Refreshed Servers Can Refresh Profitability, While Boosting Speed,...
More and more, as the world’s digital transformation accelerates, technology isn’t just a business enabler, it is the business. Take FedEx, for example. Pioneering founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith...
View ArticleHadoop Is Growing Up.
As a part of my regular duties, my job is to pay attention to macro-level movements of various industries and technology sectors. One of those sectors is facing some rather large tectonic shifts as of...
View ArticleThe 6 Myths About Servers That Almost Everyone Believes
“How long do we use our servers?” “Until they die.” That was a real conversation I had with another system admin during my first week at a new job in 1998. Google “how long should you go before...
View ArticleDell EMC Recognized by Microsoft as Its #1 Deployment Partner for Windows 10
Windows 10 is on track to be the fastest-growing Windows operating system in history. I’ve heard it referred to as “the best of Windows 7 and 8,” “the most secure Windows,” and the “best PC operating...
View ArticleForging New IT Skills With Cloud Foundry
One of the external technology inflections we’ve been actively pursuing in ERAA/Office of the CTO has been “Cloud Foundry” – a container-based architecture running apps in any programming language...
View ArticleIs That IaaS or Just Really Good Virtualization?
I was recently pulled into a Twitter conversation that spawned off a blog post Paul Galjan made concerning Microsoft Azure Stack IaaS and its use cases in which he correctly pointed out that Azure...
View ArticleRefreshed Servers Can Refresh Profitability, While Boosting Speed,...
More and more, as the world’s digital transformation accelerates, technology isn’t just a business enabler, it is the business. Take FedEx, for example. Pioneering founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith...
View ArticleHadoop Is Growing Up.
As a part of my regular duties, my job is to pay attention to macro-level movements of various industries and technology sectors. One of those sectors is facing some rather large tectonic shifts as of...
View ArticleThe 6 Myths About Servers That Almost Everyone Believes
“How long do we use our servers?” “Until they die.” That was a real conversation I had with another system admin during my first week at a new job in 1998. Google “how long should you go before...
View ArticleDell EMC Recognized by Microsoft as Its #1 Deployment Partner for Windows 10
Windows 10 is on track to be the fastest-growing Windows operating system in history. I’ve heard it referred to as “the best of Windows 7 and 8,” “the most secure Windows,” and the “best PC operating...
View ArticleForging New IT Skills With Cloud Foundry
One of the external technology inflections we’ve been actively pursuing in ERAA/Office of the CTO has been “Cloud Foundry” – a container-based architecture running apps in any programming language...
View ArticleIs That IaaS or Just Really Good Virtualization?
I was recently pulled into a Twitter conversation that spawned off a blog post Paul Galjan made concerning Microsoft Azure Stack IaaS and its use cases in which he correctly pointed out that Azure...
View ArticleLeveraging Advanced Analytics to Power Digital Transformation
“You can’t stop the incessant march of economics” – Bill Schmarzo Okay, so it’s probably not cool to quote oneself, but hey, this is my blog and I get to do what I want. And for anyone who follows me...
View ArticleMy Summer Defending the Digital Universe
In RSA’s quest to build out a deeper pool of future Defenders of the Digital Universe I had the pleasure of having Meghan O’Connor as a summer intern on my team. During her exit interview I asked...
View ArticleHow Schema On Read vs. Schema On Write Started It All
Article originally appeared as Schema On Read vs. Schema On Write Explained. What’s the difference between Schema on read vs. Schema on write? How did Schema on read shift the way data is stored?...
View ArticleREADY, SET, RSA CHARGE 2017 - FULL SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE
Summer is nearing an end, the kids are heading back to school, and RSA Charge 2017 is less than two months away from October 17-19. We invite you to peruse the full schedule for this year’s event on...
View ArticleGoing (Cloud) Native
Interoperability in computing environments is a repeating problem affecting multiple parts of an organization. When systems cannot communicate with one another, the result is slowdowns in every way,...
View Article7 STEPS TO A GRC RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK—4: EVALUATE RISK TREATMENTS
This week, we continue our journey through the seven steps you can follow to build a risk management framework for information. We’ve already looked at how to identify important information that may...
View ArticleRegister for RSA Charge 2017 like a Rhinestone Cowboy (and Cowgirl)!
I’m excited for this year’s RSA Charge event because, one, it’s Charge, and two, it’s in Texas! I used to live in El Paso and Ft. Worth, Texas so I consider myself an honorary citizen and always enjoy...
View ArticleThe Business Case for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Earlier this year, Wikibon proposed a theory that “the optimum hybrid cloud strategy” is based on an integrated hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) as opposed to the traditional enterprise...
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