Archive for March, 2011
Oracle is getting increasingly active in the storage business and it looks to have the desire, resources, and products to become more of a factor in the overall marketplace. Although a non-traditional player in this space, its Sun/StorageTek acquisition, combined with its traditional areas of strength, are creating an opportunity ...
Please excuse the obtuse heading to this piece: I love puns and I love connections, so this blog entry has two parts that together make up the one confusing title. Anyhow, you read this far so you may as well continue!
“Heard But Not Hurd”–Last week I was at HP‘s annual analyst event. ...
I’m not sure exactly when it happens, but as a company gets big, it turns into its own country. A country with a capitalistic agenda, but a country nonetheless. Look at any big company–take your pick.
At the upper echelons of any big company sits the political power. While ...
While not commenting directly on any deal, Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, says that in terms of product, NetWitness with its NextGen monitoring offering would give RSA with its enVision security information and event management SIEM offering "an additional source of network activity" and '"another angle on ...
Server virtualization technology has created one of biggest periods of transformation in IT and while almost every organization is leveraging it, there are different levels of adoption and maturity. ESG sought to understand how these more mature or advanced users differed from those who were just beginning ...
File-level recovery on its own, while an important mainstay in data protection best practices, is an incomplete strategy when it comes to meeting today’s stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) for complete system recovery. Whether it’s a physical or virtual machine, the time necessary to “rebuild” the server stack and re-establish ...
The folks at RSA called me the other day to discuss what they could about the breach and what they are telling customers. As far as the breach goes, RSA didn’t tell me anything new. The breach is being classified as an APT and RSA is working ...
Whether it is data loss, corruption, or even a simple lack of data access, an organization needs to be confident that it can recover within a pre-determined time to avoid lost business. Data loss is not an option for companies of any size and, given the pressures IT organizations face ...
I will not waste a lot of time discussing what an APT is, I will just say that it is a sophisticated attack where hackers have enough time and funding to use very advanced techniques to get company and government secrets (or money).
My preferred APT of all ...
I took a few days to comment on the RSA breach because I wanted to see what more I could learn about the details rather than speculate about what might be. But in the end, as far as what lessons the customer can take from this breach, the details don't ...
