Want to learn more about the Research behind the Phoenix Project?
The Phoenix Project So The Phoenix Project has been out for about a month now (read an excerpt here), and it has been the talk of IT and IS professionals all over the place. I’ve been pestering Gene...
View ArticleWhy are Organizations Adopting Continuous Availability?
Recently, Paul Danahy, EMC Sr. Director, Global Product Sales, and I had a chance to sit down with Stephanie Balaouras, Vice President and Research Director of Forrester Research to talk about a study...
View ArticleYou’ve Got to Fight…for Your Right…to Service Excellence
My wife and I just bought a house. Throughout the purchasing process there were several parties ready and willing to financially benefit from both the buyer and the seller. And it’s so much more than...
View ArticleContinuous Availability: What You Need To Know (Part 1)
According to a new study from Forrester Research, the rate of adoption for a continuous availability approach is on the rise. A major reason for that uptick is that at many organizations, most...
View ArticleValentine’s Day Present
It’s that time of year when love and romance is in the air. I am sure everyone is looking for a good Valentine’s Day Present, so look no farther as I have a great suggestion—well, that is if your...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide (Draft–Rev A)-Now Available
With more and more IT departments now updating their VMware vSphere environments to vSphere 5.1 it is a good time for them to review their vSphere security. The good news is that VMware have just...
View ArticleHarper Reed on the Power of Data, at Hadoop: the Foundation for Change
Photo by Joi Ito via Fotopedia. (CC BY 2.0) Big Data’s impact is wide-ranging, from business to media, the sciences to politics. These massive shifts are largely powered by Hadoop, a flexible,...
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View ArticleEmbedding Vine Video in WordPress
I’ve started to look at Vine and how we can use it in a work context, but obviously this necessitated me seeing what could be done and how you can embed Vine Video in WordPress etc. So as part of my...
View ArticleSeducing Porcupines
Using Big Data and technology to create intimacy and change the biggest and most obstinate healthcare cost driver: Consumer Behavior. What do most businesses do with customers that behave poorly,...
View ArticleVirsto, how do I back it up?
The moment anyone inside EMC or VMware buys anything, ever, the first question I get from an end user or a sales person is ‘How do I back it up?’ VMware acquires Virsto on Monday evening and starting...
View ArticleContinuous Availability: More On What You Need to Know (Part 2)
According to the Forrester Research study that I mentioned in my previous blog post, there still is a lot of confusion in the marketplace about continuous availability (CA), including what it is and...
View ArticleDesktop Virtualization Solutions Architect / Dallas, TX or San Jose, CA
Job Title: Desktop Virtualization Solutions Architect Location: Dallas, TX or San Jose, CA Duration: 1+ year The Desktop Virtualization Solutions Architect provides technical and business consultative...
View ArticleVMware Consultant – Palo Alto, CA
Title : VMware Consultant Location : Palo Alto CA Duration : 12 Months Responsibility: * VMware products (ESX, View Client, vCenter) * Analyzing and reviewing logs diagnostics generated by these...
View Article[Security-announce] UPDATED VMSA-2013-0002.1 VMware ESX, Workstation, Fusion,...
In our effort to provide our viewers with up to the minute information on VMware related news and topics, we’re posting the following Security Alert direct from the VMware Security Alert distribution....
View ArticleThe Predictive Enterprise (Part 2)
Annika Jimenez, Senior Director, Analytics Solutions at Greenplum With the very initiation of a data science-powered transformation, the endeavor and whoever is driving it are acknowledging that the...
View ArticlePCI SSC Releases Cloud Guidance
It looks like it’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Council! We saw their release of the eCommerce guidelines, which had some good nuggets while missing the key point of understanding the...
View Article10 Reasons Why Hadoop Will Dominate in 2013
The Apache Hadoop platform has been ascendant in recent years, thanks to its flexibility, rich developer ecosystem, and ability to suit the analytics needs of developers, web startups and enterprises....
View ArticleNext Generation Security Operations: The Breach Escalated
To continue with my series on the Next Generation of Security Operations, I want to look at how well security operations are positioned for the be-all, end-all of security – the actual Security...
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