Coordinating Incident Response at Internet Scale (CARIS)
Coordinating incident response at Internet scale as a concept sounds fabulous, but can we achieve it? What will it take? For those working in incident response and information sharing efforts, we know...
View ArticleWhat’s Driving the Data Lake?
EMC’s Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL) announcement has been a long time in the making. It’s been a perfect storm of industry trends that enable big data and make data lakes a feasible data...
View ArticleBusiness Resiliency - The Tide that Lifts all Risks
Have you heard the term, "a rising tide lifts all boats"? It's an aphorism that refers to the broad, positive effect that benefits all participants of something such as a strengthening economy or a...
View ArticleFree Hosting with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Our Cloud Operations team runs Cloud Foundry at scale for developers on Pivotal Web Services (PWS) while lending their expertise to customers operating their own dedicated cloud native platform. This...
View ArticleTaking the Pulse of Identity in Retail
In a recent webcast on Identity management for the retail sector, we asked attendees five poll questions to better understand their level of concern and the state of their capabilities for managing...
View ArticleIs It Time to Measure IT Differently?
Pinpointing the business value of IT isn’t a new endeavor, obviously. But, as Steven Norton writes in the Wall Street Journal, proving the value of IT today means more than reporting on the...
View ArticleSafety First
You probably wouldn’t leave your house without locking the doors. Or ride a motorcycle without a helmet. And you most certainly wouldn’t leave your agency’s data unprotected. What do these scenarios...
View ArticleAnnouncing Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Amazon Web Services
Pivotal Cloud Foundry can now deploy applications natively on Amazon Web Services, offering a single deployment experience across public and private clouds. This multi-cloud accessibility ensures...
View ArticleA Time of Disruption and Opportunity
History has shown that the advent of revolutionary new technologies brings about great disruption to existing businesses and business models, while at the same time creating new, larger, opportunities...
View ArticleThe View from the Clouds: What It Means to Be Part of Spanning by EMC
Most people dread the question, “How do you like your job?” Familiar responses often range from, “It pays the bills,” to, “It depends what mood my boss is in!” But that’s not what you’ll hear from...
View ArticleTake A Risk, A Calculated Risk
Taking risk is necessary in today’s business world. Cultivating the data and orchestrating the information to enable a risk decision is a critical step for management to make an informed choice. GRC...
View ArticleArcher Content Library Updates – Q1/2015
Hello everybody! 2015 has us off and running with several big updates headed your way! First and foremost, NIST 800-53A Revision 4 is ready to rock in Archer. If you’re unfamiliar with 53A...
View ArticleAll Things Pivotal Podcast Episode #21–Platforms vs. Platform as a Service
In this Pivotal Conversations Podcast episode (the first!), Coté talks with Andrew Shafer about “platforms” vs. “Platform as a Service.” We discuss all the operational and architectural concerns...
View ArticleData Value and Placement Constraint
In my last few posts I've been exploring the following thesis: As the economic value of data rises, the need for it to be stored on trusted infrastructure rises as well. The economic value of data can...
View ArticleWould You Rather, Part 1: Authenticate Users or Monitor Transactions?
There is a popular conversational game that children play typically known as “Would You Rather,” in which someone asks you to choose between two options and explain your reasons for making that...
View ArticleResponding to the Stress of Change
“What does it mean for me?” That’s the unspoken question underlying today’s technology conversations. From CIO to line administrator, everybody wants to know where the disruption we’re seeing with the...
View ArticleThe Budget Dilemma: Big Data, Big Costs – The Information Dilemma – Part 3
In part 1 of this blog series, I discussed the importance of taking stock and getting organized to better understand the value of your data. In part 2, I talked about the two myths of Big Data and...
View ArticleWhat’s Next from VMware
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined VMware’s strategy for the software-defined data center, enterprise hybrid cloud and end-user computing at an EMC Federation forum held in New York on March 10, 2015....
View ArticleIT Compliance - All About That Base…Standard
When it comes to IT risk management approaches few things can spark more debate than the use of standards. To explore that is to ponder another alphabetic quagmire of acronyms, categories, and random...
View ArticleData Migrations: Seven10 and EMC Revolutionize the Industry Paradigm
*The following is a guest blog post by Bobby Moulton, President & CEO of Seven10 Storage Software, a leading developer of cloud-based information lifecycle management (ILM) and data migration...
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