside of their corporate firewalls, a new element of risk is being introduced that is increasingly difficult to protect. Continue reading