Your top IT governance questions answered
1. What is the biggest IT governance mistake enterprises make? One of the biggest mistakes we make on the IT governance side is the failure to recognize and adapt to change. For example, as was highlighted over the past 2.5 years, the pandemic forced us to change from a mostly onsite workforce, to a completely […]
How IT Teams Can Work Smarter, Not Harder With Observability
Even in the days of the ENIAC—the first general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945—we knew data isn’t useful unless it’s in the hands of the right people at the right time With good data, teams can work together, and companies can make informed decisions to meet the needs of their suppliers and customers. Data matters […]
Unify your islands of information with a data fabric
Every enterprise is under a mandate to be a data-first company by leveraging their data to compete on analytics. As a result, analytics, AI, and machine learning (ML) have become core technologies for any data-first journey. However, many of these initiatives are failing. I’m sure you know or are experiencing the challenges responsible for these […]
Database Consistency Explained
Database consistency is defined by a set of values that all data points within the database system must align to in order to be properly read and accepted Should any data that does not meet the preconditioned values enter the database, it will result in consistency errors for the dataset. Database consistency is achieved by establishing rules. […]
Is Your Data Hot or Cold?
How data usage defines categorization Did you know that your data has a temperature? It’s true. However, that temperature has nothing to do with Fahrenheit or Celsius, or even how healthy your data is. The “temperature” of your data refers to two things: A brief history The temperature references for data were initially developed when […]
The Evolution of OSS Security Technologies
Cloud computing software and services universally use open-source software (OSS) such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Python. But while Linux has long included security capabilities, as did SNORT (a computer-based network intrusion detection system software), other OSS have seemingly had less impact on security—until now. Today, we see significant changes happening. For example, TechGenix reports, […]
Why is disaster recovery not central to the security solution?
Businesses take all kinds of risks Take new product or service launches, for example – success here is always uncertain. Most estimates suggest that the chance of any new product launch being successful is extremely low. Spending money in fresh business areas is a calculated risk that the business hopes will pay dividends in the […]
Design Considerations for Building a Multi-Cloud Strategy
Delivering on a multi-cloud strategy is as difficult as deciding whether to have a multi-cloud strategy at all Careful thought must be made for a multi-cloud decision, and then careful planning and flawless execution are required to achieve your goals. Let’s not confuse a multi-cloud strategy with the usage of multiple clouds. In the former, […]
How to optimise cloud spend for success and flexibility
Cloud computing has underpinned the world’s remote workforces and critical supply chains as government’s and organisations continue to try to avoid economic disaster during the pandemic Most organisations operate in the cloud in some way or another, and the digital transformation brought on by the pandemic challenges has only increased this trend. According to IDC, […]
Why SASE Has Earned A Seat At The Table At Your Next Board Meeting
Businesses have just endured one of the most economically disruptive periods in modern history, but disruption often leaves opportunity in its wake One of the small silver linings of the pandemic is that it acted as an accelerant for digital transformation, from getting workers set up for secure remote working, to deploying SD-WAN solutions in […]