The latest new new thing getting buzz is IoT, the Internet of Things. What is it? What will it do? Who’s winning? Is it good? Read below to find the answers — and even more questions. Article by Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Explained: The ABCs of the Internet of …
Ambitious Projects: World’s Largest Data Center
Illustrated aerial view of Range International Information Hub (rangeidc.com) With construction well underway, the Range International Information Hub, located in Langfang, China, is projected to be 6.3 million square feet, covering a land area of 331 acres. When it is completed, this data center will be nearly the same size as the Pentagon and offer an infrastructure unlike any other …
Do Telcos Speak Data Center? Well, um… no
Just because you’re big doesn’t mean that you can easily “own” an adjacent market. Especially if your DNA screams “slow and manual — and formerly a monopoly”. Article by Elra Hayward in Datacenter Dynamics. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Do telcos understand the data center business? There’s something of a land grab going on …
Rogue IT: Life in the Fast Lane
If you can’t beat ’em, then join ’em. Article by David Fowler in InformationWeek. Emphasis in red added be me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Rogue IT Driven By Need For Speed We’ve lost control to business users before. But this time, the thing that initiated our pain (the cloud) may also be the cure. Over the last 35 years …
Spam: Now You Know
Robots may or may not have composed this post. Article by Finn Brunton in Counterpunch. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —— A Short History of Spam Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and …
Moss Adams Article on Heartbleed
The article below was published by Moss Adams. Protecting Yourself and Your Organization from Heartbleed by Francis Tam, Partner, and Kevin Villanueva, Senior Manager, IT Auditing & Consulting Practice The Heartbleed bug is a vulnerability found in the OpenSSL cryptographic software library that could allow the theft of normally encrypted information, such as user names and passwords. OpenSSL is an …
Is Technology Outpacing Your Talent?
It’s no surprise, really, that the IT world is moving exponentially faster by the day. At the rate things are going, it’s nearly impossible for IT administrators to stay on top of technology changes while also doing their day jobs of running networks, coaching users, protecting data, and prepping for tomorrow’s expanding to-do list. Admins are playing catch-up in an …
9 Tell-Tale Signs of an IT Administrator
It takes a special person to be an IT Admin, it really does. These guys (and sometimes girls) are sorely needed within a company and they have a style that’s uniquely all their own. So, what are some dead giveaways for identifying these techie geniuses? If a majority of the following criteria is met, you may in fact be an …
IoT Will Cause the Sky to Fall
The Internet of Things: this changes everything. We’ll need more storage. More bandwidth. More security. More processing power. This changes nothing. Summary article by Fred Donovan in FierceMobileIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Internet of Things threatens to overwhelm data centers, open security holes The Internet of Things will overtax data centers and open …
Identity Theft Is Consumers’ Top Complaint
This is the 14th year in a row in which Identity Theft is consumers’ number one concern reported to the Federal Trade Commission. Be careful about what you click! Summary article by David Weldon in FierceCIO, original article by Michael Cooney in Network World. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Identity theft still top consumer …
