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There are three key components when we talk about the concept of privacy: Laws, customs and expectations. The importance of each part of this trifecta will vary across geographic regions, generations, and groups. But in order to meet these diverse expectations, companies processing personal information need to offer their customers regional solutions. Cue data residency. By Peter Day, Head of Privacy and Security at Mixpanel.
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Today, most companies are talking about cloud, but – what they’re not doing is realising the true potential of its power. Be it a software developer, manufacturer, or an enterprise, we’re seeing more and more companies migrating to the cloud. By W. Curtis Preston, chief technologist at Druva.
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Knowledge is power; we’ve all heard the saying. In the business landscape, knowledge takes on the shape of data and, as such, there’s no denying there is a lot of knowledge floating about. In fact, recent estimates reveal there are over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being produced each day. A number that is only going to grow as digital becomes an ever-increasing part of our professional and personal lives. By Alberto Pan, Chief Technical Officer at Denodo.
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Why modern companies should ditch data silos and adopt unified software platforms By Sazzala Reddy - CTO & Co-Founder - Datrium.
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In the last several years the UK workforce has struggled to deal with many of the threats that have arisen with the growth of the digital economy. By Graham Hunter, VP Skills Certifications, CompTIA.
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As the cloud services market has developed, many businesses have forged exclusive service provider partnerships to benefit from the scale, agility and performance capabilities now offered by numerous large global hyperscalers. While their enormous success is testament to the way they have met the needs of businesses worldwide, many organisations have additional requirements relating to application performance, legacy applications, data hosted under certain jurisdictions, and data security. By Eltjo Hofstee, Managing Director, Leaseweb UK.
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By Michael Cade, Global Technologist at Veeam.
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Each year September rolls around, bringing with it the annual IT Professionals Day—a day dedicated to appreciating IT professionals, and the critical role they play in end users’ lives and in operating successful organisations across every sector. IT professionals are the hidden heroes regardless of where they work, but for those in the public sector, keeping technology up and running can be the difference between life and death in an operating theatre, or between a law being passed and a law being put on hold in government.
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For organisations operating Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the end is near; both are being shelved by Microsoft and will officially reach “end of life” status as of January 2020 and July 2019 respectively. It is impossible to determine the exact market share of each individual Microsoft Server operating systems in use; however, Ned Pyle, principal program manager in the Windows Server high availability and storage group, provided information indicating that the market share of those operating systems was around 40% in 2018 (1). Although these figures aren’t completely current, it is obvious that an important number of Windows 2008 servers are still in use despite losing access to security updates. So, how will businesses cope? By Aron Brand, CTO at CTERA.
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According to a recent report from 451 Research, the ability to migrate workloads easily between on-prem and public cloud is the number one reason that organisations opt for a hybrid IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, a significant divide exists today between traditional enterprise IT environments and the public cloud with different management models, consumption models, application architectures, and storage and data services. These differences can limit your ability to easily move enterprise and cloud-native applications where you need them. By Peter Gadd, VP EMEA Core, Pure Storage.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - a technology that can make fully-personalised, individual desktop virtual machines with user profile control and golden imaging, is realising new levels of growth recently, with the global VDI market expected to be worth almost $5 billion by 2020. By Alan Conboy, Office of the CTO, at Scale Computing.
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Bill Raftery, SVP of Global Storage Solutions, Curvature, discusses the advantages of outsourcing maintenance provision to bolster storage infrastructures that sit behind non-critical apps.
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