Some Firms Giving Hackers a Taste of Their Own Medicine
One of the great sports cliches is the best defense is a good offense. I’m not sure that’s always true actually, but Reuters reported this week that it’s a strategy being employed increasingly by companies to at least punish hackers who get inside their defenses. The idea is to fight back, rather than simply wait for government or law enforcement to intervene, which so far at least, has been mostly ineffective in stopping hackers from having their way with just about anyone, anywhere, any time. Some firms are taking a legal proactive approach, but according to the...
read moreSurvey Finds Organizations Struggle to Harness Big Data
While organizations clearly see the value of big data, many are struggling to get a grip on the tools that will help them get at the information they know is there — so says a new report from AIIM called Big Data – extracting value from your digital landfill. The report found that Big Data as a trend is very real. In fact, when asked when they plan to make big data tool investments, more than half of respondents reported within three years with 10 percent reporting in the next 12 months. More than 5 percent have already started. How they plan to go about it though turns out to...
read moreToo Much Information: Monitoring Becomes a Big Data Problem
In a keynote address this week at EMC World, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talked about the growing monitoring challenge as system pools and the sheer amount of information these systems generate grows ever larger. To put it another way, monitoring has become a big data problem. He claimed that the number of devices connected to the Internet is going up by a factor of 10, and the growth is not just being fueled by humans, but also by an increasing number of internet-enabled devices feeding more and more data into the system. This ‘Internet of Things’ will interact with the virtual world...
read moreIT’s Reputation Problem
I don’t give a damn ’bout my bad reputation You’re living in the past it’s a new generation ~Joan Jett, Bad Reputation IT apparently has a reputation problem. You’re aloof, overpaid and you don’t do enough. Or so says a post in The Tech Republic that suggests 10 reasons why you’re underappreciated and, well so sorry to say it, not very well liked or even respected inside your organization. I’m not sure I agree with many of these reasons or even that it’s true. Blanket statements tend to be just that, and while they make good blog posts...
read moreBYOD, Cloud and Mobile Require New Monitoring Tools
When you look at the major trends that have been assaulting enterprise IT over the last several years, they all have a common bond, whether you’re talking about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), cloud, mobile or even social — it’s all about getting faster access to data. In days gone by IT controlled the entire technology process inside the enterprise from the devices to the software, but as these technology trends take hold, increasingly IT controls much less. Yet you are still expected to deliver the data whenever and wherever users want it, and of course it’s got be...
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