1. Reflections – EMC Executives Report From The Road
Security Analytics: The New Model
1 day ago
By Art Coviello, Executive Vice
President, EMC and Executive Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
I love technology. I like thinking about it. I
like talking about it. And I love leading the technology company, RSA, that
works so hard to be a force for good in our technology world. In addition,
I am lucky to have a parent company, EMC that is a force multiplier, and leading
the way to the cloud and Big Data. From time to time you have to pause and take
stock of where we are, where we’ve been, where we’re going and
why
we do what we do. So where
are we taking technology or, perhaps, where is technology taking us?
The Predictive Enterprise (Part 1)
6 days ago
By Annika Jimenez,
Senior Director, Analytics Solutions at Greenplum
Big Data is the latest technology wave impacting
C-Level executives across all areas of business, but amid the hype, there
remains confusion about what it all means. Big Data emphasizes volume,
diversification, low latencies, and ubiquity, whereas data science introduces
new terms including, predictive modeling, machine learning, parallelized and
in-database algorithms, Map Reduce, and model operationalization. Instead, I
want to emphasize a more important point regarding this new vernacular: It
infers an evolution beyond the traditional rigid output of aggregated data:
business intelligence.
2.
Storagezilla
Dell: Slash burn.
1 day ago
While Michael Dell might be crowing like a cockerel at
taking his company private the question for Dell customers should to be this… Now carrying an extra $15 billion in
debt, what’s Dell going to slash & burn first? With new
creditors to be paid what’s Dell going to stop investing in? You can put all
this talk Mike is floating about new acquisitions aside, anything Dell might
have been able to afford they could have bought as a public company and the
bottom line is that Dell will owe it’s gang of four bankers $15B tomorrow which
it did not owe them yesterday.
Sync share. For anyone. For everyone.
6 days ago
Having spent some time speaking to customers, partners
and distributors across Europe I wasn’t surprised by the… cautious... approach
Europeans have to sync & share. It’s not enough to have a data center ‘in
the region’, Europeans want that data center to be down the road. And if we can
show up and take a tour, grab a coffee and have a biscuit we’ll do that too.
That’s why the full ‘as a service’ sync & share offerings will do business
with a certain customers but will find others to be impenetrable. In this case
you’re not selling an idea, you’re trying to change a culture and while ideas
come and go culture lasts for generations. So what do you do to fit into the
culture?
3.
Information Playground – Global High-Tech Innovation
When Right is Wrong
7 days ago
In my recent post How to Get the Wrong Answer,
I stated that analytic correctness (e.g. the "right answer")
increases when large volumes of data are highly varied. Analytic
correctness also has a corollary statement: the right answer is wrong if it
takes too long too calculate. A good example of this corollary can be found in
high-tech security.
4.
Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast – featuring a group
of experts in identity management, encryption, privacy, policy, and enterprise
security standards.
“What’s your question?” – Next Generation Analysis in the
Compromise Landscape
1 day ago
Threat analysts, as a general rule, are often
concerned with the minutiae of the day-to-day threat landscape. Who was
hacked this week? Do we have malware involved for this incident? Do we
have indicators for the incident? What about exploits? Do we need
patches? This is all key information related to properly defending a
network, but often, taking a step back and looking at the environment
holistically PRIOR to the incident helps to understand where the gaps may be.
The Iris System: Tidying Up Under the Rug
2 days ago
Virtualization helps conceal hardware complexity, one
of its many benefits for programmers and administrators. But it’s also a rug
under which security and reliability concerns can be all too easily swept.
Here’s a simple example. Suppose that a file system replicates data across two
storage devices to prevent data loss in the advent of a drive crash. If these
storage devices are virtual, they can well reside on the same physical
hard drive. One physical drive crash, then, will wipe out the file system.
RSA Labs has a long-term research program that aims to restore to both service
providers and tenants the security visibility concealed by virtualization and
cloud migration.
The New OASIS PKCS 11 Technical Committee
2 days ago
As I mentioned in an earlier blog, RSA is
transitioning the PKCS #11 standards effort into OASIS. The call for participation
for the new OASIS PKCS 11 Technical Committee has now officially gone out from
OASIS leadership, describing the process for joining the TC. The new public page for the
PKCS 11 TC provides information regarding our first meeting on March 4th,
as well as the goals, charter and other information about the committee. If
you’re interested in cryptographic capabilities and cryptographic interfaces, I
hope you’ll consider joining the PKCS 11 TC.
Prevent and Predict Attacks
2 days ago
When it comes to defending our networks we have to be
right 100% of the time but a cybercriminal has to be right just once. We must
shift this balance if we are ever going to be in a position to truly protect
and defend our networks. In fact, defence is probably no longer appropriate
because it is not enough we need to be in a position to stop the attacks and
even predict attacks. Predict attacks you say? How?
The Hacks Get Hacked and Their Passwords Get Dumped
5 days ago
On January 30, the New York Times acknowledged that it
had been a victim of a security breach. The Times claims this was
the result of a long, targeted attack allegedly committed by attackers located
in China to gain access to corporate email and data. Now it’s also coming
out that the Wall Street Journal
and Washington Post
were also compromised in similar attacks for similar reasons.
Realizing all the Promises of Mobility
6 days ago
The SBIC has
produced a new report that is mobile centric called “Realizing the Mobile Enterprise.” The council
builds on data. In this case, it builds on a fascinating series of online
polls that show a rapid litmus-like test of the mobile landscape
and, in particular, the degree to which “the enterprise” (an interesting notion
in itself, but more on that later) and security are both embracing and
adjusting to all things mobile. Some interesting answers popped up…
The Big Data Security Analytics Era Is Here
7 days ago
My blog today reflects on newly published research
from Jon Oltsik
at ESG (from whom I borrowed the
title of this blog), which covers the collision of advanced threats, security
monitoring, SIEM, big data technologies and techniques, and organizational
security maturity. In the paper Jon clearly brings forward his argument –
with which I completely agree – that security threats have changed and thus the
tools used and approaches for defense need to change significantly.
5.
Big Data Transforms Business
RSA Leverages Big Data to Detect and Investigate Security
Threats
7 days ago
As cyber attacks become more advanced and damaging,
organizations are looking to integrate Big Data tools and techniques into their
security operations to optimize threat detection and investigation.
Organizations can no longer rely on traditional security systems that monitor
and analyze only a slice of information from a portion of their environment.
Nor can organizations depend on traditional perimeter or signature based
systems, as they have not been able to stop today’s more sophisticated
attackers.
6.
The Backup Window
– 360° view of backup and recovery
This Is Your Brain on Tape Backup
5 days ago
Is your old fashioned and unreliable tape based backup
infrastructure giving you serious headaches? Are your backups
extending further and further into production windows? Are you worried
what the auditors are going to say if they find out about those backup tapes
that got lost? There is a simple way to fix all of this. Replace your
old-fashioned tape-based backups with backups to deduplicated disk
storage. The results will amaze you and
your brain will be thrilled with all the benefits you will get. Let your brain
relax and focus on more important things.
7.
EMC IT Proven
– Leading our IT Transformation
EMC IT Takes a Holistic Approach to Optimizing Business
Capabilities
1 day ago
Planning our EMC IT strategy to meet the company’s future
business capability requirements is a lot like planning for the future growth
of a city. Road improvements, for example, need to link to traffic and
development patterns and not conflict with sewer or water line installation. As
EMC’s business has become more complex, EMC IT has been striving to work
closely with business units in a similarly holistic approach to map out what
capabilities they need and how IT can support them.
8.
Thought Feast
– The technology blog to feed your brain with industry trends and topics
IT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 3)
1 day ago
In the 3rd party of this series, it should
be understood that Lady Backup does not consider a backup an archive. As my
colleagues know, I will strongly argue with anyone who considers backup tapes
to be an archive. Now that you understand that, what are the main things you
should think about with an archiving solution?
Government ICT 2013 – Part 1
5 days ago
The Government ICT Conference 2013
in the QEII Conference Centre kicked off the event season with traditional
gusto and the key themes were focused on delivering change, supporting the
Government’s reform agenda and enabling the delivery of more efficient public
services. All worthy themes but the core challenge still seems to be how
can the public sector tackle some of the more intransigent issues that Chris
Chant identified in his ‘unacceptable IT is pervasive’
blog post in early 2011.
IT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 2)
7 days ago
Picking up from last week, Lady Backup asserts that there
is a key enabler in IT transformation that we haven’t paid enough attention to:
archiving. Archiving has a key value to play in lower your IT costs,
improving your user experience and managing risk for your organization.
Let’s look at the 3 key benefits of archiving in more detail: Benefit 1:
Archiving increases operational efficiency. Benefit 2: Archiving improves end
user productivity. Benefit 3: Archiving consistently manages retention
policies.
9.
InFocus
– EMC Global Services Blog
Dear EMC Customers: Please Don’t Thank us for Asking
1 day ago
In his free ebook, The 6 Laws Of Customer
Experience: The Fundamental Truths That Define How Organizations Treat
Customers, Bruce Temkin describes six laws of customer
experience. Law #1, Every Action Creates a Personal Reaction,
highlights the importance of personally understanding your customers. He
describes several implications of this law, but I wanted to specifically touch
on a couple of them in this post. I also recommend taking a look at the details
of all six laws.
The Not-So-Dreaded Annual Review: A Checklist for Data Success
2 days ago
At the beginning of every year, I like to take
inventory of everything we are doing with our workforce-generated data. Below
is a checklist and underlying questions I think everyone who relies on data-driven decision-making
should review on an annual basis. Hopefully you stuck to your data resolutions last
year and are already in good shape! I’m looking at my world on the IT services
side (specifically customer service and professional services) but I feel much
of this applies to almost any area.
Transforming IT to a Service Broker
2 days ago
Transformation is a high priority for many IT
organizations these days, but it’s important to remember the ultimate purpose
for transformation is to deliver value to the business. This means that
IT needs to focus on what the business needs, not just on what will make IT
more efficient and cost-effective. What the business needs is often measured in
terms of increased revenue by faster time to market with new products and
services.
Moving Technology with the Times
6 days ago
Time flies ….. Did we just ring in the New Year? The
whole month of January flew by in a blink of the eye. In today’s
high-speed everything, hyper-accelerated world, time is ever more compressed,
especially with all things technology. We are seeing the continuing
momentum behind social, mobile and analytics, which are in play at every major
industry sector. And all the while, financial service firms are trying to
figure out how to catch up, to keep up, and to take the lead.
Capacity Planning for your Virtual Data Center and Cloud – Part
2
7 days ago
In this 2nd part of my blog on capacity planning,
we shall look at the steps to implementing Capacity Management for your Virtual
Data Center and Cloud. Many IT organizations have used virtualization and cloud
to paint a visionary picture of agile, on-demand and cost-efficient IT that
will meet changing business requirements for their business users. While this
is possible, many IT organizations by now should have realized that at the
heart of this capability is capacity management.
10.
Managed View
– From Silos to Services
Platform-As-A-Service For The Enterprise
5 days ago
Is platform-as-a-service (PaaS)
relevant to the enterprise? Infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) offers small organizations compute, network, and storage resources on
par with the IT capabilities afforded previously to only larger,
well-capitalized organizations. Now, PaaS has the potential of taking this IT
on-demand concept a step further with applications and services. IaaS was first
popularized by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
11.
Virtual Geek
– an insider's perspective, technical tips n' tricks in the era of the VMware
Revolution
EMC Partners - our internal kickoff content - OPEN FOR YOU!
5 days ago
Those of you that know me, know that I truly,
fundamentally believe in the power of openness and transparency. You also
know that I’m a fan of a simple rule, a simple axiom that leads to good
partnering: “Anything that
is available for EMC internally, I think should be open to our EMC Velocity
Partners”. I’m not claiming I’m Gandhi here :-)
This statement to me is a statement of the blindingly obvious. 2012
was a year of a lot of learning for me – the power of the bully pulpit when you
are a leader is you CANNOT reach down and affect directly, but you can set
tone, and guide direction – and man, it can move a lot.
12.
EMC Consulting Blogs
Big Data Storymap
6 days ago
Bill Schmarzo created this "Big Data
Storymap" which clients can use to see where they are in Big Data
journey. Instead of just posting blog with regular static image, we
created a new functionality and integrated Prezi interactive tool , so readers
can literally scroll thru the story map (zoom in and out) and also click on
specific links within storymap that take them to EMC collateral, other
blogs, etc.
Agile - Business Practice or Business Procedure
7 days ago
I have been asked at least once whether I would
describe Scrum as a process. My answer was something like “it’s a framework” a
“very high-level process” but I don’t think that was helpful. It occurred to me
recently that a more helpful explanation of the distinction between Agile
processes and some other development processes would be to use the
definitions of Business Practices and Business Procedures.
Matt
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