Next Generation Security Operations: Telescopes for the Lookouts
In my previous blog, I introduced the idea that the concepts around security incident response need to evolve based on the threat landscape facing organizations. The first step in heading towards...
View ArticleA New Chapter for EMC's New CTO
John Roese, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer I would like to introduce myself… my name is John Roese, and I am the new Global CTO of EMC Corporation. While I have been with the...
View ArticleConverged compute and storage solutions
Lately I have been looking more and more in to converged compute and storage solutions, or “datacenter in a box” solutions as some like to call them. I am a big believer of this concept as some of you...
View ArticleA new EMC FCoE “Case Studies” TechBook revision is available!
A new version of the “Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) Case Studies” TechBook is available. This version introduces a new Juniper QFX3500 case study as well as a few...
View ArticleFree VDI training videos from TrainSignal
First and foremost let me point out that TrainSignal (@TrainSignal) is a sponsor on this vTexan.com blog site. BUT I’d like to point out that I loved them before they were a sponsor Thank god for...
View ArticleThe Big Data Storymap
I wanted to share some recent work that we have been doing inside EMC Global Services, to create a “Big Data Storymap” that would help clients understand the big data journey in a pictorial format....
View ArticleWhat Matters Most to You? Get Executive Insights and Share Yours with the...
By Fred Kohout, EMC Vice President Global Channel Marketing, @nkohouts I’m excited to introduce a new video blog series, Channel Matters, featuring EMC executives who are keen to share their...
View ArticleGoing to Cisco Live in London this week? Don’t miss out on all the cool stuff!
If you’re one of the lucky ~4000 people who’ll attend Cisco Live in London this week, I hope you’ll enjoy it to the fullest. Make sure you go to interesting sessions, attend cool vendor demos in the...
View ArticleThe “Switch Target” Part I – Why Me?
By Peter M. Tran, Senior Director, RSA Advanced Cyber Defense Practice Conventional computer network defense (CND) concepts in the past 10 + years introduced practices such as adversary “beach head,...
View ArticleMy Favorite Posts
I've been taking a break over the last month or so from my typically frenetic blogging pace. For me, it's a good time for reflection, contemplation and recalibration -- all positive. Part of looking...
View ArticleVMware KB Digest – New Articles Published for Week Ending 1/26/13
In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following list of new KB Entries for this week, direct from VMware Support....
View ArticleThe Big Data Storymap
In "The Power Of Visual Thinking?" I shared a great visual tool that had been created by EMC Global Services -- a somewhat humorous storymap showing how IT organizations transformed from silos to...
View ArticlePerspective Is Everything, Or Is It?
Did you know the movie E.T. was nearly entirely filmed from the eye-level of the children? I didn’t, or at least I don’t recall knowing this; it’s been years since I watched the movie in its entirety....
View ArticleLinks from 2013-01-25 through 2013-01-28
Links from 2013-01-25 through 2013-01-28: Apple updates iOS fixing 27 vulnerabilities and TURKTRUST revocation | Naked Security – Do programmers understand the meaning of PRIVATE? | Naked Security –...
View ArticleIntroducing Bill Jacobs
Hello to my high-tech contacts, Twitter followers, and colleagues in the Big Data world. For 18 months, I’ve avoided the blogosphere. But alas, one of the New Year’s resolutions I intend to keep will...
View ArticleHow Starbucks is Revolutionizing Mobile (micro) Payments
For those of you that have not been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you may have patronized a Starbucks and seen a customer scan their phone at the checkout and then somehow...
View ArticleCloud vs. Evil
By Howard Rubin, Product Marketing Manager, Backup and Recovery Systems My blog last month entitled Cloud Control to Major Tom talked about the top five reasons enterprise don’t leverage cloud...
View ArticleMust-have Competencies for the Cloud in 2013
Following on from my last blog ‘Re-enforcing our doors in 2013’ solving all of the issues of disruptive innovations isn’t going to be possible in a year but we must take strides towards making some of...
View ArticleSQL Injection and Distributed Security
By Sandra Carielli, Senior Product Manager, Access and Data Protection It amazes me that SQL injection attacks are still prevalent, much less that they remain one of the most popular forms of attack....
View Article2012: A Good Year In Storage For EMC
There’s simply no arguing with the numbers – EMC continues to do very well indeed in the broader storage market and continuing to gain share in almost all sub-segments. While we’re not ones to rest on...
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