The Benefits and Pitfalls of Managing Big Data
Distributors increasingly have an enormous amount of information at their fingertips. While this Big Data represents a range of opportunities, it can also create headaches. Kicking off a new podcast series, Profit Levers, Jonathan Byrnes, founding partner of Profit Aisle and senior lecturer at MIT, outlines three areas where issues can arise. When RFID became popular […]
Protect Your Business and Prevent Ransomware Breaches with Cyber Hygiene
Do you have a cyber hygiene program in place? While physical hygiene has been top of mind of late, itās important to consider cyber hygiene as well. Just like properly washing your hands, itās critical to take the correct approach to protecting the security of your businessās digital and virtual assets.Ā The recent growth of […]
AT&T Submits White-Box Router Spec for Open Computing
AT&T submitted specifications for a new white-box architecture to the Open Compute Project (OCP), targeting service provider-class routers with chips optimized for 400 gigabits per second (400G) speeds to meet evolving network demands. Those demands result from new technologies such as 5G and fiber-based broadband services. To meet these growing demands, AT&T’s spec incorporates a […]
HCI, Cloud Integration: Key Features
The hybrid cloud is the platform of choice for IT organizations, and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a strong solution for the on-premises portion of that hybrid cloud. Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE have created on-premises offerings using their HCI products, sold on an as-a-service basis. This is a proof point for why HCI is an […]
Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz
Uncertainty around Docker Inc.’s business strategy amid executive shuffles prompted renewed inquiries about its long-term future, and industry watchers say an acquisition is the best-case scenario for the container software company at this point. Docker initially rose to prominence about five years ago, based on its format for LXC Linux container images. As that layer […]
Own Your Cloud Security
Itās hard to believe itās mid-October. Along with autumn, comes National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). The NCSAM 2019 focuses on personal accountability. Driven through mass public engagement, the āOwn IT. Secure. IT. Protect IT.ā theme will help to encourage personal accountability and proactive behavior in digital privacy, security best practices, common cyber threats and cybersecurity […]
VMware builds security unit around Carbon Black tech
VMware has wrapped up its $2.1 billion buy of cloud-native endpoint-security vendor Carbon Black and in the process created a new security business unit that will target cybersecurity and analytics to protect networked enterprise resources. When VMware announced the acquisition in August, its CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expected Carbon Black technology to be integrated […]
Why Data Center Virtualization Doesnāt Cut It at the Edge
Canāt I just use my same data center virtualization software at the edge? Zededa founder and CEO Said Ouissal says he hears this question a lot. The answer, he says, is a hard āno.ā As enterprises increasingly adopt edge computing, they want the same virtualization benefits that they are used to in their data centers […]
Get to know Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
With Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, IT administrators can control all aspects of their virtualization environments, including compute, storage and network resources, as well as the VMs consuming those resources. Oracle announced the general availability of Linux Virtualization Manager in June 2019. Linux Virtualization Manager is a comprehensive platform for configuring, managing and monitoring virtual server […]
Key differences between cloud storage offerings
Two key IT challenges that seem to come up a lot right now are how to take advantage of the cloud and what to do about ever-growing storage capacity needs. The fact is that the answer to each can also part answer the other question. When we consider what cloud is good at ā scale, […]
