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Security
It's not easy to harden an operating system's configuration settings without the proper approach and resources.
Hundreds of security recommendations may exist to harden your Operating Systems (OS). That's why it's important to use industry-recognized guidelines to harden your OS. To give you a taste, we pulled five recommendations from the CIS Benchmark for Microsoft Windows Server 2019 - objective, consensus-driven security configuration guidelines. ...?more
From adopting zero-trust security models to dynamic environments to operating under an 'assumed breach' mentality, here are ways IT departments can reduce vulnerabilities as they move deliberately to become more secure.
Over the last few years, the modern office has evolved rapidly, with workforces becoming more mobile and geographically distributed than ever before. Even before COVID-19, modern enterprises were embracing the remote work model, and the average Fortune 500 company had more than 300 global office locations ...?more
Which comes first, security or compliance? In an ideal world, they work together seamlessly. Here's how to achieve that.
As numerous data compliance laws proliferate across the globe, security professionals have become too focused on checking their requirements boxes when they should be focused on reducing risk. Can the two work harmoniously together? ...?more
CxO Events
In this virtual event, we will discuss how CDR can help organizations continuously monitor their cloud environments and receive alerts when unusual activity occurs, along with recommended actions to be taken.
Security teams are responsible for detecting and preventing threats in their cloud estates. Yet, traditional detection & response security solutions don't have insight into cloud telemetry and only examine workload risks without looking at the big picture. Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) is a new category of solutions that solves these limitations ...?more
In this virtual event, presented by ITPro Today and InformationWeek, get a better picture of today's threat landscape; learn what tools and techniques can best help your organization detect and prevent these attacks; design a thorough incident response plan that will help your organization survive a successful attack intact; and be prepared with a fast answer to the age-old question: 'to pay or not to pay?' ...?more
This IDC Webinar provides an update on the state of the IT market and the outlook for technology budgets in 2022/23, with a focus on vertical industry trends and forecasts.
As the global economy enters what many believe will be a global recession, IT projects remain highly prioritized as part of renewed efforts towards achieving digital transformation. Against a challenging backdrop of rising inflation and weakening growth, organizations of all types are adjusting IT budgets to a new economic outlook and building contingency plans for the next 18 months. The impact of a weakening economy will vary significantly across geographies, industries and business types ...?more
ERP
Businesses can integrate their ERP and customer relationship management (CRM) software to streamline business processes and boost productivity
With an abundance of consumer data generated daily, business owners are witnessing a more complex business environment than ever post-pandemic ...?more
BI
You connected a business intelligence (BI) tool to a cloud-based warehouse and completed your first analytics project
Perhaps you've identified a new market opportunity or a way to gain some cost savings. The business wants more now that you've had your first analytics success. But your BI users have multiplied across the company, wishing to connect to the data warehouse and run analytics from the convenience of a web browser. You've realized that the answers to new questions will require access to sensitive data, such as customer address, age, demographics, and other personally identifiable information (PII). ...?more
Database
Beyond protecting enterprise databases from vulnerabilities, it is critical to improve and review their security on a regular basis. Learn more with these database security best practices.
The importance of securing sensitive information can't be overstated. Fortunately, most organizations have solid cybersecurity programs in place, using diverse sets of controls to achieve defense-in-depth security. Companies have hardened corporate servers, secured enterprise endpoints and deployed monitoring tools. They've also taken steps to eradicate sensitive information from endpoint devices and consolidate the most crucial corporate data in enterprise systems and the databases that support them. ...?more
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Cloud
As bad of an issue ransomware is within data centers, I was a bit skeptical that it was much of a problem in cloud. I, personally, hadn't run into any incidents and I started to think it was more theoretical than anything else
It turns out, I was a little wrong. Okay, totally wrong. Not only is it a bigger problem than I thought but the attack pattern was different than I expected...?more
Enterprises are still splashing the cash on cloud infrastructure services with market revenues leaping by a third in Q2 - unlike other parts of the industry that boomed in the pandemic but are now running out of steam ...?more
Are you considering a multi-cloud strategy for your organization? Getting this sequence of foundational steps right can make a huge difference, both economically and performance-wise.
FinOps or a cloud resource optimization solution like Archera, for example, is often brought into the picture after a company has already embarked on a multi-cloud approach and is knee-deep in long-term commitments. These solutions can help organizations avoid-or get further entangled in-problematic costs and contracts. We recommend a three-step approach for organizations that are going multi-cloud. ...?more
Backup
It's hard to ignore all the high-profile security incidents splashed all across the news, reinforcing how dangerous today's business landscape has become
The harsh reality is anyone can fall victim to a cyberattack or data loss incident, meaning no business or individual is safe. To put this into perspective, a new study by Positive Technologies found that cybercriminals can penetrate 93% of company networks and gain access to resources ...?more
It's near quadratic equality with just minor changes in the 2022 Gartner Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant. The only new entrant is HYCU, hustling in for the first time as a Visionary.
Enterprise backup and recovery software systems are, according to Gartner's definition, 'designed to capture a point-in-time copy (backup) of enterprise workloads in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud and SaaS environments and write the data to a secondary storage target for the purpose of recovering this data in case of loss.'...?more
Dell News
Dell Financial Services introduces a new, low rate payment promotion offer, good through October 28, 2022.
Interest rates are on the rise everywhere, but that shouldn't mean delaying critical investments in technology. Among the lessons we learned over the last couple of years is the importance of cutting-edge business technology in a world that is increasingly tech-driven and digital. ...?more
Take a behind the scenes look at how Dell IT used automation to improve its server decommissioning process.
Server decommissioning is an essential part of the equipment lifecycle process for any organization-and Dell Technologies is no exception. Like many companies, we wanted to find a faster, smarter, more efficient way to do this ...?more
Precision marks its silver anniversary with continued industry advancement and groundbreaking new systems.
As we celebrate a quarter-century of Dell Precision innovations this year, we've unveiled some of the industry's most powerful workstations. Since our first Precision workstation in 1997, Dell engineers have stepped up time and again, providing solutions for some of the most innovative minds in some of the most complex, ever-evolving professions. Driving many industry firsts, we introduced the world's first mobile workstation in 2001 and the world's first rackmount workstation in 2008. ...?more
Nutanix News
Updates Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2022 Financial Outlook
Nutanix a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced the appointment of Andrew Brinded as Chief Revenue Officer, effective immediately. Brinded succeeds Dominick Delfino, who has stepped down to pursue a new opportunity at another technology company ...?more
Gartner recognizes Nutanix as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software in 2021
As per Gartner, "the four new technologies I&O leaders must adopt on-premises to keep their data center infrastructure viable through 2025: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, platforms to support containers, NVMe-over-Fabric, and infrastructure to support artifical intelligence (AI) workloads". ...?more
Red Hat News
It is often extremely helpful for debugger-like tools such as gdb and valgrind to have access to additional debugging resources.
These files are generally found in package repositories and are difficult to locate manually. In this article we demonstrate how to quickly and easily set up a debuginfod server with Pulp so that all of the RPM packages managed by Pulp are available to the debuginfod client ...?more
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
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If you have been following the series, we have covered a fair amount up till now.
From determining the desired future state of the application(s) and reviewing challenges surrounding legacy code to making a case for funding the future state and creating an effective team to work on a modernization project in an enterprise environment.
The next logical question would be: "When will the project start, and how soon will it get done?" Before we can proceed, we need to map out the full scope of the modernization project. ...?more
Internal and external pressures in the last decade have pushed service providers to begin transforming their processes and adopt technology company, or "techco", characteristics.
Agile organizational structures and processes that leverage software are some initiatives companies have embarked on. Other approaches include flexible workforce, and ecosystem partnerships to create new and exciting services for customers ...?more