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If you wanna be a Record Breaker…..
A few years ago I was writing a blog for EMC called ‘DocumentumWorld’. We ran it for close to two years before work got crazy and I couldn’t find the time to be creative but now I have been asked …...
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The New IT - We either disrupt ourselves, or we will get disrupted.
This week I attended CiscoLive! 2015. John Chambers delivered the opening keynote and he asserted that businesses either disrupt themselves, or their competitors will disrupt them. He sited examples...
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Passwords & Pins are dead (Are they really?)
Increasingly, we’ve been hearing the drumbeat, announcing the imminent death of passwords and pins, as we know them today. In 2012, I started a company, primarily to help hammer in the nails on the...
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The Storage Admin is dead, Long Live the Storage Admin!
Now before you send flowers and a note of condolence to your IT department, please be assured this is not a literal declaration. The above snowclone is based on a traditional proclamation made...
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Cyber Insurance: The Norm
The Risk Management Society (RIMS), just published the results of a Cyber Survey they conducted with their membership. RIMS is a global not-for-profit organization founded in 1950, representing more...
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Shift—or get out of the way of the patient toward better healthcare
Healthcare has a change problem, or a drinking problem depending on whom you ask. On the one hand, well-intentioned health leaders are drinking from the wrong end of the Kool-Aid filled waterfall,...
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Can Businesses Be Resilient Alone?
Can businesses and organizations be resilient on their own? By this I mean is it enough for a business organization to build resilient internal processes, IT infrastructure, facilities, and even...
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Big Data Maturation
This past week I attended CiscoLive! 2015, as EMC’s Big Data “expert”. It was validated during this conference that every business, in every industry is collecting data from new sources, and...
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The Growing Impact of Video Surveillance on Storage and IT Staff
Well I can thankfully say I made it back from EMC World in Las Vegas safe and sound without losing any money from playing Black Jack. But I did gain some insights into how EMC IT customers are...
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VMware KB Digest – New KB articles published for week ending 6/13/15
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....
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Blurred Lines – A Theme for the Public and Private Sectors
I recently had an opportunity to speak to a group of cyber security leaders from across industry and government who had gathered at the Army Cyber Institute in West Point, N.Y. Much of the day was...
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Is Traditional IT Still Relevant?
Traditionally, IT organizations have provided infrastructure and basic support to the business as a monopoly. We used to think of (and deliver) projects in ERP terms with complex, multiyear...
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Enterprise Vendor Management: Checking the Heartbeat of Vendor Relationships
By Michael Dobbin — Director, IT Partner Management, EMC IT In our recent series of blogs about EMC IT’s Enterprise Vendor Management Office (EVMO), we offered insights on how to create an IT...
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Is Traditional IT Still Relevant?
Traditionally, IT organizations have provided infrastructure and basic support to the business as a monopoly. We used to think of (and deliver) projects in ERP terms with complex, multiyear...
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Changing the Culture at Allstate—An Interview With Matt Curry
How does an 84 year old insurance company transform business and IT groups into a cloud-centric model? Surprisingly, Allstate’s Matt Curry, Director of Platform Engineering (and prior PayPal “IT...
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The On-going Threat of Social Engineering
I spoke recently at a meeting of the Dublin, Ireland chapter of ISACA about the continued (and increasing) use of social engineering in cyberattacks discussed in several recent reports, including the...
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How Would You Like Your Cloud?
Clouds come in many flavors to suit different types of applications and address a myriad of customer needs, but what if I told you we can now cater to all? I’m delighted with our recent announcement...
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Five Goals to Strive For to Improve the Technical Transfer Process in Life...
In the drug development process, time to market, billions in IP investments, and most importantly, human lives are at stake. One of the greatest challenges of the process is ensuring that...
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What is cascade delete and why is it a threat to your Salesforce data?
If you’ve ever lost data is Salesforce, perhaps through accidental deletion or a data merge error, you know how frustrating it can be to retrieve that data. Sifting through the Salesforce manual...
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Data lakes for data science
Big data can be challenging for an enterprise organization, because big data affects data scientists, application developers, and infrastructure managers differently. Each of these specialists has...
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