The Sky Isn't Falling in IT Security, as Some Might Suggest
The long-held saying that "if it bleeds, it leads" holds true for information security reporting, but it really shouldn't. Reporting on cyber-security can be a somewhat depressing endeavor — given the seemingly endless onslaught of exploits, breaches and statistics that preach doom and gloom on a daily basis. The truth, however, is that modern cyber-security is not all darkness. Read More...
Storage Spending Heads Into the Clouds
Computerworld | Stephen Lawson
Sales are growing fastest for companies that ship generic storage hardware to big cloud providers, IDC says. The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage. Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC. Read More...
2015 Reality Check: IT Spending, Confidence on an Upswing
Computerworld | Beth Stackpole
The optimism buoying IT at the start of 2015 appears to be sticking around. A mid-year check-in reveals better-than-expected budget increases and tighter alignment with the business, putting IT in the driver's seat to respond to organizations' escalating technology needs. In its 2015 mid-year reality check survey, TEKsystems found IT departments moving forward with an array of projects without concern about losing funding or other obstacles that might previously have put efforts on hold. Read More...
Hybrids Emerging as a Permanent Fixture in the Cloud
IT Business Edge | Arthur Cole
The enterprise is heavily invested in legacy infrastructure but is also rapidly ramping up its cloud, both at home in the data center and on third-party resources. Quite naturally, this points to the hybrid cloud as the only logical way to leverage both of these investments to their full potential. Read More...
Converged or Hyperconverged? Demystifying Converged Infrastructure
Network Computing | Christine Cignoli
Converged infrastructure (CI) has become one of the handful of next big things changing data centers dramatically. With CI, vendors bundle typical computing components -- storage, compute, hypervisor and networking -- into prepackaged data center building blocks, allowing for easy implementation and scalability. Read More...
