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Cloud, AI & your thermostat: Meet the DERs electric grid of the future
Distributed energy resources, or DERs, will help solve the global energy shortage in coming years. Defined as small-scale units of local generation connected to the grid at the distribution level, DERs have the potential to reduce the harmful effects of climate change and pollution from fossil fuels. These resources can also help businesses and households ...
Pros tune out cloud-on-prem dogfight, reveal ways to win in hybrid
Many now are telling us that, though all cloud may be cooler, hybrid is here to stay. But why? And how does a company strike the right balance? We hear so much conflicting chatter about cloud vs. on-premises — pros and cons regarding price, security, etc. Here’s a list of nitty-gritty tips for the confused ...
How network visibility is empowering IT security and more
For decades, the phrase “The network is the business” has echoed around the industry. Today, it’s common to say that data is now the center of business. And it may be so. But if the best route to data — for visibility, monitoring, security, etc. — is via the network, then security is still a high ...
Hospitals combat rising denial-of-service attacks with network triage
Overworked hospitals badly need to keep services running with COVID-19 cases surging — and that’s making them a prime target for cybercriminals. They now face a very troubling increase in attempts at extortion through ransomware denial-of-service attacks. To combat them, some are turning to network-monitoring software to quickly investigate disruptions and restore service. Among the most heavily ...
AI offers a new kind of IT management for cloud/SaaS service spree
Nowadays, cloud and software-as-a-service buying sprees are giving companies more IT to manage than ever. A little help from artificial intelligence might help keep services from a budget-draining, time-consuming, confusing mutiny against users. Consider the overwhelming service catalogs of cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. catering to customers building modern applications. The number of ...
Compliance as code feeds public-sector need for cloud speed, sans jitters
Public-sector organizations are moving to cloud for speed and agility just like everyone else. But will their notoriously time-consuming compliance processes defeat the purpose? To bring regulation up to cloud speed, some are building compliance as code right into cloud services. Government organizations have unique needs, but many adhere to certain basic compliance requirements, according to Tres ...
The best tech for business in digital-first, all-remote times
When COVID-19 hit, countless companies were ill-prepared to adjust to the changes it brought. As many countries face a rising tide of new coronavirus cases, we can try to apply what we’ve learned so far about what makes remote, digital-first business successful. Winning technology tools to look for should include these features: data integration, low ...
Containers could find easy way into enterprises through Rancher, NetApp deal
Where can one go to escape the hype over containers? Enterprises, at least for the moment. Considering containers’ rep as the panacea for everything from multicloud to agile DevOps, enterprise adoption remains lower than one would expect. Will a meeting and mingling of containers and more traditional data-center IT speed up adoption? Companies know the ...
Columbia University teaches Python coding to job-seeking ex-prisoners
Each year in the United States, 650,000 individuals are released from state and federal prisons. Their convictions drastically lower their chances of being hired when they try to enter or reenter the workforce. A program at Columbia University aims to address this by teaching formerly incarcerated students in-demand programming skills. “When people come home from ...
Shoehorning old tech onto new data privacy laws? Try on ‘discovery in-depth’
The ill-preparedness of a lot of companies to comply with recent data-privacy laws suggests a number of culprits. Perhaps the legislation was overdue, or companies have been lazy, or there’s a disconnect between lawmakers and businesses. It may also be that data-discovery technology needs an upgrade already. The last view is the one reached by ...