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Is automation the solution to the cybersecurity catch-up game? | #Know16
Poor, overworked cybersecurity staff. All of Silicon Valley works busily year round to advance IT, develop new software and products, and then the security people are expected to come in and threat-proof everything with the wave of a wand. The situation is so frantic that Todd Pedersen, director of Cybersecurity Sales at Computer Sciences Corp. ...
Getting industry specific on the ‘maximum value journey’ | #Know16
As companies acclimate to cloud and digitization, more and more are looking for a shortcut to the best practices — not for John Doe’s business, but for their business. Busy managers don’t want to spend all day reading anecdotes about what worked for this company or that company, so they can take a haphazard guess at ...
Getting your disks in a row: Do you know how your IT is today? | #emcworld
On-prem, hybrid cloud, cloud-native, built-in, or as-a-service — it seems like the options for IT professionals are expanding daily. The more choices you have, the better able you are to customize infrastructure to meet your needs, so there’s no downside, right? Well, yeah, except when you have to take inventory of the performance and health ...
The customer’s always right: Does ‘socialized’ IT help build better products? | #emcworld
The next time you are negotiating a six-figure salary with a new developer, you might pause and wonder if you could just use free customer feedback to get the same value. One company has found that simply observing how customers interact with products is all it takes to build the next-generation release. Manuvir Das, SVP ...
NVMe: The next big thing in storage | #emcworld
Three years ago this June on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, one industry expert predicted that flash storage would be massively disruptive to the data center. Well, clearly that prediction came true, so we decided to welcome this prophet back to the show so he can use his psychic gifts to tell us what will be the ...
Can combining virtual machines and containers get you to ‘cloud-native nirvana?’ | #emcworld
With the tremendous activity in the cloud-native space these days, IT professionals may find themselves confused by all of the choices coming to market. Application development and deployment technologies are especially hot right now, and two of the biggest players are containers and VMware, Inc.’s services. “People really obsess around the virtual machines (VM) versus ...
Closing the gap: How to go from Big Data insights to actions | #emcworld
Businesses looking to use Big Data to achieve goals often complain that there are too few data scientists ready to hire and bring real results. One way to get the most out of the data professionals they do have is to make sure their IT environments give them the leg room the need. Describing the ...
Put that app in its place: Preparing for disaster with application tiering | #emcworld
With DevOps, Software-as-a-Service and the container craze, businesses are finding it easier than ever to design and deploy applications. But do they know where those applications are running in their infrastructure, their priority in their business, or how much it would cost them if it they stopped working? Anthony Kessel, director of product management at ...
Taking your vitamins: The importance of data protection | #emcworld
Big Data, data in marketing, real time data — the talk around data these days is often around the cool tricks it can do in applications. A less-hyped issue is how to protect your data so that it’s available when you need it. Beth Phalen, SVP and GM of data protection and availability solutions of ...
Will accounting changes make pay-by-drip model the new IT standard? | #emcworld
Most in IT think the subscription-based, as-a-service model is the best thing since sliced bread. But changes to accounting rules may cause some to question their devotion to the monthly, quarterly or yearly leasing agreements. Doug Sobieski, financial services sales executive at Avnet Technology Solutions (a global IT distribution distributor), talked with Stu Miniman (@stu), ...
