Just do it. No pain, no gain. Pay me now or pay me later. “We understand it can be painful to implement and enforce encryption but it’s less painful than a large breach costing millions of dollars.” Ouch, that hurts. Summary article by Susan D. Hall in FierceHealthIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– PHI …
Gartner: CIOs Feel Inadequate re: Job Demands
One’s trash is another’s treasure. That’s my take on the Gartner research below. Change brings opportunity — in spite of it pushing us well outside our comfort zone. Summary article by David Weldon in FierceCIO, original by Toby Wolpe in ZDNet. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Many CIOs feel inadequate, fearful of job demands …
IT Security Teams: Changing Stripes
For large firms with the resources to deploy a team of people focused on IT security, the members of said team are a changin’. No longer is security experience a strict requirement; indeed diversity of experience is valued — as long as an extremely high degree of specialization is part of the package. While such luxuries are rare for any …
Performance Matters for Cloud Adopters
The article below clearly states what we at AIS have seen to be the case with our public cloud customers. Performance matters. A LOT! The price / performance ratio for a reliable cloud service is what it’s all about. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Cloud Performance Challenges …
CISOs Make Bank — Especially If CEO Is Boss
What matter most is to whom a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) reports — the CEO or “anyone other than the CEO”. Who the boss is can make up to a 36% difference. Certifications don’t really move the needle (only up to 8.7%), but advanced degrees do (up to 35%). Thankfully, the infosec gender gap in pay (5.5%) is well …
BYOD Success Predictor
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device. One of the many great new buzzwords in the past year or so. Will it fly? Will it fail? It all depends on how it is treated: “Hold on loosely, but don’t let go; if you cling too tightly, you’re going to lose control” — .38 Special By Fred Donovan in FierceMobileIT. Emphasis in red …
Bringing Sexy Back to Disaster Recovery
Always be prepared. Failure to plan is planning to fail. There are those who have and those who will. So what’s your excuse for not having a Disaster Recovery plan in place — and exercising that plan periodically to ensure that you can recover as quickly as needed? Summary article by David Weldon in FierceCIO, original article by Jack Bailey …
Cloud Survey Yields Good, Bad News
The good news is that the primary objections to cloud adoption are consistent and well-known — and are being overcome. The bad news is that incumbent storage vendors are not as helpful as customers would like in adopting cloud storage. AIS can help with that. Summary article by David Weldon of FierceCIO, original blog post by Joy Burd of Avere …
IDC Predictions for 2014
IDC speaks. Article by Saroj Kar in CloudTimes. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– IDC 2014 Prediction: The Ten Technologies That Will Emerge in 2014 The International Data Corporation (IDC) has published the first in a series of industry and technology-specific predictions of information and telecommunications technology industry (ICT) for the coming year. IDC predictions …
GoT IoT?
Think about it: 2020 is only six years away. That’s the same amount of time that it will take many of today’s high school juniors to graduate from college. And even though 2020 sounds futuristic, the opportunities, challenges, and unintended consequences of what’s just over the horizon is closer than we think. Article by Saroj Kar in CloudTimes. Emphasis in …
