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The first installment of Securing the Enterprise – LockBOX HOW DO I MANAGE RISK WITHIN THE CLOUD? Cloud computing is becoming one of the hottest trends in the enterprise, and information security practitioners, like myself, must understand the significant changes from the implementation of the cloud and the enterprise risk that results. The evolution of [...]

I’m wrapping up a week of training on Data Center Unified Computing Implementation, covering implementing the Cisco UCS. My employer, Varrow, sent me here because we’re selling UCS’s like hot cakes. My exposure to the UCS platform prior to this training had been minimal, but I knew that there must be something about UCS to [...]

This past week I tasked myself with getting Networker 7.6 setup in our lab.  The long term plan is to get it integrated in to our entire environment which includes Celerra NAS’, Avamar, Data Protection Advisor, DataDomain, etc, etc.  The cool thing is that Networker can act as your single pane of glass to manage [...]

We’re starting to see a serious uptake in interest in deploying the Nexus 1000v virtual distributed switch.  I believe the latest service release calmed some fears about this new product and having some references to point at always helps.  As we perform more implementations we’re starting to see some things that customers need to be [...]

Multi-Tenancy by the shear definition of the word has been around for years. Wikipedia states traditional multi-tenancy is, “..a principle in software architecture  where a single instance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants).” It goes on to say, “..multiple customers share(ing) the same application, running on the same operating system, on the same hardware, with the same data storage mechanism. The distinction between the customers is achieved…

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The recent hack attempts and successes against many companies, including Google, have been the talk in many IT circles and commercial organizations lately. It was a wake up call on several different levels. For one, you have a pretty successful infiltration of some very large and important organizations. You also have Google, the best known [...]

So today Google announced new pricing for storage.  So if you need 16TB for Picasa or Gmail, they have you covered.  It’s cheap too…  16TB is $4096.  By the way, kudos for the Base-2 pricing, I love it.  I hope we see more of this in the future.  I’d love for Apple to let me [...]

As the tides of Cloud Computing come in, the shroud of cloud is incrementally being lifted by those that are defining it. As noted by Mike D, here is a tasty vid from rpath explaining how even the concepts of Cloud Computing can be simplified with a bit of humor and a healthy helping of [...]

With any new technology there inevitably is a gingerly entrance to running that technology ripe. Call it trust, call it needed stick time, but we as customers need proof of that reliability factor. So its not surprising that cloud based backup services are prime to lead the herd into obscurity.
You have to respect the irony [...]