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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Insights and Framework Compliance
With 30+ years of IT security and compliance expertise under his belt, our Chief Security Officer Michael Ngo has been hard at work ensuring the security and compliance of ORock’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and cloud offerings. Prior to joining ORock,...
Six Tips to Get the Most Value With Your Cloud Spend
While the federal fiscal year end buying season for government IT may be over, now is a great time to start your cloud search for 2022. According to recent Gartner findings, the leading analyst firm “forecasts end user spending on public cloud services to reach...
The Enterprise Strikes Back: Why Zero Trust Is Your Shield to Block Side-Channel Attacks
Side-channel attacks continue to pummel businesses, leading most business and IT leaders to face their worst nightmare. A survey just out from Deloitte suggests that a majority of U.S. executives have “experienced between one and 10 cyber incidents and breaches in...
Are those á la carte fees with your public cloud bill adding up?
How you can manage your cloud spendOver the years, buying an all-inclusive airfare has been replaced with an á la carte pricing experience, making air travel feel a lot more expensive and stressful. Beyond the cost of flying coach, there’s the extra fee for a...
ORock Technologies partners with Moser Consulting
We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Moser Consulting, an end-to-end managed service provider for IT as a Service (ITaaS). If you are seeking open-source expertise with the industry’s most secure open-source cloud, then Moser with ORock is a great...
Connect your site to the ORock Cloud with IPsec site-to-site tunnel
Modern businesses are starting to move to the cloud. Many IT leaders want to move to the cloud in increments. While some want to keep the current servers they are running onsite, they also want to build new ones in the cloud. One aspect of setting up such a...
Why FedRAMP matters to the private sector
If cloud security is your top concern, then choosing a FedRAMP-authorized cloud service provider is the answer. With 30+ years of IT security and compliance expertise under his belt, our Chief Security Officer Michael Ngo has been hard at work ensuring the security...
Open Source Continues to Gather Steam
2020 saw an acceleration in cloud usage and consumption, especially around adoption and use of open source-based technologies. Prior to a year of remote work, companies were stuck using existing frameworks and even resisted adopting open-source based...
First-of-its-kind cloud-based AI solution for everyone, everywhere
– By Gregory Hrncir, Co-Founder, CEO and President, ORock Technologies – Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption continues to accelerate rapidly, with PricewaterhouseCoopers estimating that AI deployment will add $15.7 trillion to global GDP by 2030. Increasingly, we...
Here’s how you can sync Windows to S3 storage
– By Dwane Pottratz, Senior Solutions Architect at ORock Technologies – If you would like to sync a Windows folder to S3 storage, you can do it in just a few easy steps. That way, you can have your files backed up in the cloud and still have them accessible in the...
SCADA, SCADA everywhere and not a drop to . . . pump?!
– By Stephen Lucas, Vice President of Product Management, ORock Technologies – Ok, you are probably wondering why I repurposed a legendary line from “the Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Well just recently, due to a failure of a chlorine injector and subsequent...
Shifting to Multi-Cloud? A Land and Expand Multi-Cloud Strategy Makes Sense and Here’s Why
—– By Matt Plummer, Chief Cloud Architect, ORock Technologies – Multi-cloud has become the new normal, with organizations spinning up instances using traditional cloud service providers (CSP) — and running into problems. It is hard to reconcile and balance...
A New Approach to Addressing Security at Cloud Scale
- Brad Sollar, Senior Solution Architect, ORock Technologies - Remember a few years back when Spectre and Meltdown was leading everyone to believe that it was the end for the public cloud and no processor was safe? Well, we patched and moved on, but the...
Accelerating Data Science Innovation and Speed to Insight
Deploy TensorFlow and PyTorch in a Simple, Automated Way - Stephen Lucas, Vice President, Product Management - When it comes to starting a data science project, many data scientists have to wait for their internal DevOp’s teams to configure and deploy resources for...
How the Hidden Data Fees in the Cloud Can Destroy Your IT Budget
- By Stephen Lucas, Vice President, Product Management at ORock Technologies - You might remember the famous lyrics from “Hotel California,” which lets listeners know that “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” For many, that best sums up...
Creating Windows Cloud Images
- By Dwane Pottratz, Senior Solutions Architect at ORock Technologies - When transitioning to the cloud, one of the first things that a software engineer runs into is the need for a cloud-friendly image. This blog will address how you can create cloud-friendly...
Protect your Sensitive Data with an Effective Open-source Backup Solution
- By Dwane Pottratz, Senior Solutions Architect at ORock Technologies - Modern businesses are juggling a growing amount of sensitive data. To reach that data, cybercrimes and ransomware attacks are sweeping across public and private sector organizations and the...
Cloud Compatibility With Leading Backup and Recovery Solutions
By Paul Schenkel Leading global IT and research and advisory firm Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions. While each vendor in the Magic Quadrant has differentiated features that distinguishes it from the others...
The Cost of Viewing Your Own Data – Why 3-2-1 Backup Approaches Are Crucial
By Mario Guarriello & Dustin Jackson Whether you back up data to tape, the cloud, or both, retrieving this information can be costly. From March 2020 came multiple reports of NASA having underestimated and underbudgeted the amount of money it would have to pay...
Secure and Accessible Cloud Data Backup Shouldn’t Be a Tradeoff
By Steve Robinson Remote access and being part of a distributed workforce represent the reality we’re all living. With the private data network expanding out to the remote edge, ubiquitous public cloud services are filling the...
You Need FedRAMP, but How Do You Afford IT?
By Lloyd McCoy Jr. One of the hottest topics for software vendors and federal systems integrators is how to approach the essential but arduous task of gaining FedRAMP authorization for their cloud services. These companies understand the need to comply with Federal...
Four Keys to a More Painless FedRAMP Authorization
By Lloyd McCoy Jr. In my last column, I took a close look at FedRAMP authorization, comparing outsourcing versus a DIY approach, in terms of both cost effectiveness and relative speed to market. I’ve seen some companies successfully navigate FedRAMP by themselves....
The Business Benefits of Outsourcing FedRAMP
By ORock Technologies and immixGroup If you are new to the federal government market, you are no doubt wrestling with how to ensure your products and services are compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This government-wide...
FedRAMP Certification: The Ins and Outs of DIY vs. Outsourcing
By ORock Technologies and ImmixGroup Software vendors and federal systems integrators continually wrestle with authorization for their cloud services through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). It’s fair to ask whether your company...
