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Thanks for the feedback. There are quite a few interesting backup management solutions out there for cloud workloads.

It's definitely all about what we have become accustomed to in terms of perception. Bad patches are definitely far and few between nowadays but we just expect everything to work and be perfect these days.

I definitely agree, unfortunately many companies do a very poor job of ensuring that their systems are properly patched. Many don't even have good visibility or reporting on what the current patch state is of their systems.

SolarWinds Patch Manager would fall into the category of an unmanaged patch management solution that can be installed by administrators in a public cloud environment.

Especially when it feels like there is always some exception for an older application. That leaves the environment in a vulnerable position and when there's a breach everyone wants to say well why weren't those systems patched.

I wholeheartedly agree that there should be an extensive amount of due diligence performed when evaluating whether or not to move any data to a public cloud provider as ultimately you are on the hook for ensuring you are following regulatory guidelines as well as security best practices around securing your data. Hopefully…

Thanks for the feedback.

Service maturity is definitely a big issue given the speed at which new services from AWS or Azure are being released. I think many people just think that the cloud providers are creating some magic but honestly its typically just an open source product that has been automated and presented via a UI. This means they are…

I appreciate the feedback

So is the intent of Cloud Backup to backup to other locations on the Cloud? The intent of cloud backup is to create backups of cloud workloads and store them in a persistent storage such as S3 in the case of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Do you backup to the same provider? Many companies will backup resources to the same…

Ultimately I don't foresee the public cloud eliminating on-prem infrastructure like many think for various reasons including many of which you have mentioned. We are certainly in the public cloud hype cycle at the moment.

Thanks for the feedback.

That becomes one of the major advantages of leveraging public cloud for test environments to be able to test patches against numerous applications quickly and fairly cheaply based upon being able to terminate those instances after they are tested. Of course the testing wouldn't be exactly a one to one but it definitely…

Good data management is definitely one of those things that gets pushed to the back-burner until it becomes a critical issue.

It definitely agree with the metadata overhead but the value of the metadata allows you to possibly get rid of data that isn't needed but would normally go unnoticed like a bunch of mp3 files someone uploaded or an application binary for example. I ultimately think that the additional overhead provides enough value to…

Thanks. It was really interesting to see what was out there in the market for patch management given how critical it is to the security of an environment.

Thanks. It's definitely helpful and almost necessary to have some good tools to manage the cloud given that most deployments are actually hybrid deployments and it typically means twice the work for the same people.

Thanks for the feedback

I honestly think the cloud is a much better location for patching from the perspective of being able to fully test patches before rolling them out to production. The ability to spin up and entire environment, test patches and tear it down within a short period of time is a major benefit in my estimation. In terms of…

There is definitely a lot of hype around how great public cloud is and much like any new technology or consumption model it will have it's weaknesses that are often glossed over while the hype machine is churning along. I recently had a conversation about cloud/SaaS providers and how much should one care about their…

I appreciate the feedback. One of the other really tough parts about the never ending cycle is that many people outside the teams that handle patch management think of it as more of nuisance than a critical part of securing systems.

I definitely agree that some of the "legacy" products are definitely quite clunky in terms of configuration and even the user interface. Many of the newer products have really nice looking and intuitive user interfaces.