When Lightning Strikes Your Enterprise
Lightning strikes nearly 300 days a year, or 80% of the time, in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, which NASA has declared the lightning capital of the world (Source: NY Times). In today’s enterprise, what...
View ArticleIdentity for Modern IT: A New Appreciation for User Experience
The following is a simple analysis that puts into perspective the user experience of modern IT that organizations typically require their users to endure: Imagine a midsize enterprise with 1,000...
View ArticleRegulatory Information Management – Where Are You on the Journey?
Life Sciences companies are under pressure to reduce the costs of regulatory operations and speed up health agency approval to accelerate time to market. However, this is no easy task! Each...
View ArticleWomen of World Embrace Risk and Dream Bigger
I’ve had the privilege of hosting Women of World at EMC World for the past three years. The event is always a highlight of the year for me because it serves as a unique opportunity for attendees to...
View ArticleCLEARING THE AIRQ: Does VCE support NSX? A: YES.
I want to expound on the headline here. It’s been almost 6 months since I’ve stepped into my current role leading the great team at EMC’s Converged Platform Division: VCE. During that time, I’ve...
View ArticleBe a Healthcare IT Hero….Not a Superhero……
As we roll into the warmer weather, all things are turning to the familiar sights and sounds of summer. One of my favorite signs of summer, aside from the rising mercury, is the arrival of the big...
View ArticleCorporate Wellness: Perk or Privacy Issue?
The competition for talent today is fierce and this is particularly true for knowledge-driven enterprises, where the majority of an organization’s assets are its people. For years, HR departments and...
View ArticleCyber Risk Appetite: Defining and Understanding Risk in the Modern Enterprise
In April, I wrote two blogs (How Hungry… and Appetite and Exercise) on the concept of risk appetite. I highlighted the fact that organizations must take on risk to drive growth within the business....
View Article“I am an imposter.”
I was invited to give a keynote at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress in Dublin recently, on behalf of my EMC colleague Said Tabet. Two years before, I had spoken at the CSA Congress in Rome...
View ArticleLive Web Seminar: Data Governance in a Big Data World
Topic: Data Governance in a Big Data World Date and Time: Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT Duration: 60 Minutes Conventional data governance focuses on controlling risk, maintaining...
View ArticleCatching a Breath, and Prepping for Energy’s Future
I was driving into the office and swerving to avoid potholes and large cracks on a popular highway here in California. “Why can’t they fix this road,” I thought, and this in fact led me to think about...
View ArticleStop Building Stuff That’s Boring
In an interview on theCube, Chad Sakac implores enterprise IT to “stop building the stuff that is boring… and doesn’t differentiate you one bit”, offers his predictions on the combination of Dell EMC...
View ArticleThe end of an era Is always the start of a new one.
I’ve been contemplating the news from Cisco this week on Tuesday – the departure of MPLS. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about here, Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero and...
View ArticleHow to Speed Up Incident Response
Having an incident response plan in place is key if you want the ability to speed up your company’s reaction to security incidents. However, a recent survey by the Security for Business Innovation...
View ArticleBuilding the Modern Data Center on a Foundation of Trust
If your organization is struggling with how to keep your enterprise data secure in the cloud, you aren’t alone. As I spoke with customers at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, how to migrate...
View ArticleSolving the Storage Persistence Problem in Containers
In an interview on theCube, Josh Bernstein talks about solving the challenge of storage persistence in containers and how in the world of open source the line between customers and vendors is...
View ArticleStop Building Stuff That’s Boring
In an interview on theCube, Chad Sakac implores enterprise IT to “stop building the stuff that is boring… and doesn’t differentiate you one bit”, offers his predictions on the combination of Dell EMC...
View ArticleThe Wearable Effect – how data from wearables can be used in a medical...
Many wearable devices are currently used for general wellness and monitoring, but it poses the question as to whether they should be used in a medical environment. According to IDC, the worldwide...
View Article5 Features of a Modern Service Experience
It’s been a fun few weeks, starting with a series of customer meetings in New York City. I’m always grateful to spend time with our customers and value our healthy discussions about what we do well as...
View ArticleBuilding rockstars in SOC
What makes detection most effective? I know you are thinking technology. However, if you have been in the security operations domain for long, you know the answer. It’s the “people” who use the...
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