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Two Insights into Why Enterprises are Finally Embracing Public Cloud Computing

May 31, 2018

In between my travels, doing research, and taking some time off in May, I also spent time getting up to speed on Amazon Web Services by studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associated exam in anticipation of DCIG doing more public cloud-focused competitive research. While I know it is no secret that cloud adoption has taken off in recent years, what has puzzled me during this time is, “Why is it now that have enterprises finally started to embrace public clouds?”

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Hackers Say Goodbye to Ransomware and Hello to Bitcoin Mining

May 3, 2018

Ransomware gets a lot of press – and for good reason – because when hackers break through your firewalls, encrypt your data, and make you pay up or else lose your data, it rightfully gets people’s attention. But hackers probably have less desire than most to be in the public eye and sensationalized ransomware headlines bring them unwanted attention. That’s why some hackers have said goodbye to the uncertainty of a payout associated with getting a ransom for your data and instead look to access your servers to do some bitcoin mining using your CPUs.

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Cool New Features and Offerings from AWS

February 22, 2018

Amazon has made significant progress in the last few years to dispel the notion that Amazon Web Services (AWS) primary purpose is as a repository for archives and backups. During this time, it has demonstrated time and time again it is well suited to host even the most demanding of production applications. However, what companies may still fail to realize is just how far beyond being a leading provider of cloud storage services that AWS has become. Here are some recent cool new offerings and features available from AWS that indicate how far it has come in terms of positioning itself to host enterprise applications of any type as well as satisfy specific enterprise demands.

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Veritas Delivering on its 360 Data Management Strategy While Performing a 180

September 21, 2017

Vendors first started bandying about the phrase “cloud data management” a year or so ago. While that phrase caught my attention, specifics as what one should expect when acquiring a “cloud data management” solution remained nebulous at best. Fast forward to this week’s Veritas Vision 2017 and I finally encountered a vendor that was providing meaningful details as to what cloud data management encompasses while simultaneously performing a 180 behind the scenes.

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A Full Embrace of the Cloud Has Occurred … Now the Challenge is to Successfully Get and Stay There

July 10, 2017

Ever since I got my first job in IT in the mid-1990’s, everyone has used a cloud in some form. Whether they referred to it as outsourcing, virtualization, central IT, or in some other way, the cloud existed and grew but it did little to stem the adoption of distributed computing. Yet at some point over the past few years, the parallel growth of these two technologies stopped and the cloud forged ahead. This shift indicates that companies have now fully embraced the cloud but remain unclear about how best and how soon to transition their IT infrastructure to the cloud and then manage it once it is there.

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Five Key Changes for CIOs to Adopt to Successfully Evolve their Roles Within Today’s Enterprise

October 26, 2012

The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is evolving as enterprises worldwide attempt to navigate their way through the fundamental changes required to keep pace with the explosion of Cloud Computing, Social Media, Big Data and Mobile Computing. Information Governance, Compliance, eDiscovery, Data Security and Business Intelligence are now more important than ever. If the CIO can’t keep pace, the fate of the entire enterprise may be at stake.

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Nirvanix Takes Another Step Toward Becoming the De Facto Standard in Enterprise Cloud Storage

December 6, 2011

“Nirvanix was about a year ahead of everyone else in terms of what it could offer for enterprise cloud storage services.” Making this claim is Fred Rodi, the CEO of DRFortress, who over the last year had to look ahead to determine which storage provider could best position DRFortress and it customers for the future of cloud storage. So when it came time for DRFortress to make the choice, Nirvanix was the hands down winner.

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USC Upshifts to the Cloud

November 17, 2011

Right now many organizations are debating about who to select as their preferred cloud storage provider. But for organizations like USC that already manage petabytes of unstructured data, the decision is not about which provider to choose. Rather it is about deciding on the right technology that can transform it into both a private cloud storage user and a public cloud storage provider.

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