E2: The Maestro’s Score – Opening Salvo
“Why are you putting your coat on?” Greg asked while peering over the cube wall. Marty slid his arm into his jacket and sighed. His small surge of excitement deflated a bit as now he had to enter...
View Article“I’m more than just my job!”
In this hectic, modern world, too often many people feel reduced to the sum of their professional responsibilities. In a small way, this feeling is driven by our current IT methods to determine...
View ArticleRunning Your Platform—Upgrade Much?
A common question for operations when considering running a platform for the first time is, what do you do to the platform when you are running all your apps on it? Be it for patches, upgrades,...
View ArticleThe self-encrypted drives erasure puzzle
Self-Encrypted Drives (SEDs) provide hardware-level security for sensitive on-disk data. Data on SEDs is encrypted using a combination of an internal key and a drive access password. Using SEDs is...
View ArticleDriving Digital Business with Hybrid Cloud
Corporations today must digitize their processes, personalize the customer experience, and innovate at an unprecedented pace. Yet too few have implemented the technology platform needed to truly...
View ArticleLooking Back, Looking Ahead: Why I Came to RSA
As I complete six months at RSA, I wanted to reflect upon a critical decision I made a number of years ago that eventually led me here. I had been at a large tech company and over the years fostered...
View Article#Boole2School Campaign Officially Launches
The Boole2School Campaign officially launched on 29th September 2015 at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Over 21,000 students from across the globe have already signed up for the lessons on 2nd...
View Article[PODCAST] #17 – EMC vVNX with Rahul Pradhan & Phil Triede
Simulated EMC Celerra and VNX instances have been around for a few years now, and has provided many with the ability to become familiar with web based Unisphere management interface and how to setup...
View ArticleMy Kinda SOC
A Security Operations Center(SOC) helps enterprises detect,respond and investigate security incidents. As breaches continue to grow, more enterprises are looking for building or outsourcing their SOC....
View ArticleProgressive ECM: An “Un-ECM” Approach
Sometimes drawing contrasts can help crystalize one’s thinking. In the world of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) there are two contrasting approaches: Traditional: Leaning towards an emphasis on...
View ArticleIs Your Data Center Ready for a Natural Disaster?
Agility of a business is increasingly dependent on agility of IT. Mission critical is no longer limited to medical records and financial transactions. A few hours of downtime for your CRM system...
View Article8 Tips for Redefining the Customer Experience in the Digital World
Ever think about what happens in a digital minute? The numbers are mind-boggling—51,000 Apple downloads, more than 4 million Facebook likes, and about 4,300 unique visitors to Amazon, just to name...
View ArticleBreakfast with ECS: Containers and Community Innovation
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Breakfast with ECS, a series where we will look at issues related to cloud storage and ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage), EMC’s cloud-scale storage platform. Recently,...
View ArticleIntroducing The Newly Redesigned Apache HAWQ
Yesterday, Pivotal announced that we donated the Pivotal HAWQ core to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and it is now an officially incubating project. Apache HAWQ (incubating) is a redesign of...
View Article7 Data Backup Tips for Enterprises Moving to the Cloud
If you’re one of countless enterprises migrating your business applications to cloud services, you know all about the benefits you’ll be enjoying soon; but cloud adoption isn't without challenges....
View ArticleMADlib’s Journey To Apache: Math, Stats & Machine Learning Methods
MADlib is now an Apache Software Foundation Incubator project! Together with Apache HAWQ (incubating), the MADlib open source project has transitioned its development and governance models to be in...
View ArticleEmployees Drive the Total Customer Experience
Delivering the best Total Customer Experience (TCE) possible is a year round effort. It starts with employees and the amazing work that takes place each day – and often each night – around the world....
View ArticleEpisode #1 of Defend the Kingdom concludes...
The exciting tales of Marty Bishop have begun and last week Episode #1 - Enter the Maestro concluded. We find our intrepid hero investigating a series of interesting traffic patterns flowing over the...
View ArticleNew Advanced Detection Methods Help Find Threats
Advanced detection techniques are required as the threat landscape gets more challenging. In an Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey of chief information security officers, two-thirds of respondents...
View ArticleHow to Invest In Employee Engagement To Drive Better Customer Experience
Carolyn Muise Employees embody the customer experience every time they interact with a customer, design a product, or create a new process. That means an investment in your employees is an investment...
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