The CloudSAFE Blog
Security insights, data protection strategies, and cloud best practices to keep your business safe, resilient, and ready for the future.
A Summary of Doug McMaster and John Klockenkemper on Cloud Service Providers
The article states a key challenge for IBM i organizations is not accessing public cloud infrastructure, but knowing who should design, manage, and take accountability for it. While hyperscalers like AWS and Azure provide scalable infrastructure, they largely ...
A Summary of Doug McMaster on the Reality of IBM I
The real challenge for IBM i organizations is not moving to the cloud, but operating effectively once they get there. While most companies begin by shifting adjacent workloads to hybrid or public cloud environments, many struggle after go-live due to cost ...
A Summary of Gregg Rohaly on IBM and the Hybrid Cloud
The conversation introduces CloudSAFE and its evolution into a scaled, multi-platform hosting and managed services provider, emphasizing growth, broader infrastructure footprint, and a partner-friendly model – while reinforcing deep roots in IBM i backup, ...
A Summary of Doug McMaster On Power Systems
This article makes the case that nearly all AS/400 and IBM i environments have operated in a hybrid setting from the very beginning—surrounded by Windows, Linux, and AIX servers—and that today, these same organizations are inevitably consuming public ...
Defense in Depth in 2026: What a Real Layered Security Model Actually Looks Like
“Defense in depth” gets used constantly in cloud security conversations. It shows up in vendor decks, MSP proposals, and compliance documentation. Most organizations can say the words. Far fewer can draw the model. That gap, between the phrase and ...
Most Cloud Breaches Aren’t Sophisticated Attacks, They’re Just Basic Mistakes
When you see headlines about major cloud security breaches, the narrative often feels like a high-tech thriller. Advanced persistent threats, sophisticated hackers, zero-day exploits. But if you spend any time working inside cloud environments or responding ...
Hybrid Cloud Isn’t a Compromise. It’s Where Security Gets Serious.
99% of cloud breaches trace back to preventable misconfigurations, not platform failures. In hybrid environments, fragmented governance is where security ...