GlassHouse Technologies Blog

Identity and Security Management
One of the big challenges sharing data between companies—for example, from your enterprise to an external cloud provider—is security management (authorization, access, and identity management).
In a traditional, campus-wide IT network, security rules and roles are relatively straightforward when tied to a directory service such as Active Directory or LDAP. In a single [...]

Transport Challenges—to WAN or not to WAN
How do you reliably upload gigabytes or terabytes of files (for example, application data or virtual machines) from your internal IT network to your cloud provider at a reasonable cost, in a reasonable time-frame? Use FTP? Possibly, but not likely.
You have a few options:

Create and pack backup copies of [...]

Compatibility, Portability, Interoperability
Imagine you’re a dock worker at the Port of Seattle in the 1950s having to handle hundreds of bushels of beans, halibut filets, and pallets of paint cans, all individually, and load them onto ships. It was costly and time-consuming labor.
Malcolm McLean of North Carolina is known as the innovator behind shipping containers. [...]