A Cybersecurity Sit-Down with Former FBI Computer Scientist James Morrison Shannon GillenwaterSeptember 21, 20210300 views $10.5 trillion...with a ‘T’. That’s roughly a 75% increase from the $6 trillion that cyber criminals and hacker organizations are already costing us in 2021. Hence why cybersecurity, unpleasant a topic of conversation as it may be, needs to be discussed and dealt with in every boardroom across the country. Read more
Five steps to transform to on-premises cloud services Erik VogelSeptember 23, 20200263 views Not all applications can be run in the public cloud. Here's how to get the cloud to come to you. By now, the benefits of the cloud are well known: reduced costs, improved scalability, increased efficiency, and more agility. But not all enterprise applications, workloads, and data are suited for it. Compliance and security issues prevent moving some to the public cloud, while complex dependencies among applications won't allow others to run there. In some cases, it is financially unfeasible or impractical to move them. Read more
Editor’s Letter – Fall 2020 Stacie NeallSeptember 22, 20200192 views Perspective is a funny thing these days. In the long run, no matter how much life has changed, I hope we all have the opportunity to learn something new, brush up on a skill set and throw in a few random acts of kindness. I love the quote by Emerson because it says that difficult times are small compared to the determination within us. Read more
Around The Storage Block Calvin ZitoSeptember 22, 20200277 views We spend a lot of time and energy talking about HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage – for good reason as I really believe they are the best one-two punch of mid-range and Tier-0 mission critical storage in the industry. Read more
Working—and Thriving—in the Age of Digital Transformation Hewlett Packard EnterpriseSeptember 22, 20200229 views In the past decade, we’ve experienced a global acceleration of digital transformation as many things that we once did in-person are now routinely done online—communicating, shopping, dating, finding entertainment, and applying for jobs, to name a few. One area that has undergone a particularly dramatic change is employment as people’s desires (and fears) around working from home have been realized, either by choice or by mandate. Read more
Möbius Partners Success Story: Improving Cluster Management and System Updates Kevin D. HallSeptember 22, 20200185 views Recently Möbius Partners worked with a client who lacked high-performance computing (HPC) cluster manageability tools that resulted in non-standardized operating systems and patching inconsistencies. This customer entrusted our team to provide a solution that would be “easy to use and manage” by their own staff. To overcome these challenges, our team first redeployed HPC with HPE Cluster Management Utility (CMU), which enabled the client to manage multiple images and cluster resources with a standard operating system.… Read more
Lisa Partridge of XYPRO Technology Corporation: How We Plan To Rebuild In The Post COVID Economy Charlie KatzSeptember 22, 20200185 views Everything that happens is ultimately my responsibility. Period. However, one cannot and should not do it all alone. No one person has all the answers and think of all the perspectives to consider when making decisions. Read more
Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset Demands A New Approach To Cybersecurity CohesitySeptember 22, 20200210 views Today, data is likely your most valuable and vulnerable strategic asset, and yet many of the methods for storing and protecting it are decades old. Data is not only a record of what has happened; it can also be used to anticipate the future and train machines to make human-like decisions in an instant. It has become a fungible and strategic asset that drives key processes. Read more
Software development reset – A remote DevOps epiphany Mario DevargasSeptember 22, 20200275 views No aspect of society seems able to escape being altered by the tragic outbreak of COVID-19. The now well-known slogan “Stay-at-Home” has given rise to a future where working from home has become the norm rather than the exception. Even the IT sector has felt its impact. New ways of working and collaborating are being quickly deployed and implemented. Many organizations are learning they need to re-engineer business and IT processes and how they are consumed in order to adapt.… Read more
AI: Living on the Edge Frederic Van HarenSeptember 22, 20200374 views Every day, new users join a growing group of consumers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Innovative applications such as voice assistants, self-driving cars, smart cities are all contributing to the democratization of AI. The amount of data generated from those applications, as well as wireless devices such as phones and tablets, is staggering. Read more