Mark Albertson
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Hackers are now designing attacks that move at machine speed, yet security defenses are only as good as the humans who monitor them to repel breaches. Care to wager on who’s going to come out ahead? The cybersecurity arms race has reached …
Moving everything to cloud? It still needs management
When dcVAST Inc. was founded in 1989, the on-premises data center was king. There was no Amazon.com Inc., no Google LLC and a cloud was something that provided relief from the sun on a hot summer day. Fast forward to 2017, and …
In the multicloud world, IT also means ‘infrastructure’ technology
If there’s a challenge in today’s data management universe, it’s finding a technology solution that can work effectively across multiple clouds, such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. This is becoming more important as enterprise information technology expands to …
From GDPR to workplace diversity: Inclusive approach, not scare tactics, works best, says Veritas
Scary sells. That’s often the approach used by many companies when customers have to deal with new laws or regulations where the penalty for non-compliance could be significant. And there may be nothing scarier right now in the data governance arena than …
Data storage evolves to focus on access, management and insights
It was not that long ago when information technology systems managers had a quandary: where to store all the corporate data they possessed without breaking departmental budgets for the year. Today, where to store information is no longer the issue, as costs …
GDPR is coming: Is it a costly burden or marketing opportunity?
The financial penalties for non-compliance are significant. The requirement to know where all data is kept and be able to delete it when directed is non-negotiable. And supervisory authorities in Europe can initiate audits and suspend data transfers any time. The realities …
This little Dell company aims to change software coding forever
When Dell Inc. sold off its software division in 2016 prior to the merger with EMC Corp., the only company it kept was a small integration and data management company called Boomi Inc. Last March, the renamed Dell Boomi acquired an even smaller …
No more need for ‘dumb’ storage or costly analytics, says Veritas exec
Millions of data points from smartwatches and fitness trackers generate tremendous amounts of digital records every second, and most of this information goes right into object storage servers, where it’s organized more flexibly than traditional hierarchal methods. Bundled along with metadata and a unique identifier, …
PwC’s phones are ringing as clock ticks toward GDPR deadline
When PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, surveyed legal and technology executives from major global firms earlier this year, it found that nearly all (92 percent) considered compliance with new European regulations governing data privacy to be the number one priority on the data management and …
HPE leverages Nimble acquisition for more than just storage
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s acquisition of flash array company Nimble Storage in April was like reaching into a bowl of candy and pulling out three treats instead of only one. For $1.2 billion, HPE added all-flash and hybrid flash/disk array lines, the …