All Blog Posts Tagged 'security' (21)

Web Werks Continues Expansion of World-class Data Center Infrastructure in India

Web Werks continues to focus on developing a strong World-Class Data Center Infrastructure to ensure higher availability and 99.995% uptime with most secure infrastructure.

Web Werks the leader in IT services in India for past 20+ years continues to enhance…

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Added by Priti on April 6, 2018 at 15:01 — No Comments

Microsoft and Azure September Data Infrastructure Updates

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Microsoft and Azure September 2017 Software Defined Data infrastructure Updates

September was a busy month for data infrastructure topics as well as Microsoft in terms of new and enhanced technologies. Wrapping up September was Microsoft Ignite where Azure, Azure Stack, Windows, O365, AI, IoT, development tools announcements occurred, along with others from…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 18, 2017 at 20:27 — No Comments

Dell EMC and VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates

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Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates

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September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 18, 2017 at 20:07 — No Comments

AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates

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Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrasture Updates

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. One of the announcements included VMware partnering to deliver…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 18, 2017 at 18:19 — No Comments

Azure AWS Service Maps via Microsoft

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Microsoft has created an Azure and Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Map (corresponding services from both providers).…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 18, 2017 at 18:08 — No Comments

September 2017 Server StorageIO Newsletter & Data Infrastructure Trends

Volume 17, Issue IX (September 2017)

Hello and welcome to the September 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.

With September being generally known as…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 14, 2017 at 14:18 — No Comments

Hot Popular New Trending Data Infrastructure Vendors To Watch

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A common question I get asked is who are the hot popular new or trending data infrastructure vendors to watch.

Keep in mind that there is a difference between…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 14, 2017 at 13:48 — No Comments

Is it just me or did September go by fast?

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Getting Caught Up, What Happened In September?

Seems like just yesterday it was the end of August with the start of VMworld in Las Vegas, now its the end of September and Microsoft Ignite in Orlando is wrapping up.…

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Added by Greg Schulz on October 14, 2017 at 13:39 — No Comments

New Book by Greg Schulz Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials

SDDC, Cloud, Converged, and Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft

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Over the past several months I have posted, commenting, presenting and discussing more about Data Infrastructures and my new book (my 4th solo project) officially announced today, Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press). Software Defined Data Infrastructure (SDDI) Essentials is now generally…

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Added by Greg Schulz on August 23, 2017 at 21:35 — No Comments

Are You Ready For GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Plus Resources

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Updated 6/29/17

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in a year on May 25 2018 are you ready?

What Is GDPR

If your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned about GDPR you might want to step back and review that thought. While it is possible that some organizations may not be affected by GDPR…

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Added by Greg Schulz on July 23, 2017 at 17:46 — No Comments

GDPR goes into effect May 25 2018 Are You Ready?

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GDPR goes into effect May 25 2018 Are You Ready?

The new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go into effect in a year on May 25 2018 are you ready?

Why Become GDPR Aware

If your initial response is that you are not in Europe and do not need to be concerned about GDPR you might want to step back and review that…

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Added by Greg Schulz on June 17, 2017 at 18:41 — No Comments

Disaster Recovery Plan: Brings You Back In Power

In the information age, most of the IT executives have realized that keeping a back-up plan to recover from the disasters occurrence is no more an option, it is a necessity rather. It cannot be denied that disasters do happen and can occur in several ways. It is a possible scenario that your critical IT systems could be unavailable due to flooding, fire, hardware failure, theft or any other unexpected event. And, sensibility calls for staying prepared well-in-advance instead of being in…

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Added by Bhavna Singh on February 6, 2015 at 11:41 — No Comments

Stay a Step Ahead of Data-Security Concerns with Dedicated Firewall

Most of the organizations have started taking the matter of data security with immense seriousness. This as a result brought boom in the industry for the solutions that can keep critical data protected from physical as well as virtual threats. So, you can easily find a service provider that offers security solutions accommodated under highly secured data centers. It is matter of fact that data centers protected with CCTV,…

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Added by Bhavna Singh on January 9, 2015 at 11:33 — No Comments

Securing data at rest: Self Encrypting Disks (SEDs)

Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The Virtualization Practice (TVP)…

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Added by Greg Schulz on June 27, 2011 at 21:55 — No Comments

Intrusion Detection And Prevention Tips

- Robbie Higgins, Vice President of Security Services at GlassHouse Technologies (www.glasshouse.com), says:

IDS/IPS should be part of any company’s security environment large or small; firewalls for the most part are not very good in malicious activity detection. Deployment and… Continue

Added by Chris MacKinnon on December 30, 2010 at 2:46 — No Comments

Intel Buys a Big Mac

The acquisition of McAfee by Intel is unquestionably one of the biggest takeovers of this year. Potentially, this is going to rock the IT world as much as, say Oracle-Sun did last year. With a sum of almost 7.7 billion dollar, it is a large buy even for a giant like Intel. And it shows Intel means business, as the price reflects a 62 percent premium on the share price of the day the deal was made.

Why? Obviously,… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on August 20, 2010 at 0:01 — No Comments

The Big Red Button that IT is NOT

This week's issue of the Economist (a newspaper that I hold in high regard for its ability of both analysis and opinionating comments) features a cover story about what it calls 'the war in the fifth domain': Cyberspace.

For some reason, even the most prestigious newspapers make amusing slip ups when it comes to technology. While the Economist article has some passages that will make you chuckle ("Computer bugs bring down military e-mail systems". With 'bugs', they probably mean… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 5, 2010 at 22:58 — No Comments

IT is the real James Bond

First of all, let me express my absolute astonishment on the match of today. Holland played so-so in the first half, but what a second half. I am not a chauvinist, but it was a thrilling match and a great result. So good actually, that the Dutch actually proved again that the Twitter data centers are far from reliable enough. I haven't seen so many fail whales in quite some time. What will happen if China starts to play football well???

But I digress. All I wanted to do was point to… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 2, 2010 at 23:32 — No Comments

Why Current Network Security Fails

Why is it that advances in data center technology have so far failed to produce decent digital security for enterprises? Even with the newest firewalls, encryption schemes and what more, breaches are an almost daily occurence.

The answer is actually quite simple, as we can read in this article in Processor Magazine. The whole model that has… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on May 31, 2010 at 22:45 — No Comments