Data Center | Guest Opinion | Costas Galonis Friday, November 18, 2011
If you are wading through the sea of words that has been written about cloud computing in the last few months, you can be forgiven for being a little confused. Not only is cloud computing a new concept, the literature about it is weighed down with new ideas and words such as virtualization, multi-tenancy etc. Continue Reading »
Security | Guest Opinion | Phil Neray Thursday, November 3, 2011
Life for security professionals used to be simpler. You could stop outsiders from accessing your data by establishing perimeter defenses such as firewalls and anti-virus systems, and by having on-site security guards and identity checks at the entrance to your corporate data center. Continue Reading »
Security | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, August 30, 2011
One of the challenges that IT organizations routinely face is that for any number of reasons someone may accidentally or purposefully alter the way a particular server is configured. Inevitably, those changes wind up creating a definite compliance issue and a potential security problem. Continue Reading »
Security | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, August 29, 2011
Configuration errors even in the best of times are the bane of IT existence. As IT environments have become more complex thanks to the advent of virtualization and cloud computing, the opportunity to misconfigure any number of devices has exponentially increased. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Guest Opinion | Ramon Chen Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Last year, Gartner published a report titled, “Enterprise Information Archiving Transforms the Strategy and Approach for Archiving." It forecast that enterprise information archiving (EIA) will become a key infrastructure component and will hold both structured data and unstructured content by 2013. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The trouble with data is that not all of it is of equal value. From a storage management perspective, there are basically two types of data. There is the data in the production system and then there is everything else, which depending on what backup medium is used is generally referred to as Tier 2 or 3 storage. Continue Reading »
