Continuous Monitoring: Not Quite Constant, But a Bit Automated
Visibility is a key security element in every network environment. Without it, IT teams would be flying blind, only able to react as their vulnerabilities are exploited. Fortunately, monitoring...
View ArticleHow Hungry is your Organization?
As someone that tries to watch my diet, I know how hard it is to deal with your own appetite. Several things that are my weakness – fresh bread, cold beer, pizza, the list goes on – are definitely not...
View ArticleHadoop Summit 2016 – Dublin, Ireland
The conference season is upon us and this time we will be traveling to beautiful Dublin, Ireland for Hadoop Summit 2016 on April 13th and 14th, 2016. Of course we are thrilled to be a Diamond Sponsor...
View ArticleFeed Your Mobile Users Now, With No Regrets Later
The CIO of a large consumer goods company turned to us in the middle of a discussion around EMC Documentum. “What can you do,” he asked, “to help the 80% of my end users who don’t know how to use …...
View ArticleHyper-Converged Goes Into Hyper Drive
2016 is the year EMC and VMware are going “all in” when it comes to the hyper-converged infrastructure appliance marketplace. We took all the hard learnt lessons from the EVO:RAIL experience, and went...
View ArticleSimplifying The Internet of Things Conversation
We’ve all been in those sales meetings. The sales person kicks off the meeting by welcoming everyone and introducing the topic of discussion. Then the pre-sales expert drags everyone through their...
View ArticleReversing the Drift into Failure
In his January 2016 Cryptogram newsletter, Bruce Schneier reprinted an essay on “normalization of deviance”: the process of divergence from defined policies and procedures into increasingly risky...
View ArticleHyper-Converged Goes Into Hyper Drive
2016 is the year EMC and VMware are going “all in” when it comes to the hyper-converged infrastructure appliance marketplace. We took all the hard learnt lessons from the EVO:RAIL experience, and went...
View ArticleHow Hungry is your Organization?
As someone who tries to watch my diet, I know how hard it is to deal with your own appetite. Several things that are my weakness – fresh bread, cold beer, pizza, the list goes on – are definitely...
View ArticleManaging Third-Party Security Risk Requires Regular Reassessments
Even if your business partners’ security policies and processes were thoroughly reviewed at the beginning of your relationship, third-party security risk management requires regular reassessments to...
View ArticleThe Access Tug of War
While contemplating the user access management struggle between easier access and more security my mind goes back to the Tastes Great / Less Filling Miller Lite commercials of my childhood. Miller...
View ArticleThree Ways the Digital Transformation Impacts the Energy Industry
The only constant that we find these days in the Energy industries is change. Whether it is lower oil prices, pressure to generate power from renewable energy sources, or increasingly complex...
View ArticleUsing the Pareto Principle to Help Manage Cloud and SaaS Data Risk
The Pareto Principle is familiar to most people as the 80-20 rule. When it comes to cloud data risk, applying the Pareto Principle can help an organization focus risk management on where common risks...
View ArticleESRSv3: Critical Operational Update
2016 is well under-way and EMC World is right around the corner. There are some incredibly exciting launches that we have planned, that will transform the EMC customer experience and give EMC...
View Article/əbˈskjʊə.rɪ.ti/ – we need more of it.
Obscurity in action You have no idea what I think we need more of? Congratulations, that’s exactly my point. If you haven’t already googled the phrase above let me help you: /əbˈskjʊə.rɪ.ti/ means...
View ArticleAdvice for CIOs: Be Bold and Get out of the Way
Jeremy Burton gives advice to CIOs on how best to enable their teams to drive digital and IT Transformation in an interview with John Gallant at Agenda 16 on March 22, 2016. The post Advice for...
View ArticleHybrid Cloud – A Clear Path to a Modern Data Center
EMC’s Audie Hittle recently spoke alongside Steven Posnack, Director, Office of Standards and Technology, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Lori Walsh, Chief,...
View ArticleInfoGov: The Force Awakens
I found a really thought-provoking article recently that confirms I am not the only person in the world who watches movies with an information governance (infogov) eye. I know it sounds weird, but...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons to Migrate off SQL Server 2005 Now
Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 has reached its end of life (EOL). After 11 years, it finally exited “extended support” on April 12, 2016. Now there are a number of options for where you can go next: SQL...
View ArticleState of IT Transformation – Solving the Operating Model Challenge
Part 4 in our global study of gaps in IT transformation We are continuing to hear that operating model is the most challenging part of IT transformation. Technology implementation is the easy part....
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