About Eric
Eric Thomas serves as Director of Cloud Products for IT analytics company ExtraHop. Prior to taking this role, Eric led the ExtraHop professional services team, and draws on over 20 years of experience in IT operations.
Before joining ExtraHop, Eric performed a variety of operational roles, most recently as director of advanced engineering for Thomson Reuters, where he led a team of performance and availability specialists, supporting over 200 applications representing $2B in annual revenue. His prior experience includes enterprise IT management, SaaS production operations, and next-generation technology advocacy.
Posts by Eric Thomas
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S3: Lessons in the New Shadow IT
Almost 70% of exposed records in 2017 were due to misconfigurations in services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Here's how to be smart and secure on S3.
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Clouded Judgment Part 3: Public Cloud Adoption
This week on Clouded Judgment, Eric talks about the state of public cloud adoption in the enterprise, how organizations can best take advantage of next-generation infrastructure, and the capabilities and shortcomings of cloud provider tooling.
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Clouded Judgment Part 2: Judgment Day
This week on Clouded Judgment, learn about the economics of cloud migration with resident expert Eric Thomas.
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Clouded Judgment: Part 1
You've got questions, we've got answers: learn about cloud security, platforms, migrations, and more with resident expert Eric Thomas.
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The 5 Stages of Security Grief
Heard of the 5 stages of grief? Learn how security pros cope with breaches.
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TCP Analysis: Where the Network Meets the Application, Part 2
- April 22, 2016
- Posted in Tech, Analysis, Good Reads, Stories from the IT Trenches, TCP Tuning and Optimization
A diagram of the OSI Model. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we imagined the perfect framework for no-impact monitoring of an application stack and found it was right in front of us all along in…