[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Most of my articles here have been looking at a topic and I write about it. In this quarter’s article, I wanted to highlight a couple of the blog articles by other experts on Around the Storage Block that have attracted a lot of attention – in other words, these articles are getting a lot of views. I’ll pull a few of the highlights from them and give you a link where you can read the details.…
Hurricanes, floods, cyberattacks, and simple human error — I’m sure you’ve heard your share of these types of data center disaster stories. Some disasters are predictable and give you plenty of time to prepare. Businesses in the “tornado belt,” for example, experience a much higher probability of weather-related outages in certain months and can plan ahead. Other businesses, unfortunately, get completely blindsided.…
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Two years ago, dozens of U.S. banks, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America, began working on a secret, ultrasecure data bunker called Sheltered Harbor. The data bunker holds a copy of all bank transaction data to protect it from a devastating cyberattack.
What is Sheltered Harbor?
Sheltered Harbor is an initiative undertaken by the financial services sector. It provides an extra layer of protection against potential cyber risks.…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]This is part one of a two-part series. In this issue, we cover the journey from Blockchain to Crypto to DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). We will review why blockchain matters, where we are now, and what future may hold. In the next issue, we will review the current DLT architectures, who the main players are, and most importantly what this all means to you, your customers, and your business.…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Hybrid IT is a “both-and” world. IT leaders think in terms of both on-premises infrastructure and cloud. They focus on keeping the data center operating smoothly at high levels of availability and at the same time reducing costs. They’re looking for ways to get more value out of their current IT investments and carve out infrastructure for innovative business services.
Successful digital transformations are built around this kind of flexible, inclusive, “both-x-and-y” thinking.…
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A perennial problem in the IT world is how to handle the ebb and flow of user demand for IT resources. What is adequate to handle the demand at 3am on Sunday is not going to be sufficient to cope with the demand at noon on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. One way or another, IT resources must be sufficiently elastic to handle this range of user demand – they must be able to scale.…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]There is quite a large disconnect in the way breaches are evolving versus how security solutions are keeping up to address them. Virtualization adds an entire new layer of complexity to the puzzle. As a security strategist, I’m constantly evaluating what is possible to help identify gaps and opportunities. The one thing I have learned over the course of my career:
The only thing constant in cyber security is that attackers’ methods will continue to evolve. …
What makes the future exciting? Simplicity. In all of our wildest imaginings in stories and movies about what the future will be like, a simpler life is almost always a central theme, driven by amazing technologies. The world today is getting closer and closer to these imaginings. The smartphone gives us one place to do pretty much anything, anywhere. You don’t necessarily have to get out of bed to turn the lights off if you’ve equipped your home with “smart lights,” and you can use your phone to activate your robot vacuum while you do more valuable things.
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Keeping things fresh, that was the goal of the change a couple of years ago when we rebranded Connect’s in-booth Discover sessions from “SIG Meetings” to “Tech Forum’s.” The idea is to spend a half hour on a customer or product story and then an open forum with HPE support for attendees to ask the hard questions or ask for better ways of doing things.…
[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1566401381666{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In this quarter’s storage column, I want to share with you an article that was originally posted on my Around the Storage Block by Vish Mulchand. Vish is a Senior Director of Product Management and has broad industry experience.