Interesting article. Some of my favorite lines: Experts estimate that 2.5 exabytes – or 2.5 billion gigabytes – of data are now generated every day, and the world’s capacity to store that data is doubling every 40 months The Seattle-based company, with just over 900 employees and a market value of around $940 million. The U.S. government directly or indirectly …
Business Leaders Unaware of Cyber Threats?
Ignorance is no excuse — unless the folks approving your budget are unaware of the cyber threats that could cripple the business. These are the same threats that could be avoided and/or mitigated with help from the budget that you probably aren’t getting. It’s not scare tactics, it’s reality. Posted on theHRDirector.com. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, …
Cloud Predictions for 2014
Up and to the right. By Rebecca Merrett in CIO. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——— Where is cloud computing heading in 2014? Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to become one of the greatest head-to-head competitors for 2014, says Gartner’s Michael Warrilow Private and hybrid cloud models, IT departments acting as cloud brokers, more competition …
Planning to Fail? Just Say No to DIY DDoS Response
Companies that attempt to handle all of their IT infrastructure needs in-house may be doing themselves a disservice — especially when it comes to being on the receiving end of DDoS attacks. Lack of preparation and experience are two key contributing factors in the large amount of time it takes for companies to recover from a DDoS. Most don’t know …
Choose Your Cloud Provider with Care
Change can be painful — so do yourself a favor and choose a cloud provider who will still be around in a couple of years. Article by Patrick Thibodeau in InfoWorld. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——— One in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015 Acquisitions will be the leading cause of cloud …
Gartner: 20% of IT Will Be Spend-as-a-Service
Lower upfont cost. Faster deployment. Lower technology risk. More advantageous accounting (i.e., OpEx vs. CapEx). So I ask: why only 20% in 5 years? By David Weldon in FierceCIO summarizing a Gartner blog post. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- 20% of new IT spending will go to as-a-service solutions By the year 2018, 20 …
Infographic: DNS Attacks On the Rise
From a summary article by Fred Donovan in FierceITSecurity. —— Attacks against the domain name system are on the rise, with a 200 percent rise in DNS attacks in the last year, according to data from Prolexic. A few months ago, there was a rash of DNS hijacking attacks against customers of Network Solutions by a pro-Palestinian group, which redirected …
2014 Cloud Predictions from Forrester
Music to my ears: “Public cloud will be the default backbone for IT.” YES! Biggest surprise (for me): “Australia rises to the No. 2 public cloud computing market”. Who knew? How good are YOUR guesses? By David Weldon in FierceCIO and original article by James Straten of Forrester in ZDNet. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing …
Data Center Downtime: (Expensive) Downer
Enterprises that run their own data centers do so at great financial risk. Control has its costs — even above and beyond the hefty price of equipment, labor, infrastructure, power, maintenance, upgrades, spares, etc. Indeed, the average cost of data center downtime is $7,900 per minute. Ouch. Hope the uptime is worth it. If not, give AIS a call! Summary …
Infographic: What Happens After the Intrusion
I picked up the ThreatMetrix infographic below in a summary article by Fred Donovan in FierceITSecurity. It’s not rocket science — it’s just crime. http://www.fierceitsecurity.com/story/infographic-what-happens-after-data-breach-occurs/2013-12-10
