AM3 Cloud and Virtualization Blog

With the Financials being the most vulnerable sector, data breaches in the United States have grown almost 50%. 

According to the FBI, more than 60% of data stolen or mishandled comes from inside a company. 

Accountants, tax preparers, Enrolled Agents, law firms and any organization that utlizes seasonal employees are at greater risk.  For example, during tax season temporary or seasonal  workers  are brought in during peak activity, are given access to very sensitive data, and then are gone after April 15th–and with them the data.

Now that is not to say that all seasonal employees are ID thefts, in fact most are not.  But it is unnecessary to increase your liability when so many affordable solutions such as AM3 Cloud Service are avaliable.

If nothing else, at least encrypt your data.

AM3 Technologies will be sponsoring the San Diego Harbor Helping Hands Christmas basket giveaway to the homeless in San Diego.  Many of the homeless near the San Diego Harbor are Vets who need our support. Last year we collected nearly 50% more in donations then our first year.  Our goal this year is to increase donations by another 50%.  This is AM3′s third year sponsoring the Christmas basket giveaway, and though the economic environment is tough for everyone, we hope that those who can give will and those who can’t will donate their time. 

Thank you and have a wonderful holiday season.

AM3 Technologies is proud to partner with Cranium-Solutions, the first ever provider of cloud-based security scanning and vulnerability testing.  Their technology works not only on perimeter networks but on internal networks as well.  It is a completely agentless solution which can help customers attain their PCI compliance and tighten up security.  AM3 Technologies will be providing the cloud service infrastructure to Cranium-Solutions as well as OEM their product to offer to AM3 clients.

Its a pretty exciting time at AM3 Technologies, enhanced by the new partnership with Cranium

A quick introduction: My name is Al Muller, founder of AM3 Technologies. I have been working with VMware virtualization since 2002 and in 2003 I lead a project which was responsible for the first production roll-out of VMware ESX server in the United States.  Since then, I have led virtualization projects at Wal-Mart, the McGraw-Hill Companies, the State of Michigan and Sempra Energy, to name a few.  In 2005, I co-authored the first book on virtualization and published a second book on virtualization in 2006.

After building the virtualization practice for AT&T Consulting for 5 years, I started AM3 Technologies to provide cloud computing and virtualization benefits to small, medium and large businesses.

This blog will present pretty much anything that is interesting about cloud computing, virtualization, including  IT industry forecasts, straight-up technical insights and how-tos, end-user community  impact and many suggestions you make.

I hope you enjoy the blog and please provide any feedback, positive or otherwise.

-Al