Relentless Attacks Demand Continuous Security

by Jason Brvenik

Attackers are using time and patience to their advantage. Yet traditional security technologies can only detect an attack at a point in time, which on its own is limiting when dealing with sophisticate...

Data Governance Based on Roles and Responsibilities is Key to Avoiding Regulatory Risk

by Jonathan Sander

Data governance is critical to managing the availability, integrity and security of all data across the enterprise. Every organization must comply with today’s copious amounts of external regulation...

Eight Secrets Most Backup Vendors Don't Want you to Know

by Dr. Mark Campbell

Every industry has its secrets, and the backup market is no different. While widely known within the industry itself, many backup providers do a great job of keeping these secrets from current and p...

Taming Big Data E-Discovery Using the Cloud

by John Tredennick

The business world is accumulating data at a staggering rate. Every day, estimates say, we create 2.5 exabytes of data. That number will double by 2014. Just one business, Walmart, is said to collect ...

Horses for Courses: Betting on the Right Cloud Environment

by Simon Aspinall

A horse race is a complex environment, with many factors that contribute to performance. The term “horses for courses” stems from the fact that a racehorse performs best on a racecourse to which it...

The Cost of Doing Nothing

by Mark Haynie

Senior IT executives with a lifetime of experience managing datacenters are facing career-threatening choices

Here's the scenario: You're an IT senior manager with millions of lines of valuable and ...

The Top Mobile Network Challenges That Will Make or Break Operators

by Lyn Cantor

For communications service providers, 2013 is shaping up as a year of momentous change for mobile service providers. The world is now shipping more smartphones and tablets than PCs, yet operators struggle...

SMB Disaster Recovery: Plan Now or Pay Later

by Michael Krutikov

SMBs have been hearing for years about the need to have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. But this advice largely falls on deaf ears. An alarming number of SMBs, 74 percent, have no plan in place to de...

The Evolution of Encryption: A Look at Thales e-Security's 2012 Global Encryption Trends Study

by Kim Borg

In stark contrast to many other security technologies, encryption has matured from being solely a security operations-level issue into being a grown-up business-level issue that can impact an entire o...

Anonymous Social Media for Healthcare

by M.K.

Recently, I was reading about an anonymous social media site focused on healthcare. It allows doctors and patients to share discussions about specific symptoms. Anonymously. Great idea. The world of social medi...

Microsoft's Push to the Cloud: Are You Ready?

by Shyam Oza

It seems that Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Online are finally treading on a much less infamous part of the very infamous Gartner Hype Cycle from the depths of the trough of disill...

Implementing Network Convergence for Lower Capex and Opex

by Tim Lustig

Driven by additional costs and the ever increasing difficulties to justify separate data and storage networks, many organizations are researching the possibility of merging their dedicated Fibre Channel st...

Ten Years After - Where Security Monitoring Still Falls Short: Part Two

by John Linkous

This article is the second in a two-part series. Read the first part here .

If you read the first half of this article and you’re a security professional who has experienced a major incident simil...

How Migrating Sales to the Cloud Transformed a Traditional Textbook Company

by Michael Kelly

Since our launch in 1915, Nebraska Book Company has seen the textbook industry evolve and enter the digital age. With e-commerce sites such as Amazon.com and eBay.com ushering in a new way of buying an...