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Dec 13, 2019

Safety is on everyone’s mind these days. With the abundance of risks in the world and shocking, headline-making incidents in the news, it’s no wonder public safety is at the forefront. Video surveillance is the centerpiece of a robust security program. Thankfully, advancements in technol...

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Dec 13, 2019

Edge computing is a term that is becoming increasingly popular not just as a buzzword but as a way of understanding and modeling IT infrastructure in an era of pervasive cloud computing. With the rise of edge computing has come a need for edge security. Edge security isn't just about securing ed...

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Dec 11, 2019

Automation is the number one trend to impact IT infrastructure and operations in 2020 and beyond, according to Gartner. Ross Winser, senior research director at Gartner explained that while 2019 saw a focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing, automation will take precedence when the ...

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Dec 11, 2019

This past year, infrastructure trends focused on how technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or edge computing might support rapidly growing infrastructure and support business needs at the same time,” said Ross Winser, senior research director at Gartner. “While those demands are...

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Dec 10, 2019

The United States recognizes 16 distinct sectors of critical infrastructure, which are systems that are considered crucial to national economic security and national public health. Other countries have similar lists. Many of these sectors are common sense, such as food, water, and energy. One sector...

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Dec 10, 2019

The Cloud is no longer an option. It is the revolution that has become inevitable for businesses and more and more businesses are recognizing this and moving their data into the cloud. They are implementing mature cloud strategies that call for comprehensive cloud management solutions. They need a s...

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Dec 09, 2019

Increasingly, companies are moving their data and processing to cloud services. It’s easy for this out-of-sight data to be out of mind when it comes to security, but if anything, it should be top of mind because it's even more exposed than is on-premises data. With regulators issuing recor...

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Dec 09, 2019

How to develop and build infrastructure access control as you develop and deploy your software applications across your organisation. In nearly all applications, what you can see and what you can do depends entirely on who you claim to be and how that claim is verified. Without an identity maybe you...

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Dec 06, 2019

AWS Outposts is a converged infrastructure rack, announced at re Invent in Las Vegas this week. In effect this is Amazon’s public cloud in a box, delivering an all-AWS hybrid computing environment within the customer’s data centre. By coupling Outposts so tightly to AWS, Amazon is taking...

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Dec 06, 2019

As organizations adopt cloud computing and other digital transformation efforts, the ways that enterprise networks are used is changing. While this has an impact on network performance, it also changes how these networks must be secured. Traditional security models, where all traffic is routed throu...

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Dec 05, 2019

Thanks to IBM Z for sponsoring this episode. To learn more about the annual student contest, go to https://ibm.co/2Lb7pLp . To learn more about IBM Z and how mainframes shape the world, go to https://ibm.co/2OGXyyR It's a supercomputer! It's the cloud! No, it's a modern mainframe! M...

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Dec 05, 2019

Hyperscale and automation seem to go hand-in-hand, at least when it comes to the data center. Synergy Research reported that, at the end of 2017, there were 390 web-scale data centers worldwide, up from 300 a year earlier. IDC identified that hyperscale data centers “have a minimum of 5,000 se...

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Dec 05, 2019

There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with cloud-native deployments have heard all of the mantras about DevSecOps, shift-left security, multi-layer defenses and dynamic baselining (to name just s...

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Dec 04, 2019

Technology is the great enabler for all modern business growth, and databases of some sort or another underpin all modern business technology. Database technology is the infrastructure upon which modern applications and businesses are built. This is no different than what has occurred in the past wi...

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Dec 04, 2019

CPA firms that have experienced IT challenges driven by rapid change and growth should not run out and buy the newest, shiny hardware; hire an expensive IT director; or contract with a managed services partner. Before your firm can improve, you have to take steps to know what you don’t know, s...

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Dec 03, 2019

The benefits of SD-branch technology include improved security, advanced network visibility, and simplified LANs. Benefits are dependent on how SD-branch improves the branch location LAN and how the LAN connects to the larger SD-WAN and internet. SD-branch expands the virtualization principles of SD...

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Dec 03, 2019

In recent years, a high number of security breaches and data leaks have occurred, ranging from minor disruptions to high-impact hacks. Fortunately, organizations seem to be realizing the importance of cybersecurity, which has been confirmed by Gartner research into growing expenditures around securi...

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Dec 02, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced applications not only process data in new ways, they also process new types of data. Both sides of this equation bring new challenges for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Unlike traditional computer programs which are either deterministic or prob...

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Dec 02, 2019

NOCs are an integral aspect of modern IT Infrastructure. A Network Operations Center can transform the dynamics of business when the right engineers and all the necessary equipment are in place. In this blog, we will figure out how end-to-end Managed, 24X7 NOC Services help small-medium sized busine...

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Nov 29, 2019

The system, which is preconfigured, installed and ready for use on the basis of customer requirements, consists of a virtualization solution with suitable hardware and software components. Variants of the hardware platform enable scaling of the DataCenter.

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Nov 29, 2019

Automation of IT and cloud infrastructure has become a must in modern times. The rapid automation process is led by the surge of effective and helpful IT/cloud automation tools in the market. However, there are a lot of challenges while selecting tools, such as a lack of powerful computing, inconsis...

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Nov 29, 2019

Most of us have read about the recent Capital One breach, which exposed more than 100 million customer accounts. Yet far fewer people are familiar with the broader security conditions that led to that breach. That fact that the cloud is accessible through public APIs introduces a huge attack vector ...

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Nov 28, 2019

There isn’t any such thing as “economy of scale” when data centers are concerned. Bigger is always more complex and the public cloud cost just shifts from a capital expenditure (capex) to an operating expense (opex). Big data center “efficiency” is another tall tale, as...

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Nov 27, 2019

Innovations in software-defined infrastructure have had a major impact on the way IT departments provision and manage resources. As processing power and server density continues to increase, innovative IT engineers are developing exciting new ways to utilize them efficiently. One of the most versati...

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Nov 26, 2019

Discover how ASG Technologies provides a Capacity Planning solution with automated analysis, reporting, trending, forecasting and modeling. ASG allows companies to track resource usage, identify areas for improvement, and predict future needs—preventing unnecessary hardware and software purcha...

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Nov 26, 2019

How do you get the benefits of the cloud in your own data centre? Microsoft has been pondering this question for some time, coming up with a range of different solutions. At one end of the scale is the 'Azure-consistent' hardware portfolio, which starts with the rack-based Azure Stack Hub an...

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Nov 26, 2019

Theft is nothing new to banks. Since the beginning of the digital age, however, armed robbery has gone down. But this is not necessarily good news. Cyberattacks have been on the rise and are constantly evolving. And, unlike traditional money heists, consumer data breaches can bring greater financial...

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Nov 26, 2019

It may seem that when moving to microservices, the only thing you need to do is to code smaller projects and apply all those rules of loose coupling, independence etc, right? Actually no. Microservices need a whole organization shift, not only from the developers. This concerns management, project m...

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Nov 25, 2019

Tis the season!  Winter holidays are upon us, and with it brings the yearly high-volume online shopping season we all know as Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM). With the total US consumer spending estimated at over $717 billion in the 2018 BFCM season, retailers know that the next few weeks are ...

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Nov 25, 2019

Dynatrace provides cloud infrastructure monitoring as part of our all-in-one, full-stack software intelligence platform. In this short demo, see how easy it is to deploy Dynatrace and get actionable intelligence, not just more data.

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Nov 25, 2019

DevOps practitioners take heed: Cloud-native computing will be the overarching trend for enterprise application development in the 2020s. Cloud-native computing is a paradigm shift in enterprise technology that extends the hard-fought best practices of the cloud to all of IT. In particular, this app...

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Nov 25, 2019

Southeast Asia (SEA) has clinched the top spot globally as the mobile economy hot spot, taking over giant economies like China. This is due to the growth in smartphone penetration in this region, which is touted as the gateway to mobile commerce. In a report written by Facebook IQ and Bain & Com...

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Nov 22, 2019

Converged infrastructure is about more harmonious IT: Orchestrating individual parts to play together toward a single goal.Servers, storage, network and management all in tune, on beat and working together. CI offers specific benefits for multiple executive roles in your organization. Learn more.

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Nov 22, 2019

As enterprises adapt to the digital era, IT infrastructure approaches that worked well just a few years ago may no longer be adequate.IT departments need infrastructure that is easier to manage and faster to procure and to deploy. Infrastructure that is built with simplicity in mind enables a greate...

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Nov 22, 2019

IT is all about APIs and Automation now, but I think that sometimes we forget we are humans. I totally understand why everybody is trying to program and automate every single part of their IT and last week, at Tech Field Day 20 we attended a few sessions that were crazy cool about automation. The on...

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Nov 22, 2019

Oracle Database 19c is a long-term support release of the database, offering customers the best performance, scalability, reliability, and security for all their operational and analytical workloads. The core aim for 19c is stability, as it forms a foundation for next phase of autonomous database op...

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Nov 21, 2019

Watch Aprimo's modern workspaces in action. For the digital workplace, there's robust data visualization, agile features and more together in a frictionless enterprise experience. See your content, operations and performance through a whole new lens!

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Nov 21, 2019

At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of...

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Nov 21, 2019

Enterprises want to embrace the pace of innovation and an operational business model of the modern-day cloud, but they don’t want to disrupt their existing IT landscape or upgrade all their legacy applications. This presents a conundrum, as most legacy applications were not designed to run in ...

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Nov 20, 2019

What is the state of enterprise IT infrastructure, and what insights can we glean from the perspectives of the IT professionals responsible for its management and operation? To answer these questions and more, INAP surveyed 500 IT professionals with data center, server and cloud infrastructure respo...

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Nov 20, 2019

Is Flexible: Scalability is simplified due to the node-based architecture. Simply add or remove nodes as the demand requires. The software storage solution makes scalability very easy. HCI offers virtualisation as it allows an organisation to store data on premise, in a remote location or in the clo...

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Nov 20, 2019

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Nov 19, 2019

Download DataCore’s latest market survey to get unique insights from 400 ITprofessionals about how they are currently using or evaluating software-defined, hyperconverged, and cloud storage to solve their most critical data storage challenges—and discover more about what is currently dri...

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Nov 19, 2019

One of the greatest challenges in the IT industry is staying ahead of the cybercriminal. This is no easy task. The 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM Security, indicates that the chances of experiencing a data breach have increased from 22.6 pe...

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Nov 19, 2019

Companies across all industries are turning away from physical storage and computing power to cloud-based resources. This is good news and bad news for data centers. On one hand, more business for data centers — on the other, more demand and strain being put upon limited resources and hardware...

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Nov 18, 2019

If you are a business owner or manager that relies heavily on an efficient IT infrastructure, then you may be aware that this particular element of your business operations can often be expensive and time-consuming to manage. This is especially pertinent if you need to maintain up-to-date hardware a...

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Nov 18, 2019

In the past, customers bought infrastructure for key applications such as VMware, SAP HANA, Oracle, by buying servers from a vendor such as Lenovo, storage from a vendor like Hitachi and network switches from vendors like Cisco, Juniper. All three would be for the same application, and if something ...

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Nov 18, 2019

With large-scale technology disruption, organizations will need to respond in a transformational way. It means rethinking how organizations approach workforce skills and talent management. This report highlights the future skills your organization will need in 2020 and how you can prepare your workf...

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Nov 15, 2019

IT professionals continuously tackle new and ongoing challenges in connection to the operation and performance of their infrastructure. Managing an organization’s IT infrastructure is a demanding responsibility requiring experience, strategic thinking and the ability to balance current technol...

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Nov 15, 2019

Enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the next five years, according to a Nutanix survey. The vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85%) selected hybrid cloud as their ideal ...

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Nov 15, 2019

Many organizations are struggling with how to assess the broad set of risks stemming from cyber-attacks against the nation's critical infrastructure. Roughly 85% of the critical infrastructure in the US is managed and operated by private organizations, and if ours is one of these firms you have ...

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Nov 14, 2019

One of the toughest problems facing enterprise IT teams today is troubleshooting slow applications. When a user complains of slowness in application access, all hell breaks loose and the blame game begins: app owners, developers and IT ops teams enter into endless war room sessions to figure out wha...

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Nov 14, 2019

In this Elekta testimonial, Jeff Hallet, Director of Global Process Engineering, shares how replacing previous, document-based methods of managing their development process with their Blueprint Storyteller Agile Product Management Solution has brought significant value to their organization.

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Nov 14, 2019

Nothing strips the cloud’s ethereal aura like networking, laying bare its physical limitations and vagaries. When it comes to moving data to and from cloud infrastructure, all the technology Google, Amazon and Microsoft can muster can’t overcome the physics of photons traversing a set di...

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Nov 14, 2019

The damage caused by cyber attacks is increasing every year and it is only a matter of time before a company is successfully attacked. Not only Microsoft says again and again that a paradigm shift is necessary in dealing with IT security. "Assume Breach" is more present than ever. Our worl...

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Nov 13, 2019

Open offices are often loud, chaotic, and full of distractions that keep your team from getting work done. That’s where we come in, with solutions that avert open office perils. Open offices are often loud, chaotic, and full of distractions that keep your team from getting work done. That&rsqu...

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Nov 13, 2019

Many IT resources now reside outside the confines of corporate data centers. Cloud providers have convinced enterprises of the economic and operational benefits of widely distributed IT infrastructure and resources. For business, privacy, or other reasons, many customers choose to retain ownership o...

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Nov 13, 2019

Cloud computing enables the user to store, manage, and process data on a server hosted by the internet. This cloud is accessible through your local server or computer system but is provided by a remote server. Companies are increasingly taking up such services to improve their performance and, thus,...

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Nov 12, 2019

The IT ecosystem is changing. Today’s technology leaders must oversee a department that supports more customers, remote workers, BYOD policies, and IoT devices. They must also deliver cloud, video collaboration, and other bandwidth-hungry apps that today’s users crave.

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Nov 12, 2019

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is an enterprise tool that provides a unified view for IT-systems monitoring. Through proactive, comprehensive and integrated monitoring and reporting, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor gives complete visibility and control over the availability, performance and capacity of...

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Nov 12, 2019

What are the Top 10 IT Priorities, Business Issues and IT Challenges of SMBs in 2019? Data in infographics is based on Techaisle’s global SMB research. In its detailed SMB survey Techaisle investigated 21 different technology areas and several sub-categories, 23 different IT challenges and 21 ...

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Nov 12, 2019

An in-depth look at Azure Arc, a new way to manage your servers, virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters – even Azure data services on any infrastructure, any cloud, and any edge. Watch this to see how Azure Arc unifies management, governance, and control with your virtual and physical machin...

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Nov 12, 2019

The connectivity provided by cabling infrastructure is the foundation of every data center enabling the transactions that help businesses make mission-critical decisions every day. All data centers have various types of cabling, ranging from all-copper installation to all-fiber installation and ever...

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Nov 12, 2019

The Meaning and Importance of Digital Transformation should have made it aptly clear that though digital transformation is primarily about technology, it’s not solely about it. Essentially, it’s about connecting three pillars of every organization: People, Process, and Technology. Thus, ...

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Nov 11, 2019

It’s a well-documented trend that the rise of digital channels such as webchat, apps, FAQs, etc., has led to a change in the way contact centers handle interactions. The routine, “easy” interactions are now handled by self-service channels. Deflecting these low-value interactions h...

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Nov 11, 2019

The network edge computing is making strong inroads and is a culmination of IoT, AI and machine learningAccording to Gartner, edge computing will be a necessary requirement for all digital businesses by 2022 Part of the challenge for the C-suite is ensuring leaders have enough understanding and digi...

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Nov 11, 2019

There is a rapid industry transition underway to a hybrid multicloud style of computing. It’s happening across all industries and all lines of business and being pushed along by stakeholders from IT managers to the C-suite and shareholders. Although the transition to hybrid multicloud infrastr...

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Nov 08, 2019

Public cloud adoption continues to grow rapidly. It’s anticipated that by 2021 about 35% of enterprise workloads will be cloud-based. According to a McKinsey’s & Company 2018 IT-is-a-service survey titled “Transforming infrastructure operations for a hybrid-cloud world,” ...

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Nov 08, 2019

We’re at a fascinating moment in the financial services sector’s adoption of cloud technology. Industry reports highlight the unequal pace of change between early adopters and those who are slower to investigate the cloud route – often due to a perceived lack of data security and c...

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Nov 08, 2019

As organizations continue down the path of digital transformation, the move to the cloud has become a given, and hybrid- and multi-cloud environments have become the solutions of choice. But while this brave, new multi-cloud world offers the portability, flexibility, and security enterprises desire,...

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Nov 07, 2019

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Nov 07, 2019

This is part 2 in a 6-part series on storage for hybrid multicloud. In Part 1 I set the stage–getting us all on the same page with the terminology of hybrid multicloud. In Part 2 we’re going to explore what’s behind this rapid industry shift toward hybrid multicloud infrastructure....

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Nov 07, 2019

Cyberattacks are on the rise and threatening our digital life and our most intimate information  but also our operational realities. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, water works, airports and the like (transportation ranks among the highest-value targets for cyberattacke...

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Nov 06, 2019

This is the 46th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch.com contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology progress. Once again, this is a topic that will be familiar to IT folks but not so much for physical secu...

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Nov 06, 2019

Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it was making its composable infrastructure technology smarter, faster, and more reliable by integrating it with its new high-end Primera storage system. The company pioneered the composable infrastructure market, first by introducing its blade server-based HPE Synerg...

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Nov 05, 2019

On LinkedIn, Ron C. of CoreSolutions Software said, “Cybersecurity is no longer just a technical problem. It’s now more of a people problem! So why aren’t businesses prioritizing security awareness training for their staff?” There was a massive response and mixed agreement. R...

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Nov 05, 2019

This Hydro One case study from Capgemini presents how Hydro One needed to transform its IT infrastructure to meet market demands and the resulting greater visibility, lower costs and optimized service. By designing a modernized, high-performance computing environment, Hydro One now enjoys a certifie...

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Nov 05, 2019

As physical infrastructure systems age beyond their warranties, software tools no longer reflect or comprehend reality, and operations & maintenance (O&M) programs grow outdated and/or become under-staffed, the risk of an interruption in service goes up significantly. Aging data centers must...

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Nov 04, 2019

The decision to shift workloads to the cloud is loosely similar to building your own house. There is an assurance of the exact customizations you desire and room for expansion. However, time and capital investment often outweigh tolerating legacy on-premise systems with aging hardware and outdated s...

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Nov 04, 2019

A data security breach is one of the most terrible things that could happen to any organization. In 2018, the average cost of a data security breach regardless of the organization reached $3.9 million, an all-time high. This number in itself is easy to explain if you consider how most organizations ...

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Nov 04, 2019

The dominant pricing approach today for on-premises storage is CAPEX. But that is changing. The economics of cloud consumption-based pricing is influencing on-premises purchases. According to IDC[1], “A perfect utility-based model would be the equivalent of how consumers view their electric or...

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Nov 01, 2019

There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest growing technologies today. The need for AI is sweeping across industries as disparate as automotive, manufacturing, transportation, communications, retail, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, and financial ...

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Oct 31, 2019

Data migration takes many forms, including moving data between storage locations or mediums, changing the format of the data, and sharing or importing data between applications. It’s required when retiring a legacy system, introducing new apps or services, migrating to the cloud, or consolidat...

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Oct 31, 2019

Connecting billions of devices to the cloud presents numerous challenges, bandwidth restrictions, data security risks and reduced communication between computing infrastructure. Edge computing has the potential to prevent such issues from arising as the physical infrastructure is located closer to t...

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Oct 31, 2019

Data is the foundation of the new economy. Almost no one is using less data today than they did yesterday, and we will all probably consume even more data tomorrow. This growing tsunami of data has to live somewhere. That reality has fueled the rise of the hyperscale data center – a super-size...

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Oct 31, 2019

The potential for digital transformation provides organizations of all sizes with the opportunity to re-imagine their operating models and transform their businesses for the digital economy. To support this, SAP’s next generation digital business framework—featuring SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Fiori 2.0...

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Oct 31, 2019

Today’s IT teams are expected to drive enterprise-class digital transformation initiatives. However, that’s proving an issue for many—particularly as the extended nature of today’s end-to-end business processes means that even the smallest software application changes can have a disrupting impact on...

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Oct 31, 2019

What Is Holding It Back? Most IT organizations deal with complex and siloed infrastructure that require large teams of highly skilled specialists to keep up and running. These legacy environments force teams to spend a disproportionate amount of time on tending to infrastructure, and less on applica...

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Oct 30, 2019

Digital transformation and the movement to the cloud is happening now. With this migration, the benefits that organizations expect to reap include agility, control, flexibility, and improved network performance. And don't forget about cost savings and strong return on investments! Migrating a da...

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Oct 30, 2019

IT and development roles have been in a continual state of flux over the past several years. CIOs and IT managers must immerse themselves in the business while staying on top of the latest cloud and software architectures, all to gain a marketplace and cost advantage. DevOps principles have taken a ...

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Oct 30, 2019

T-Systems now offers companies a solution that radically simplifies the management of complex cloud landscapes. With Multi & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Management T-Systems showed at the DIGITAL X* how customers can manage Public and Private Clouds according to their needs – while ben...

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Oct 29, 2019

We’re blowing it with general cybersecurity education. According to a study by the Pew Internet Research Center, most Americans don’t understand or can’t identify basic cybersecurity concepts such as two-factor authentication, private browsing, or the purpose of a privacy policy. W...

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Oct 29, 2019

DevOps has transformed the IT industry by changing the way teams operate and collaborate in the process chain and workflow.By now, many organizations all over have attained some level of DevOps implementation part of their software process. While, there are also a few in the understanding DevOps imp...

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Oct 29, 2019

Did you know that 86% of enterprises have more than a quarter of their IT infrastructure running in cloud environments? Read some of the takeaways that IT leaders revealed in the report ‘Adapt or Perish: The OpsRAmp Report on Modern IT Operations in the Digital Age’. Find out what top ta...

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Oct 27, 2019

Explore a new, transformative hybrid IT experience with HPE ProLiant Gen10 Servers, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. They deliver the agility and economics of the cloud with the control and protection organizations are used to with an on-premises data center.

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Oct 25, 2019

Welcome back to another instalment of DATA CENTRE 101! We're back with Ash who's dissecting a spare 1U HP DL360 G6 SERVER server from the data centre and talking you through its components, uses and giving general insight into what servers do! Give us a LIKE, COMMENT (new ideas and wants!) o...

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Oct 25, 2019

As IT infrastructure grows more complex, data centre operators are looking for solutions that can help them simplify. This search for simplicity has led many IT leaders to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), an approach to IT architecture that combines storage, computing and networking into a singl...

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Oct 24, 2019

Major macro, technology and regulatory trends have created a new normal in every industry: If your IT infrastructure isn’t digital-ready, your business can’t compete. As enterprise technology continues to become increasingly seamless, it’s imperative that businesses continue to bri...

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Oct 24, 2019

For businesses, IT platforms such as Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) systems are playing an increasingly business-critical role. After all, many corporate processes have long been based on IT technologies. What advantages an HCI solution offers and how companies can integrate the solution into ...

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Oct 23, 2019

If you’re like me, one of the first things you do when you leave the house in the morning is put on your headset. I may be joining a meeting, calling a friend, getting coffee – sometimes all three – before I even set foot in the office. When I get to work, I’m collaborating w...

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Oct 23, 2019

According to management's guidance, network vendor Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) should end its streak of year-over-year revenue declines at nine consecutive quarters when it reports results on Oct. 24. That quarter should show a decline, but the next one is expected to show growth. But its cloud business...

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Oct 23, 2019

Much has changed since serverless computing arrived, along with AWS Lambda in November 2014. Kubernetes has taken IT infrastructure by storm, developers have embraced containers, and IT now embraces public clouds as providers of managed services.But beyond the dominance of Lambda, is there something...

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Oct 22, 2019

It seems like every photo shown of a business in action these days features a bunch of people in a huddle room, looking productive – just like our own Poly beauty shot below. But the technology that is IN the room really matters most to the people who are joining remotely – the people NO...

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Oct 22, 2019

IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, refers to cloud based services that are not full end user functional products of themselves. Google Drive is an SaaS, AWS Glacier is IaaS. IaaS offers core components of your infrastructure to provide services ranging from Backup Storage Locations to Content Delive...

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Oct 22, 2019

Hybrid cloud. Hybrid multicloud. Hybrid IT. These terms are becoming part of our standard infrastructure lexicon, but what’s the real difference between them? Although they’re not interchangeable, they are closely related to one another. Hybrid cloud typically refers to orchestrating ser...

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Oct 22, 2019

The world is closer to the next decade of 2020 and like most predictions, it is going to be a great one for technological advancements ! Technological innovations have outdone themselves by creating a world with efficient and easier services. Data has become the biggest asset to an enterprise and pe...

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Oct 21, 2019

Corporate network infrastructure is only going to get more  involved  over the next two to three years as automation, network challenges and hybrid cloud become more integral to the enterprise.Those were some of the main infrastructure trend themes espoused by Gartner vice president and di...

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Oct 21, 2019

Cloud migration - the process of moving data and applications from IT infrastructure on-site within an organisation to the cloud - remains a key priority for many businesses. Indeed, it is predicted that 83 per cent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020, with public cloud platforms su...

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Oct 21, 2019

It’s no secret that the cybersecurity industry has grown exponentially over more than a decade due to the proliferation of high-profile cybercrime. Viewing cybersecurity as simply a necessary step to mitigate cyber risk leaves much opportunity on the table. Organizational leaders need to see c...

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Oct 18, 2019

SD-branch is a way of extending software-defined principles to a branch location. It is characterized by a simplified hardware ecosystem, remote centralized management, and automation through programmability.By using underlying SD-WAN technology, SD-branch is a means of spinning up IT environments a...

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Oct 18, 2019

As the wave of digitization sweeps more enterprises with each passing day, the threats posed to organizations, particularly IT organizations, have never been more complex and pressing. With cybercrime statistics, including those for more targeted crimes (such as phishing) pointing towards an alarmin...

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Oct 17, 2019

Transforming data into actionable insights is an essential piece of any Data Transformation journey. As data volume and sources explode, organizations need to create a flexible, dynamic infrastructure that supports an analytics-focused data strategy.In this white paper from Western Digital, you&rsqu...

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Oct 16, 2019

The cloud pie worth US$146 billion in 2017 (Forrester) is large enough for small and mid-scale enterprises to find their own profitable niche. Based on eInfochips direct experience with cloud solution clients, success in this market depends less on having deep pockets than having a culture which cel...

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Oct 16, 2019

Does your IT environment have equipment from a mix of vendors that mostly plays well together, but not always? Use homogeneous HPE Rack and Power Infrastructure products to build or add to your current mission-critical servers, networking , and storage systems and improve density optimization, power...

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Oct 16, 2019

Pioneering the new edge services model of enterprise and cloud computingThat phrase may be the four most important words in today’s press release, in which our partner -- Pensando Systems – announced it has emerged from stealth and unveiled a first-of-its-kind distributed computing platf...

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Oct 16, 2019

What’s in a number? Plenty, according to cloud computing company Nutanix. Nutanix sells hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), which combines storage, networking and compute in a single appliance. This is easier to manage than three-tier architecture, and is also an essential component on an org...

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Oct 16, 2019

In this video I introduce you to 6 AWESOME Open Source & Free software products for use in your IT Infrastructure! pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/ pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more. OPNSense ...

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Oct 16, 2019

The stage is set for further data center consolidation, according to a new research note from MoffettNathanson, a financial research firm with a data center specialty. For evidence, the researchers note that private sources of capital recently have raised or allocated capital to focus on communicati...

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Oct 16, 2019

Can Data Warehousing Enhance the Value of Data Visualization & Reporting? Organizations rely heavily on data to make crucial business decisions. Hence, it is important for your business to have access to relevant data. That is where a well-designed data warehousing comes to your rescue!Besides g...

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Oct 16, 2019

Succeeding with ABM includes taking a broader, more end-to-end approach to measurement. What’s more, successful ABMers move beyond core systems for their planning, executing and reporting. This infographic shows the importance of looking beyond standard reporting methods, adding lead scoring t...

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Oct 14, 2019

With a wide range of offerings such as remote monitoring, security services, desktop, database and server administration, Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Services offer a high value to the IT industry towards the goal of business continuity.Facing hurdles with scattered IT infrastructure?Stru...

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Oct 14, 2019

There’s no question that many of today’s older adults are technologically savvy.Smartphone ownership among seniors has nearly quadrupled since 2013, according to the Pew Research Center. Roughly one-third of adults 65 and older own tablets.Such growth has prompted senior living communiti...

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Oct 14, 2019

Where and how corporate data is stored and the structure of the data itself are decisive factors in IT. They are also key to the success of companies in the digital age. However, this requires a consortium that can cover all aspects conscientiously. The Hybrid Cloud Community met at the beginning of...

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Oct 14, 2019

Is your organization struggling to implement cloud solutions across the enterprise? Gateway Digital uses latest technologies and cloud-based solutions to help businesses across sectors to transform their applications, infrastructure, and business processes. Check out this infographic to know all abo...

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Oct 14, 2019

The Perfect storm of Digital Data Everyone knows the best time to prepare for a storm is before it actually happens—but what happens when you end up right smack in the center? In a digital sense, we’ve been braving seismic gusts of disruption for decades. That’s the nature of the i...

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Oct 13, 2019

Infrastructure automation is no longer optional.It is at the core of many of the major changes happening in enterprise information technology. DevOps requires it. Modern infrastructure technologies such as containers and public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service enable it. Managing the coming prolife...

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Oct 11, 2019

Flexibility, scalability, controlled costs, automation, compliance with new application architectures and Big Data. From physical resources to logical ones, virtualization in its various forms is the first ingredient for digital business infrastructures ontainer, microservices, serverless, DevOps. T...

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Oct 11, 2019

In the past decade, a number of organizations have adopted cloud technology. As reported by Forbes in 2018, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020.The benefits of the cloud become especially valuable for SMEs (small-to-medium enterprises) without the infrastructure to support their...

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Oct 10, 2019

It’s impossible to create a security system that removes the user from the equation. They are integral and they have to be part of your security program. Security is defined by the individual. The minimum expectation you can have of your users is that they’ll operate in good faith. Avoid...

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Oct 10, 2019

If you run a digital agency, you’re likely acutely aware of the challenges that come with managing your largest and most complex campaigns. There are so many potential IT pain points that can have an impact on delivery, agility and effectiveness: cost optimization and predictability, future-pr...

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Oct 09, 2019

When you’re deploying IT infrastructure for OT solutions, you’ve got a lot to consider. ►Learn more about EcoStruxure: https://www.schneider-electric.us/en/... In the past, it was common to keep all operational technology (OT) on-premise. But now, cloud and hybrid environments offer too ...

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Oct 09, 2019

When agencies seek to develop or improve upon artificial intelligence applications, they often find that many of today’s IT systems are not robust enough to manage AI workloads at scale -- nor can they scale up and offer security at the speed required for AI modeling.  This is especially ...

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Oct 09, 2019

Many businesses are looking to break free from yesterday’s on-premises storage solutions and embrace a cloud-first mentality. It’s no wonder why: legacy storage hardware has increasingly become a burden to manage, is difficult to upgrade, and in many cases unable to keep up with growing ...

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Oct 08, 2019

In the last few years, businesses have begun to realize the need for a modernized IT infrastructure. In order to keep up with demand, their competitors and the trends within the industry, your IT infrastructure needs to be up to scratch – no matter what the size of your business or what indust...

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Oct 07, 2019

As it has emerged over the past few years, the cloud has really revolutionized business and allowed us to do amazing things with web-deliveredtechnologies.However, one of the biggest issues around the cloud has always been, and still is, cybersecurity. (Read The Truth About Cybersecurity.The cloud b...

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Oct 07, 2019

We had to move out of the data center. Where do you move a technology company these days? As we improved the way we develop FINN.no we overloaded the underlying server network. We needed an alternative to on-premise hosting or risk not being able to grow our hundred million USD business any further....

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Oct 04, 2019

By making the right decisions and following best practices, leading organizations can easily combine the best of on-premise and cloud in order to reap significant benefits in faster delivery, improved reliability and savings on IT costs.Through on-premise virtualization infrastructures, businesses g...

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Oct 04, 2019

Incidents like cybercrimes, cyber espionage, and cyber warfare are increasingly making headlines. From personal to organizational levels; cybercrime has become a common tool to accomplish malicious goals. Terrorist organizations and rogue nations are funding cybercriminals to breach security network...

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Oct 03, 2019

A new special report, courtesy of Iron Mountain, explores how the hyperscale data center is reshaping the global IT landscape, shifting data from on-premises computer rooms and IT closets to massive centralized data center hubs. Workloads are consolidating in the world’s largest and most effic...

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Oct 03, 2019

A Multi-Layered Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protects Data Both Inside and Outside Your Network
Everyone is aware that cybersecurity is critical for all types and sizes of organizations. But with cloud computing being relatively new, many don’t fully understand where cloud security shou...

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Oct 03, 2019

The infrastructure your business runs on is one of the main factors in the speed, security, and reliability of your IT system’s performance. The performance of infrastructure, particularly legacy, on-premise infrastructure, tends to degrade over time. As your business grows and its workloads c...

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Oct 02, 2019

There’s no denying how valuable event marketing can be for any B2B business. Studies have shown that 84% of B2B leaders believe events are critical components of business success. But not all event marketing strategies are created equal. Without the right strategy, events can quickly become a ...

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Oct 02, 2019

It’s hard to argue against the promises of account-based marketing (ABM). Focusing your marketing efforts on ideal accounts that are actively in the market for your products and services seems like a recipe for success in any industry. But the truth is that many ABM programs fail to achieve me...

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Oct 02, 2019

Companies big and small are today able to expand operations without committing to huge resources and undergoing the hassle of setting up new IT infrastructures, and yet can still benefit from unlimited scalability, improved reliability, seamless service, and lower costs. The adoption of cloud comput...

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Oct 01, 2019

Data Center Frontier continues to explore strategic data center markets and niches via our DCF Special Reports. We have partnered with Iron Mountain to explore the hyperscale data center market, and how its growth has changed how we compute. This excerpt from a recent Hyperscale Data Center report e...

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Oct 01, 2019

Happy National Cyber Security Awareness Month from Liquid Web! We believe this effort to create a safe, secure, and resilient cyber environment is worthy of commemoration. This year, NCSAM’s central message is Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT, with the theme of personal accountability and proacti...

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Sep 30, 2019

The greatest investment your company can make is in its people—specifically sales reps. Unfortunately, most organizations don't see the real impact of their top performers until they leave—and the cost to replace them is often high. This is why, to retaining high-performing sales rep...

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Sep 30, 2019

There is a rapid industry transition under way to a hybrid multicloud style of computing. It’s happening across all industries and all lines of business and being pushed along by stakeholders from IT managers to the C-suite to the shareholders. Although the transition is touching every area of...

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Sep 30, 2019

Real-time analytics is only valuable if the systems that collect, move, and analyze that data are up and running. This has drawn increased attention to availability, time to recovery, and disaster recovery itself.In the past, you may have considered your IT infrastructure to be efficient if IT syste...

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Sep 27, 2019

Advanced software defined systems, also called as virtualization, is the initial step of the software defined data center. Due to increasing complexity in IT infrastructure and operations, certain technologies such as virtualization and cloud are being implemented in order to adapt to myriad busines...

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Sep 27, 2019

As long as there has been data, there has been a need to put that data somewhere. This led to the creation of the database, and these data management systems have been evolving ever since. Now, databases are shifting more and more into the cloud – Gartner has predicted that 80 per cent of new ...

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Sep 27, 2019

Trotz all der Gerüchte und Halbwahrheiten, die sich um das Thema künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Machine Learning (ML) ranken, handelt es sich bei diesen Technologien um mehr als abstrakte Vorstellungen und hypothetische Anwendungen. KI und ML werden bereits als Grundlage für Tools genutzt, die Ents...

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Sep 27, 2019

Die Technologie des IT-Monitoringsschreitet schnell voran, was zueinemgroßenTeil auf Machine Learning und Predictive Analytics (auf Deutsch auchgerneals „vorausschauende“ oder „prädiktiveAnalyse“ bezeichnet) zurückzuführenist. Wenn Sie nochimmer auf eine Legacy-IT-Lösungsetzen, verzichten Sie auf vi...

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Sep 26, 2019

Businesses have been investing heavily in their cybersecurity infrastructure. However, mobile devices in most organizations remain an unprotected asset – an easy way in for opportunistic cybercriminals. As a result, mobile devices are increasingly involved in security breaches. According to th...

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Sep 26, 2019

As organizations continue moving to the cloud,  many of them are running into obstacles that are making the move difficult. It's important to have assistance, and that's why IBM Services for Cloud Migration is a great choice when it comes to migrating and modernizing any workload to any...

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Sep 26, 2019

Most Enterprises have their IT infrastructure spread across private, public and hybrid clouds making management of such a distributed setup a complex task. A mobile workforce that requires anytime, anywhere access to a plethora of applications and data adds to the challenge. This next-gen dynamic wo...

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Sep 26, 2019

Accelerate innovation and digital transformation with a resilient infrastructure designed to connect and share information across your distributed enterprise.

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Sep 25, 2019

Most organizations still conduct sales planning as a manual, once-per-year exercise, due to the painful and time-consuming nature of the process. Since this is traditionally viewed as a burdensome task, it’s common that once sales plans are set in motion, companies rarely go back to evaluate a...

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Sep 25, 2019

In anticipation of the rollout of 5G in Singapore next year, the question facing security teams today is: How can 5G-enabled networks be secured?As networks become ever more complex, so do the challenges, dangers and potential complications surrounding their security. The strategies of yesterday are...

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Sep 25, 2019

The cloud has seen many highs and lows since its advent. Earlier this decade, many major enterprises questioned whether a cloud platform could ever replace an on-premises infrastructure. This was followed by a period of euphoria, when companies eagerly moved their data to the public cloud. Today it ...

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Sep 25, 2019

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure represents a new generation of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure targeted at both managed service providers and end customers. It is a scale-out, cost-efficient, and multi-purpose cyber protection solution that combines universal storage and high-performance virtualization....

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Sep 25, 2019

The successful IPOs of both CrowdStrike and Cloudflare have brought increasing attention to the lucrative information security industry. The ongoing shift to hybrid cloud infrastructure is expanding the enterprise perimeter beyond on-premise firewalls and has made cloud security the fastest-growing ...

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Sep 24, 2019

Forrester Research, Inc. evaluated Aprimo among the 14 most significant DAM providers based on 28 criteria. Aprimo received the highest scores possible in 20 criteria, including Metadata & Taxonomy, Workflow & Approvals, Content Performance Analytics, Scalability, and Product Vision.

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Sep 24, 2019

We simply don’t hear enough good news cybersecurity stories that make those involved proud. What are the cybersecurity stories that aren’t being told publicly that should be? Michael Farnum, Set Solutions, said, “If you come into the job and aren’t willing to critically revie...

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Sep 24, 2019

View this video to learn how Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) from Hitachi Vantara helps organizations to turn big data into actionable insights. PDI aligns IT infrastructure with business strategy without sacrificing data agility.

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Sep 24, 2019

What steers digital transformation in the right direction? It is the potential to innovate new digital capabilities rapidly that offer the power to enhance business agility in a significant manner. There are certain aspects to the Cloud capabilities, like scaling storage resources dynamically with a...

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Sep 23, 2019

If terms like “converged secondary storage” and “hyperconverged storage” make you feel like you’ve just stepped into an episode of Star Trek, you aren’t alone. Compared to traditional data center infrastructure models, these are relatively new concepts. However, m...

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Sep 23, 2019

The internet was originally designed by U.S. military researchers to establish a communications channel in case of nuclear war. Sixty years later, the indexed web has spawned more than five billion pages, and American adults now spend 11 hours a day staring at screens, according to Nielsen.The web i...

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Sep 23, 2019

Technology Solutions Outside The Box. - IT Infrastructure Management and Deployment. - VoIP Solutions - Cloud Server Solutions - Technology Procurement (Software, Hardware, Consumables) - Platform Integration - Automated Processing - Complete Remote Infrastructure Monitoring Service

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Sep 23, 2019

Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) manages the data centers and provide 24/7 support for business computing activities of information technology (IT) services. Infrastructure and Operations also support the infrastructure for desktop computers by maintaining the infrastructure of the operating ...

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Sep 23, 2019

Excess power capacity drags down operating efficiency and inflates operational expenditures (opex), and there are two main reasons this condition exists: a sub-optimal specifying process and the natural human desire for a security blanket.As a leader in data center infrastructure, it’s not unc...

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Sep 23, 2019

IT monitoring technology is moving forward rapidly, thanks in large part to machine learning and predictive analytics. If you’re still getting by with a legacy IT solution, you’re missing out on a lot more than a shiny object. The benefits of a New IT approach are being proven every day. Download yo...

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Sep 23, 2019

Imagine a world where incident alerts arrive 30 minutes before problems even begin — you’d actually have the power to prevent outages and deliver a truly seamless experience to your customers. Sound impossible? Think again — the right AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) solution can he...

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Sep 20, 2019

Increasing sales adoption of Priority Engine, incorporating its data into other systems, and measuring its success are a few key areas in which Priority Engine users commonly seek advice. We recently met with a variety of Priority Engine users and gathered their experiences tackling these common cha...

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Sep 20, 2019

For a business, it becomes extremely paramount to execute cloud solutions to achieve resilience, scalability, affordability, and security. Without the proper competence and prowess, not only your business bottom line is affected but also your operational expense takes a hike.
Hence, it is qui...

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Sep 19, 2019

When you read about the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities today’s DAM vendors offer, you’ll be faced with a myriad of choices. You’ll find everything from claims of automated, out-of-the-box AI to the ability to ‘train your own AI.’ To help make sense of these c...

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Sep 19, 2019

The advent of 5G mobile broadband technology promises to revolutionise the way people communicate with machines, and the way organisations across the board conduct business. “5G will enable instantaneous connectivity for billions of devices, the Internet of things (IoT) and a world that is tru...

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Sep 19, 2019

The Department of Defense needs a “smart edge” computing infrastructure to better leverage the capabilities of artificial intelligence and support warfighters at the tactical edge, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. The smart edge architecture allows drones, mobile devices and sensors to trans...

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Sep 18, 2019

Despite a lot of hype around ABM in the B2B tech sector, some marketers are reluctant to launch ABM programs out of a concern that it’s just too difficult. In this short video, Executive Vice President Bill Crowley recommends a more practical approach: TechTarget’s ABM and purchase inten...

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Sep 18, 2019

Spreadsheets are the most common tool used to manage data in sales organizations. In fact, more than 75% of companies rely on spreadsheets for their sales planning, forecasting, and sales compensation management. However, the business landscape is growing increasingly competitive—can tradition...

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Sep 18, 2019

Rob Hirschfeld presented this IaC / CI DC in Sept 2019 at Cloud Austin.Topics covered include: Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, IaaS, Terraform, Intent Driven Automation, Immutable Infrastructure.

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Sep 18, 2019

Rob Hirschfeld, Founder, and CEO of RackN breaks Infrastructure As Code (IaC) into six core concepts so users have a better understanding of it.

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Sep 18, 2019

So, after several years of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) being the dominant topic of conversation with IT Managers, a new kid has appeared on the block naming themselves disaggregated Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, dHCI for short. HPE have introduced into their portfolio a new product propos...

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Sep 18, 2019

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been increasingly adopted in enterprise data centers. This is something we’ve seen in our interactions with IT clients and have confirmed by survey results this past year, and, in fact, every year we’ve conducted it. Enterprise IT organizations hav...

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Sep 18, 2019

Bert Schulze, VP SAP S/4HANA Product Management & Co-Innovation, SAP SE, introduces SAP S/4HANA 1809. In his video, he explains how intelligence is achieved in the latest release, which tools can be used, and the benefits users can take advantage of when using SAP S/4HANA 1809.

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Sep 18, 2019

Few people have the ability to connect technology, business and people with as much insight and relevance as SAP evangelist Tom Raftery. During his Innovation Talk at the SAP Festival in Brussels, Tom highlighted the impact of new technologies on our personal lives and how enterprises need to be tru...

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Sep 18, 2019

My role here at SAP is IoT Evangelist. It’s my job to go around and speak about how the Internet of Things is changing the way we live, work, and run our businesses. IoT Evangelist is a job title that didn’t exist 5 or 10 years ago – mainly because the Internet of Things wasn&rsquo...

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Sep 18, 2019

The age of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is over. Electric cars are the future. The transition has just begun, but the move from ICE vehicles to Electric will happen sooner and more quickly than most people suspect. What are the factors that lead me to say this with such confidence? However, ...

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Sep 17, 2019

Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3.1 offers support for a shared storage volume for quicker availability of content to the clients. Red Hat Update Appliance and the CDSs are able to leverage the same storage location, which reduces synchronization times between the Red Hat Update Appliance and the CDSs...

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Sep 16, 2019

Tagging based on AI enables assets to be tagged automatically upon ingestion. This smart tagging service creates tags or metadata without human intervention, saving marketers time while reducing the potential for human error. Most importantly, tagging assets or adding metadata to assets using AI imp...

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Sep 16, 2019

For many B2B marketers, attracting and generating leads is often the primary goal. However, how to attract leads varies widely from company to company. While the inbound lead generation strategy should be unique to your firm, there are several best practices or do’s and don’ts for attrac...

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Sep 16, 2019

As customers increasingly adopt HCI for its ease of deployment, reduced complexity, scalability, and simplified approach to moving and assigning virtual resources to workloads, they often overlook its challenges with fixed scaling, creating new silos, and vendor, technology, or architectural lock-in...

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Sep 16, 2019

Build Day Live is about IT, mostly Enterprise IT. The idea is simple: alternate instruction of Day One install to your data center. We talk with the engineers and execs who plan, create, and deploy the hardware or software solution into your IT environment.

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Sep 16, 2019

Only 37% of U.S. convenience-store retailers said their current IT infrastructure is capable of handling peak periods of consumer checkout, according to a study from software provider Zynstra. The study identifies key priorities and obstacles c-store retailers face as they work to deliver better cus...

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Sep 14, 2019

In the last few years, Account-based Marketing has taken over as a better way to engage with modern B2B buyers. When sixty-nine percent of marketers say converting leads is their top priority, a winning ABM strategy requires sound alignment between the sales and marketing functions—and, as the...

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Sep 13, 2019

Cenitex, an Australian ICT services agency, needed to modernize its business and digital infrastructure to manage rapidly changing customer needs and increasing demand for digital government services. The agency embarked on a transformation project, deploying VMware’s software-defined solution...

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Sep 12, 2019

For many people, the words “college student” conjure the image of a recent high school graduate who lives on a university campus and goes to school full time. But higher education institutions know better. Nontraditional students who are older, live off campus, work, raise families and a...

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Sep 12, 2019

For IT leaders, this new technology represents a drastic shift in philosophy and a walk into the great unknown. Cloud changed the way organizations think about development cycles simply by providing a highly flexible platform in which to work. Composable infrastructure is the most robust data center...

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Sep 12, 2019

With the proliferation of cloud computing, mobility and big data analytics, the data-driven era, dubbed as The Fourth Industrial Revolution, has drastically evolved the Chief Information Officer's (CIO) role beyond managing operations and infrastructure. According to studies, CIOs are viewed as ...

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Sep 12, 2019

The client is a US-based multinational life sciences consulting firm, and Contract Research Organization (CRO). It is the second largest clinical research organization in the world and has helped develop approximately 95% of the 200 top-selling biopharmaceuticals on the market today.

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Sep 12, 2019

Bigtincan is the industry's leading Sales Enablement Automation platform, empowering Sales teams to win more and be more productive every day, while providing Marketing the ability to establish ROI on content creation efforts.

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Sep 11, 2019

We announced AWS Outposts at re:Invent last December and since then have seen immense customer interest. Customers have been asking for an AWS option on-premises to run applications with low latency and local data-processing requirements. AWS Outposts is a new service slated to launch in late 2019, ...

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Sep 10, 2019

Sales forecasting is the map of estimated sales performance, revenue, and expenses that guide a sales organization in their planning processes. Having an accurate sales forecast is crucial to driving revenue, growth, and profitability. The most successful companies are consistently looking for ways ...

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Sep 10, 2019

William Hill wanted to speed up its already fast time to market to achieve greater competitive differentiation whilst observing stringent compliance requirements. It implemented VMware hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by VMware vSAN and VMware vSphere to deliver secure shared storage. Thi...

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Sep 10, 2019

The entire enterprise IT infrastructure landscape is undergoing an end-to-end transformation. Cloud computing is now a must-have – and enterprises want more than one, combining public and private clouds with on-premises environments into an abstracted hybrid IT landscape.

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Sep 10, 2019

The majority of the time I only had access to two TV channels, three on a good weather day, and I vividly remember when I first saw a color television. At this time, products and services were limited, and buyer choices were almost non-existent. Fast-forward to 2019. Not only do I have access to hun...

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Sep 10, 2019

However, with a regular commute time that consumes a couple of hours each day, I have shifted my focus to podcasts and audiobooks. One of my favorite podcasts is the Inside Sales Enablement series by Scott Santucci and Brian Lambert. In their last episode, they spent time reviewing their thoughts an...

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Sep 10, 2019

Analyst whitepaper by Ovum: Hybrid IntegrationPlatforms: Digital Business Calls for Integration Modernization and Greater Agility - Exploring the factors driving hybrid integration platform adoption

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Sep 10, 2019

Agile Integration Methodology: Container-Based and Microservices-Aligned Lightweight Integration Runtimes - This paper explores the merits of agile integration architecture--a container-based, decentralized, and microservices-aligned approach for integration solutions that meets the demands of agili...

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Sep 10, 2019

Analyst whitepaper by Ovum: Hybrid Integration Platforms: Digital Business Calls for Integration Modernization and Greater Agility - Exploring the factors driving hybrid integration platform adoption

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Sep 10, 2019

Agile Integration Methodology:Container-Based and Microservices-Aligned Lightweight Integration Runtimes -This paper explores the merits of agile integration architecture--a container-based, decentralized, and microservices-aligned approach for integration solutions that meets the demands of agility...

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Sep 09, 2019

Machine learning now runs on everything from cloud infrastructure containing GPUs and TPUs, to mobile phones, to even the smallest hardware like microcontrollers that power smart devices. The combination of advancements in hardware and open-source software frameworks like TensorFlow is making all of...

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Sep 09, 2019

The evolution of the modern network has brought many things but simplicity is not one of them. The variety of devices that have come to make up the contemporary networks is jaw-dropping. Computers, servers, switches, routers, and virtual machines are just some of the diverse infrastructure that comp...

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Sep 09, 2019

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure represents a new generation of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure targeted at both managed service providers and end customers. It is a scale-out, cost-efficient, and multi-purpose cyber protection solution that combines universal storage and high-performance virtualization....

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Sep 09, 2019

5G is expected to be a critical enabler of the Smart Factory. What is the smart factory?  In simple terms, it is the aspirational concept of a digitally transformed factory or warehouse. It is a cyber-physical ecosystem of virtualized and connected assets, people, and processes that constitute ...

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Sep 06, 2019

CDW can help you increase IT flexibility and performance to expand capabilities while keeping operations running smoothly and costs down. For more information visit: https://www.cdw.ca/content/cdwca/en/orchestration/core-to-cloud.html

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Sep 06, 2019

Industry 4.0 and the future of automation would depend on digital and geospatial enablement. And for that, it’s essential to create a common framework and create a market-focused geospatial data infrastructure. Along these lines, the need for collaboration and an enabling geospatial data ecosy...

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Sep 05, 2019

PSI International, which provides IT infrastructure solutions to US governmental agencies, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering on Thursday. It had filed with the SEC in 2017 for a best-efforts initial public offering under Regulation A+. The Fairfax, VA-based company planned to raise $...

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Sep 05, 2019

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs- simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch. In this StorageSwiss Lightbo...

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Sep 05, 2019

VMworld 2019 proved to be a very good event. Although new product announcements were limited, the company made a great show of technology previews that kept people’s attention and helped attendees better understand VMware’s strategy, product roadmaps, and upcoming features. In this scena...

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Sep 04, 2019

5G — the 5th Generation of Mobile Network Technology — has been hailed as the next big evolution in mobile phone technology. 5G promises to offer extreme speed, massive capacity for machine connections, and ultrareliability and low latency – characteristics that would fuel industry...

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Sep 04, 2019

The concept of the intelligent enterprise has arrived in SAP user companies. Now, they need intelligent infrastructures. Linux and Kubernetes can help. SAP has been focusing a lot of its efforts on introducing the intelligent enterprise to its customers – and it has succeeded. Many user compan...

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Sep 04, 2019

Virtual Instruments, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, today introduced the latest version of VirtualWisdom, the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform. By leveraging WisdomAI-powered analytics and an ap...

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Sep 03, 2019

This decade began with an event that, like 9/11, sent the message of something changing in a way we knew could never go back. Since the Pandora’s box of the Stuxnet virus, we have seen numerous attack variations that have demonstrated how these threats can manifest themselves into serious, som...

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Sep 03, 2019

It is with happy hindsight that we can confidently say the first (but certainly not the last) ICT Infrastructure Conference and Exhibition was a success! Hosted by EE Publishers and Infracom on 28 and 29 August in Johannesburg, the two-day event saw professionals gathering from across the IT and ele...

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Sep 03, 2019

Microsoft has been pursuing “cloud” offerings for many years, starting with hosted Exchange in the late 1990s, followed by BPOS, and now Office 365. In this third iteration, Microsoft has clearly hit its stride: as of October 2018, Microsoft reported 155 million customers for the platform, up from j...

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Sep 03, 2019

A major challenge for us in some of these [remote] locations is that we don’t always have full IT staff to manage the backup process. Just making sure that backups are functioning and data can be restored requires us to go through a very timeconsuming and manual audit process. With Druva, we can sig...

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Sep 03, 2019

Many organizations struggle to scale outdated tape-based backups and redundant capacity as the amount of enterprise data that needs protection skyrockets. In response, they adopt cloud-first strategies, moving from traditional solutions to cloud-native backup and recovery that can deliver significan...

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Sep 03, 2019

Port Washington, NY based Pall Corporation has business operations that span the globe. Pall provides a rich portfolio of advanced filtration, separation, and purification equipment and services, but with such widespread operations and services, they faced a daunting challenge to efficiently manage ...

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Sep 03, 2019

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging the cloud to support business processes. From Office 365 and Salesforce to running SAP or Oracle on AWS, SaaS and IaaS have transformed workflows, significantly improving efficiencies and lowering costs. With any business process, protecting and managing that...

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Sep 03, 2019

A growing number of businesses are adopting a cloud-first strategy, in which they look for cloud solutions before they even think about on-premises hardware or software. According to a survey of 2,000 IT managers from Intel Security, 80 percent of enterprises have a cloud-first policy in place. They...

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Sep 03, 2019

One size does not fit all when it comes to meeting VMware-based virtual machine (VM) data protection requirements. Costs must be kept in check while shrinking recovery time and meeting recovery point objectives. IT professionals are pressured to deliver near-zero data loss and near-zero application ...

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Sep 03, 2019

As with other For Dummies books, this book doesn’t assume that you’ll begin on page one and read straight through to the end. Each chapter is written to stand alone, with enough contextual data provided so that you can understand the content. What Is Data Protection? Modern Data Protection with the ...

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Sep 03, 2019

Build Group selected Phoenix to manage their backup needs, because of its strength in meeting their key requirements: Cloud native to guard against physical disaster and reduce on-site hardware Global, high performance deduplication for smaller and faster backups Centralized administration to reduce...

blog article

Sep 03, 2019

Britain faces a new kind of threat. The digital world has given hostile international actors an entirely new toolkit. Cyberattacks are now one of the foremost security risks. The consequences range from disruption to compromised information and even physical harm. Targets have included banks, the NH...

blog article

Sep 01, 2019

Run a complete health check-up of your website, by measuring your website analytics framework, and the outcomes of your marketing & sales activities effectively. We give you a comprehensive review of the quality of your data, implementation of your tracking codes, and the configuration of all yo...

blog article

Aug 30, 2019

An IT infrastructure refresh can result in mixed feelings from IT managers. On one hand, you have the cost, complexity and risk of migrating systems but on the other, you have a great opportunity to significantly enhance your environment. Given that a typical refresh cycle is now 4-5 years – d...

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Aug 29, 2019

Internet of things (IoT) industry is rapidly evolving, which is driving the global 5G infrastructure market at a tremendous rate. Fortune Business Insights in a new report, titled "GLOBAL 5G INFRASTRUCTURE MARKET, SIZE, SHARE AND GLOBAL TREND BY COMPONENT (FIBERS, CABLES, ANTENNA, TRANSCEIVER, ...

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Aug 29, 2019

This technical report provides guidance for the use of the NetApp® HCI 615C for 3D graphics workloads in a VMware Horizon environment powered by NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) and virtualization software. We also provide the results from the preliminary testing of SPECviewperf 13 for th...

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Aug 29, 2019

Learn how the industry's leading hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) works--bringing compute, storage, networking, and virtualization into one simple to use and powerful foundation for your private and hybrid clouds.

blog article

Aug 29, 2019

Look up the definition of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) from a few different sources and you’ll get different definitions from each. DCIM is hard to define, even today, because the term has a cloudy history with disparate definitions from different analysts and from each role in...

blog article

Aug 29, 2019

The growing complexity of today’s IT reality is indisputable: Software is becoming more complex, and the infrastructure it runs on is equally so. This complexity comes, in part, from adding layers upon layers to the infrastructure we manage—from bare metal servers to VMs to containers to...

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Aug 29, 2019

Madison Logic is excited to announce a bi-directional integration with Oracle Eloqua, combining best-in-class lead and campaign management skills with Madison Logic’s global reach and advanced targeting. Now Oracle Marketing Automation users are able to align their messaging and targeting thro...

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Aug 28, 2019

Duncan Epping, Chief Technologist, HCIBU, VMware & John Gilmartin, SVP & GM HCIBU, VMware Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has become the must-have infrastructure that spans the data center, edge locations, and the public cloud. It unleashes business agility by simplifying IT and providin...

blog article

Aug 28, 2019

Today’s smart home technology makes managing life much simpler. With the ease of a cell phone, anyone can monitor and control many electronics in the home. From hundreds of miles away, you can easily turn on and off lights, appliances, air conditioning, sprinkler systems – and even an ou...

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Aug 27, 2019

Organizations want simplicity without compromise. An open hyperconverged infrastructure provides just what they need: integrated software-defined compute and storage in a single, powerful, easy-to-manage footprint that can be deployed in different environments and for different purposes. Remote offi...

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Aug 27, 2019

This video covers the findings of our in-depth testing of NetApp HCI in scenarios designed to represent typical usage in an enterprise hybrid cloud environment. Testing was designed to assess system usability, performance and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, along with scaling and availability...

blog article

Aug 27, 2019

This video covers the findings of our in-depth testing of NetApp HCI in scenarios designed to represent typical usage in an enterprise hybrid cloud environment. Testing was designed to assess system usability, performance and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, along with scaling and availability...

blog article

Aug 27, 2019

Underscoring its focus on hybrid cloud solutions, NetApp on Tuesday rolled out a series of products and services jointly engineered with VMware, including a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution designed to work with VMware Horizon. The new offerings were announced during the VMworld confere...

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Aug 26, 2019

Take a few minutes with us as our Man on the Street Matt Stephenson checks in with Cybersecurity Media legend David Spark. We catch up on what David has been up to with his podcast series CISO/Vendor Relationship and Defense in Depth.

blog article

Aug 26, 2019

The 5G era of mobile computing and communications is rapidly moving forward. 5G stands for the fifth generation of wireless infrastructure — a massive upscale of network technology. It will provide data transfer rates faster than the blink of an eye, reducing latency for even the most data-hun...

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Aug 26, 2019

Keep competitive with Micron's flash. Virtualization requires the random I/O performance of flash-based SSDs, which eclipses HDDs by tens of thousands of I/Os. Partner with the all-flash vSAN™ pioneer. Micron was the first to publicly demonstrate an all-SSD VMware vSAN in 2014, which helpe...

blog article

Aug 26, 2019

From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends to the IBM Systems IT Infrastructure blog. The opinions in these posts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM. If you’re a startup developing a new ap...

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Aug 23, 2019

Using the HIMSS Analytics Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM), your healthcare organization can measure the relative levels of adoption of technical infrastructure. By identifying specific benchmarks to reach before going live with more advanced business and clinical applications and capabilities...

blog article

Aug 23, 2019

The recent evolution from storing data in a data warehouse to using a hybrid infrastructure of on-premises and cloud data lakes has enabled tremendous agility and scale, but it has also created a security and privacy risk that current strategies don’t address. Organizations concerned about the...

blog article

Aug 23, 2019

In 2020, worldwide 5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will reach USD 4.2 billion, an 89% increase from 2019 revenue of USD 2.2 billion, according to Gartner. Additionally, Gartner forecasts that investments in 5G NR network infrastructure will account for 6% of the total wireless infrastruct...

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Aug 22, 2019

As data volumes continue to spiral and server deployments soar, today’s IT leaders need peace of mind in their approach to modern enterprise data center management. Hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) has emerged to provide an answer, offering strength and stability at a time when disruption ...

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Aug 22, 2019

At Cerium, we aren't simply selling hyper-converged products, we actually run our own internal infrastructure on VxRail! Ray talks about Cerium's transition from a three-tier legacy architecture to Dell EMC VxRail, which reduced complexity for our own IT staff, and eliminated downtime of our...

blog article

Aug 22, 2019

Creating a scalable computational infrastructure to analyze the wealth of information contained in data repositories is difficult due to significant barriers in organizing, extracting and analyzing relevant data. Shared data science infrastructures like Boag is needed to efficiently process and pars...

blog article

Aug 22, 2019

Whether you manage a growing enterprise facility or a large, high-traffic venue, intelligent in-building infrastructure solutions help you monitor, track and optimize your wired and wireless network. At CommScope, we know what it takes to design, deploy and maintain a modern network infrastructure. ...

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Aug 22, 2019

Where does the modern traveler come from? Where is s/he going? How does s/he get there? As the world grows ever-smaller, more and more people are traveling to a growing number of places each year. Increasingly, they’re getting there by leveraging digital tools. Savvy travel and hospitality bra...

blog article

Aug 21, 2019

A Hands-on Useful Review of ‘eG Enterprise Tool' for Application and Infrastructure Performance Monitoring for IT Teams: The IT landscape has changed drastically over the last few years with the advent of new application development and deployment frameworks. Gone are the days when we had ...

blog article

Aug 21, 2019

This is the second of a series of five posts on the market space for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). To be clear, as the previous blog post outlined, there are many options in this space. Evaluation of your needs and clear understanding of why you want to choose a solution shouldn’t be ma...

blog article

Aug 21, 2019

Today’s brands face numerous challenges. They need to create a customized, excellent experience for each and every customer worldwide. To do that, they need to create high-quality, on-target content. They need to create that content quickly, effectively, and for audiences who speak multiple la...

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Aug 21, 2019

Our roots began in translation but what we do today goes well beyond – from content creation to linguistics, to artificial intelligence (AI). We create global relevance, driven by humanity and amplified by technology. Connecting our customers with their communities and driving brand awareness....

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Aug 21, 2019

Your localization partner is going to do a deep-dive into your business—so start by diving deep into theirs. Are they an industry-leader with 20 years of experience or a relative newcomer? Will they speak Samoan, Uzbek, or Swahili (and all your customers’ languages)? Can they deliver on-...

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Aug 21, 2019

In practice, of course, things are more complicated. Effective translation necessitates a nuanced understanding of (at least) two languages and cultures, both source and target. It requires an understanding of the original content’s goals. It mandates a fluency in tone and subtext as well as v...

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Aug 20, 2019

Yaron Rudman, COO at Tank Stream Labs, talk through how Optus and Cisco Meraki have helped provide them with the network infrastructure to support their rapidly expanding business.

blog article

Aug 20, 2019

Lace-up your sneakers and step up to the starting line: you’re ready to reach countless customers in new markets.  You’ve secured your spot in the Global Marketplace (whether by default or design).  But before you sprint away, take a good look around you. You are not alone in t...

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Aug 20, 2019

Technology evolves at a frenetic pace. Today, smartphone memory and processor speeds eclipse the specs of your once state-of-the-art server. You know better than anyone that it’s not just the velocity of change that’s made managing your current infrastructure messy. Inefficient. Costly. ...

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Aug 20, 2019

An artificial-intelligence-based infrastructure that uses the data available within the data center to optimize and automate infrastructure operations can enhance operational efficiencies and improve the quality of service offered to the business.

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Aug 20, 2019

Languages used for IT infrastructure don’t have expiration dates. COBOL’s been around for 60 years—and isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. We maintain billions of lines of classic code for mainframes. But we’re also building new infrastructures for the cloud in languages...

blog article

Aug 20, 2019

A large South Wales multi-disciplined contractor has teamed up with one of Wales’ longest established IT companies, as part of a collaboration which would ensure that performance, availability, storage and security are delivered against key project objectives, safeguarding the company infrastr...

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Aug 19, 2019

Software and firewalls are not enough to keep hackers out. Data diodes can protect critical infrastructure providing operators with situational awareness.

blog article

Aug 18, 2019

Before launching his shooting rampage at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius posted an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging board 8chan. 8chan has become a popular vehicle for extremists to share hateful content and glorify mass shootings. After the massacre in El Paso ...

blog article

Aug 16, 2019

We're Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) here at DWP Digital. SRE is a specialised role that focuses on the reliability and maintainability of large networks and systems. It is meant to be disruptive and cause impact. A major focus of SREs is the aspiration to never see the same is...

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Aug 16, 2019

The idea was to benefit from scale, speed-of-development, and better cost management. Together these factors would help us meet customer needs quickly and bring innovation in solutions. On the way we discovered the huge benefits of using infrastructure as code to manage our resources.

blog article

Aug 16, 2019

Before the large steel and iron production company Charter Manufacturing moved its data center to a new corporate headquarters building a few years ago, it took a fresh look at its IT infrastructure. Ultimately, the company moved from its highly virtualized blade servers to a more modern, hyperconve...

blog article

Aug 16, 2019

In late June, the Office of Management and Budget finalized updates to the government’s Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) policy, laying out the Trump administration’s technical tweaks to a policy first promulgated in the Obama era. As Nextgov reports, the updated policy “...

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Aug 16, 2019

Don’t lose unnecessary time coping with attacks, threats and theft. Lenovo ThinkShield powered by Intel® vPro™ Platform is a comprehensive security portfolio that brings you end-to-end protection. In your solutions guide, you’ll find out the benefits of ThinkShield, how to ensure your data stays sec...

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Aug 16, 2019

Meaningful Use, HIPAA, HITECH, value-based care, ACA — the list goes on and on. Regardless of whether it’s a government regulation or market demand, the mandates on IT in healthcare organizations are at odds with each other: Deploy more advanced, usable, secure applications while also reducing IT in...

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Aug 16, 2019

Will 2019 be the tipping point for healthcare-centered virtual and augmented reality tech, or a wait-and-see year reserved for early adopters? Three key indicators provide the clues and contextual evidence your organization needs to confidently pull the trigger on embracing augmented and virtual rea...

blog article

Aug 15, 2019

What is Terraform? Terraform is an ‘infrastructure as code’ software developed by HashiCorp. Terraform lets users apply a high-level configuration language or code to define a datacentre/infrastructure. A configuration file is created and from that configuration file, we can create an ex...

blog article

Aug 15, 2019

Great customer experiences are rooted in data. Every time your customers interact with your brand, they’re leaving behind unique data trails pointing to their interests, preferences, and wants. The savvy growth marketers of today follow these trails using their wits, technology and robust data...

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Aug 15, 2019

VMware provides IT organizations a path to digital transformation, delivering consistent infrastructure and consistent operations across data centers and public clouds to accelerate application speed and agility for business innovation and growth.

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Aug 15, 2019

The Dell EMC™ XC Series of hyper-converged appliances integrates our PowerEdge server platform and Nutanix software to provide enterprise-class infrastructure solutions for virtualized environments. Backed by Dell EMC’s Global Service and Support organization, these 1U, 2U and 3U applian...

blog article

Aug 15, 2019

Cloud computing isn’t one monolithic type of offering, but an assortment of services aimed at meeting the various IT needs of an organization. One such service provided via the cloud is infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), which delivers virtualized computing resources to organizations typicall...

blog article

Aug 15, 2019

IT infrastructure is a necessity that many businesses overlook because of how easy it is to miss, including the requirement to use recommended VPNs. At best, owners and managers usually leave the "how" of network functionality to their relevant support department. But this sort of thinking...

blog article

Aug 14, 2019

IT Operations and security professionals are continuously overwhelmed with the number of tasks and sheer volume of work they face every day, and solutions for task and process automation have become a necessity. The question is what activities are the best candidates for automation, and what solutio...

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Aug 14, 2019

This is a video explainer of the difference between Content Marketing, Branded Content and Native Advertising - with examples to help put it all into context.Accompanying video that tried to separate signal from noise on the different approaches of content in the business.

blog article

Aug 14, 2019

This is the third in a series of articles on creating, maintaining, and optimizing great customer experiences in the context of mounting concerns about privacy and increasingly strict regulations governing data processing. We address topics such as consent strategies, the role of trust, the elements...

blog article

Aug 14, 2019

What character appears in the most films and television programs? Dracula? God? Santa Claus?  All of those make the top ten list, but none is the correct answer. Satan (or The Devil) is a character is more than 840 projects – more than any other character. If you limit the list to mortals...

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Aug 14, 2019

If you want some insights into where the content marketing industry may be headed, it might just help to take a look at where it’s been. As we pointed out when CMI shared its History of Content Marketing infographic in 2012, brands have been telling their stories to audiences for hundreds of y...

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Aug 14, 2019

Content—and how brands use it to interact with buyers at all stages of the engagement journey—has fundamentally reshaped every business’ go-to-market strategy. This shift has been particularly challenging for “top-of-the-funnel” demand generation marketers, most of who ...

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Aug 13, 2019

Organizations seek to serve applications to users in their remote and branch office locations with a minimum of local infrastructure, however application performance over the wide area network is impacted by traffic congestion and network outages. In order to overcome these limitations and deliver a...

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Aug 13, 2019

Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a quick tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers. This week, Brett talks about Ansible and why we love using this automation tool here at 45 Drives

blog article

Aug 13, 2019

PROTECT YOUR SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE WITH OUR ADVANCED SECURITY SUITE. GDS Advanced Infrastructure Security provides robust protection against network intrusion without hampering performance. Block malicious traffic. Intrusion prevention services. Hardware and software provided by us. Fully managed by...

blog article

Aug 13, 2019

More than ever before, the most consequential question an IT organization must answer about every new data center workload is where to run it. The newest enterprise computing workloads today are variants of machine learning, or AI, be it deep learning-model training or inference (putting the trained...

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Aug 12, 2019

We live in exciting times for technology users. AI has become a market force, transforming every sector of the economy. AI and machine learning (ML) are finally being embedded and offered in commercial applications, delivering mainstream analytics/AI as a pragmatic enabler for commercial business. Y...

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Aug 12, 2019

Business transformation remains aligned to technological advances, according to more than four fifths (81%) of global CEOs. Yet in the rush to achieve digitally enabled change, the constraints of current security models and thinking pose a fundamental risk to the business. When organizations are fac...

blog article

Aug 12, 2019

Let’s explore the complexity and vulnerability of IT infrastructure and how to build a modern IT infrastructure monitoring solution, using a combination of time series databases with machine learning. IT Infrastructure: Complex and Vulnerable. iCloud recently joined Google, Facebook, Amazon on...

blog article

Aug 10, 2019

Tomorrow's IT infrastructure. People often talk about “Infrastructure of the Future,” but everyone has a different idea of what it actually means or consists of. Does it involve a “journey” like you hear so often? Or constant process of evolution? Attempting to answer the...

blog article

Aug 08, 2019

According to McKinsey & Company, nearly 100 million lines of software code are needed to control and operate the subsystems that make up a modern automobile. By 2030 that software will represent up to 30% of the value of the vehicle. In effect, automobiles have become data centers on wheels, and...

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Aug 08, 2019

VirtualWisdom combines market leading visibility, specialized analytics, and expert runbooks, to accelerate and automate problem resolution and remediation.  Issues that affect application performance or availability can stem from any point of the Application-Infrastructure stack.

blog article

Aug 08, 2019

Once an internal project from Google, Kubernetes has changed the way software development is done these days. A white steering wheel on a blue background seems to be everywhere now. Business wants to grow and pay less, DevOps wants a stable platform that can run applications at scale, developers wan...

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Aug 07, 2019

Technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile technology, data analytics, and others are creating a radical increase in business data volumes. Some studies, like this one from IDG, show the volume of recorded data increasing as much as 30% to 40% per year.Most businesses inevitably face the...

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Aug 07, 2019

From the wheel to the World Wide Web, the way we live and work has always been shaped by advances in technology. One of the most exciting and revolutionary trends currently making its mark is the growth of connectivity, microelectronics and the so-called ‘Internet of Things’. The impact ...

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Aug 07, 2019

Amenity Analytics does NLP and machine learning using serverless infrastructure almost exclusively. In this talk we'll cover what we do and how we utilize AWS Lambdas, Kinesis streams, and DynamoDB to run our solution on AWS.

blog article

Aug 07, 2019

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) is an innovative virtualised solution that combines the data centre infrastructure components of storage, compute and networking, into a single easy-to-manage platform. HCI is all about simplifying the data centre experience and, given the well-accepted benefits,...

blog article

Aug 07, 2019

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been around for several years and continues to drive a big part of IT infrastructure growth. There’s a lot going on in this space. All of the major platform vendors except one have staked out territory with their own HCI solutions. At the same time, the ...

blog article

Aug 06, 2019

The key to the rapid development of urban spaces is connectivity. A new-age connectivity solution, an underground box, has the potential to create reliable network linkages. The product is a perfect solution for carriers, as well as governing agencies, who are looking for network solutions to cater ...

blog article

Aug 06, 2019

With businesses around the world facing continual disruption, technological tools are increasingly crucial to the success of established enterprises and start-ups alike. For cloud professionals, finding the best infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers is essential for continued development and ...

blog article

Aug 06, 2019

The Global 5G infrastructure market is estimated to be valued at USD 2.86 Billion in 2020 and it is further projected to reach USD 33.72 Billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 50.9% between 2020 and 2026. Rising demand for high speed network in the era of IoT and importance of implementation of software&rsqu...

blog article

Aug 05, 2019

As the computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads accelerate, traditional parallel attached DRAM memory has presented a major roadblock for next-generation CPUs, which require an increased number of memory channels to deliver more memory bandwidth. Microchip...

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Aug 05, 2019

In the last year, OpenAI trained a team of five neural networks to defeat the reigning world champion esports team, achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of domain-specific language modeling tasks, released a public demonstration of combining multiple musical styles using unsupervised learn...

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Aug 05, 2019

Carhartt streamlines infrastructure with IBM Power Systems and Storage. Carhartt increased performance and simplified their infrastructure by deploying IBM Power Systems combined with IBM Storage Systems.

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Aug 05, 2019

Let your virtualized computing solution thrive with extremely fast and streamlined memory and storage solutions from Micro. ©2019 Micron Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Information, products, and/or specifications are subject to change without notice. All information is provided on an &qu...

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Aug 05, 2019

Build a foundation for a software-defined infrastructure Make your complex hybrid cloud infrastructure simple to deploy and manage. HPE OneView is the foundation for a software-defined infrastructure—increasing the speed of IT delivery for new applications and services, while still efficiently...

blog article

Aug 02, 2019

The global marketplace is in the early stages of one of the biggest technological transformations in history, with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation becoming intertwined with virtually every aspect of life. But these advances require massive data capture, management, ana...

blog article

Aug 01, 2019

The first tangible evidence of fifth-generation (5G) infrastructure has not been in mobile network base stations but rather in the Verizon fixed-wireless access (FWA) base stations for very high-speed broadband delivery to homes and businesses. This move has seemed counterintuitive for many people f...

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Aug 01, 2019

Sri Reddy talks about what is top of mind with customers on the impact of 5G on the transport infrastructure including automation, latency, flexible edges & gateways, robustness, and cost per bit.

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Aug 01, 2019

SmartNICs with integrated FPGAs (F-NICs) [19, 68, 89, 119] are an appealing platform for accelerating I/O intensive network applications. They have been increasingly deployed in data centers and public clouds [33, 66], e.g., in each MS Azure server, enabling line-rate throughput and low, predictable...

blog article

Aug 01, 2019

Hyperconverged infrastructure adoption is on the rise for organizations looking to build a sustainable digital workspace. In fact, according to a 2018 study conducted by analyst firm ESG on behalf of Dell EMC and Intel, the majority of digitally transformed companies — 86 percent — repor...

blog article

Aug 01, 2019

When writing Pester infrastructure tests, you'll ultimately run across a common problem; dealing with dependencies. Unlike unit tests, infrastructure tests actually run real code and touch the real environment. A real environment is complicated and full of dependencies on compute, networking, st...

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Jul 31, 2019

DELL EMC XC Family reduces complexity and enhances flexibility, scalability and agility. You can focus more on business and innovation worry less on  infrastructure management and operations.

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Jul 31, 2019

Adicet Bio is broadening the horizons of cell immunotherapy with gamma delta (γδ) T-cells. Adicet employs these cells' unique properties to target solid tumor cancer. Though gamma delta T-cells make up a small fraction of blood cells, Adicet has developed a platform to activate and e...

blog article

Jul 31, 2019

Will AI and automation eliminate the need for the people who now keep IT infrastructures in operation? Not if those people take charge of their own futures. NoOps (No Operations) is the idea that emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation will one day make it possible for a...

blog article

Jul 31, 2019

Infrastructure as code can transform the modern data center, but maintain a healthy dose of caution -- and thorough documentation and testing environments -- to prevent chaos. The advent of the software-defined data center has pushed many traditional data center technologies aside. Hyper-converged p...

blog article

Jul 31, 2019

Paratus Africa and Nampower announced plans to launch The GridOnline — this collaboration is set to commercialise Namibia’s national optic fibre network and provide access to its national Optical Ground Wire (OPGW). In 2018, Paratus Africa secured access into The GridOnline in strategic ...

blog article

Jul 30, 2019

File storage is not always simple and file servers are painful; organizations often have to overcome fundamental obstacles in object storage like latency, file retrieval, and organizational issues to make object storage usable for storing business files. Nasuni® Cloud File Services™ is a s...

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Jul 30, 2019

A breakthrough infrastructure management tool that simplifies hybrid cloud and helps customers on the path to a composable infrastructure, HPE OneView is the foundation for a software-defined data center—transforming servers, storage, and networking into software-defined infrastructure. HPE On...

blog article

Jul 30, 2019

When most people think about struggles over the global internet, platforms and content come to mind: the $5 billion fine levied at Facebook for privacy violations. Antitrust law and Google and Amazon’s corporate monopolies. The discrimination of artificial intelligence. The politics of content...

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Jul 30, 2019

The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license ("CC-BY-SA"). An explanation of CC-BY-SA is available at Red Hat, as the licensor of this document, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not...

blog article

Jul 30, 2019

In September, Modac will have been in the infrastructure and data centre business for 34 years. The company began in September 1985, doing RS233 cabling and multiplexers. In 1994, it began building computer rooms, and soon moved towards producing modern, more efficient and user-friendly data centres...

blog article

Jul 29, 2019

Combining storage, networking and compute in a single system, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is designed to cut complexity for data center managers while increasing agility and scalability. Over the past decade, HCI has evolved from an architecture supporting discrete workloads such as video an...

blog article

Jul 29, 2019

For decades, managing a server or two was a full-time job. System administrators would carefully curate their critical systems and ensure the business ran smoothly by their continued function. The last 10 years have revolutionized the way businesses manage their critical infrastructure. No longer ar...

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Jul 29, 2019

If your team doesn't have any specialized skills when it comes to managing a hyper-converged infrastructure, then good news: they don't need them! A common misconception today is that  hyper-converged technology comes with an extra management layer. In fact, there is no extra management...

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Jul 29, 2019

IT and OT professionals come from di¬erent backgrounds with di¬erent priority orders, yet they want the same thing: a reliable and secure manufacturing environment. NEW THREATS. Now that OT systems are internet protocol (IP) enabled, there is increased risk for intentional and accidental har...

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Jul 29, 2019

Some sort of device control node servers that will take care of managing the devices and possibly executing the tests. When choosing the device control server, pay special attention to hard disk, -RAM and energy efficiency. Focus on a good USB infrastructure as all devices will be connected to the d...

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Jul 29, 2019

DDoS Attacks Disrupt Business To ensure high availability for applications and services, you must protect critical network infrastructure such as DNS, DHCP servers, switches, routers, storage, network devices and the DMZ. An essential asset in today’s connected enterprise, the Domain Name Syst...

blog article

Jul 29, 2019

Pester was built for unit testing. Unit testing, in a nutshell, refers to testing code, not the changes that code may do to an environment. However, Pester can be adopted to accomplish other testing scenarios such as testing IT infrastructure. If you don't already have Pester installed, you can ...

blog article

Jul 29, 2019

Researchers have uncovered easy-to-exploit bugs that can impact physical safety, utilities, healthcare devices more, setting the stage for widespread worm attacks. A cadre of 11 vulnerabilities, six of them critical remote code-execution (RCE) bugs, have been uncovered that affect millions of critic...

blog article

Jul 29, 2019

Emerging industries of the future are turning convergence between industrial networks (OTs) and information networks (IT) into a hot topic in the world of industry. This phenomenon highlights the specific characteristics of this infrastructure and reveals certain risks, particularly with regard to c...

blog article

Jul 28, 2019

Converged infrastructure (CI) and Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) are the most time- & cost-efficient ways to modernize a data center and create a software-defined data center and or achieve the multi-cloud vision. CI and HCI deliver the business agility, scalability, and simplicity needed ...

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Jul 28, 2019

This document outlines the reference architecture and best practices for using NetApp® HCI® in a Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 environment. The enterprise IT landscape is going through a digital transformation as there is a shift from hand-crafted, single-purpose data center desi...

blog article

Jul 26, 2019

Can you imagine a world where our water, energy and transport systems just stop working? How about our hospitals, telecoms and financial services? It’s a picture I struggle to visualise, and yet we are told that the risks to our national security have never been greater. So, how safe actually ...

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Jul 26, 2019

5G is the next generation of wireless networks, building upon existing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure and improving the bandwidth, capacity, and reliability of wireless broadband services. It is intended to meet increasing data and communication requirements, including capacity for tens...

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Jul 26, 2019

INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES. 1.- Distribute data across areas with content based routing as vessel system to reach areas. 2.- Organize data in layers, from general to specific context, to pack contents under well-defined labels for visibility within the area. 3.- Manipulate data with easy-to-use app...

blog article

Jul 25, 2019

At Salient Networks, we have a simple ethos: We believe that technology is all about connection. Ideally, technology is deployed in such a way that it brings people together and enables them to communicate seamlessly. And it’s not just about connection between people, but also connection betwe...

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Jul 25, 2019

Vodafone can make things simple, with a tailor-made, modular IT infrastructure built to suit your business needs now and with the built-in flexibility to adapt and grow with you in the future.We won’t force your business into a route that’s not right for you. Whether it’s simple or...

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Jul 25, 2019

On premises or in the cloud, your IT resiliency is your ability to adapt to planned or unplanned events while keeping services and operations running continuously. When you have IT resilience, it means that: Applications can operate, even during an outage Hardware, middleware and workloads are avail...

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Jul 25, 2019

Throughout the world, organizations in different industries are leveraging IBM software-defined infrastructure solutions for big data, analytics, artificial intelligence/deep learning (AI/DL), high performance computing (HPC) and cloud to improve business results in a highly competitive market. IBM ...

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Jul 25, 2019

The smart money is ready to go shopping for data centers. Some of the world’s largest investors are raising billions of dollars to invest in digital infrastructure, citing extraordinary demand for capital to fuel the data economy. Investor interest in the sector is creating pathways to growth ...

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Jul 24, 2019

About one year ago, UC struck amazing deals with IT infrastructure companies – deals that likely will save the university up to $16M a year for five years. It’s true, UC Procurement rocks negotiation. But UC also got these deals because disparate groups across the university collaborated...

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Jul 24, 2019

IBM Integrated Managed Infrastructure helps you fuse your existing IT with cloud capabilities and orchestrate it from any location across all providers. Learn more about IBM Integrated Managed Infrastructure.

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Jul 24, 2019

Insikt Group® researchers used proprietary methods, including Recorded Future Network Traffic Analysis and Recorded Future Domain Analysis, along with common analytical techniques, to profile Iranian cyberespionage threat actor APT33 (Elfin) and determine whether the public exposure of their TTP...

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Jul 24, 2019

Software HCI implementations make it possible to build HCI clusters from mismatched hardware. Even so, see why matched hardware can make deployment easier to manage and maintain. Recent years have seen a steady growth in hyper-converged infrastructure adoption. A portion of this growth has been fuel...

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Jul 24, 2019

Hyper-converged infrastructure can be an easy win when it comes to datacentre infrastructure upgrades, but there are pitfalls. We discuss how best you can sidestep them. Many organisations are rolling out hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to replace their server and storage architectures. Hyper-c...

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Jul 24, 2019

The Next Gen Cental Office (NGCO) is an amazing opportunity and a confluence of vision and product development, says Rochan Sankar, Senior Director, Switch Products, Broadcom. NGCO requires virtualization and cloudification of the underlying network. The Ethernet-based interconnects for this infrast...

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Jul 22, 2019

Do you still have “spring cleaning” on your IT department’s to-do list? While giving your IT infrastructure an annual tidying tune-up may be more commonly associated with the spring months, summer is still an excellent time to tackle this endeavor, taking stock of your current proc...

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Jul 22, 2019

In traditional network infrastructure there are generally three architectural planes associated with network infrastructure: data, control, and management. The exact definitions for these can vary depending on the genre and specific implementation of infrastructure, but the archetypes are largely ac...

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Jul 22, 2019

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 15 percent of the population has dyslexia. In fact, every 1 in 5 students are dyslexic. Dyslexic kids may have trouble with reading comprehension, and therefore, assistive technology tools like audiobooks can make a big difference for s...

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Jul 22, 2019

Increasingly there is greater importance being placed on finding the best way to transform IT infrastructure in the manufacturing industry, primarily to meet the need for efficient operations and growing customer expectations. To service these demands, the manufacturing industry is looking to hyperc...

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Jul 20, 2019

Oracle Infrastructure Monitoring is built on Oracle Management Cloud’s secure, unified data platform and provides proactive monitoring for your entire IT infrastructure. As an administrator, you can perform status and health monitoring across tiers and be alert‐ ed about issues, troubleshoot a...

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Jul 19, 2019

A few years ago, it wasn’t uncommon to spot a fellow passenger on a local train or bus playing Angry Birds or Subway Surfers on a smartphone. Today, multiplayer games such as PUBG and Fortnite have taken over that space, helped by improved Internet infrastructure and low-cost smartphones that ...

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Jul 19, 2019

You know that your business’s growth depends on everyone delivering their best work, and that means enabling your staff with the collaboration tools they need. In this e-book, you’ll learn how Microsoft 365 Business can improve your business every day —and how to use it so your employees can be coll...