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Ahead in the Clouds

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

October 2017

Halloween horrors: When a datacentre migration takes a dark turn
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 30 Oct 2017

In this guest post, Drew Nielsen, chief trust officer at cloud-based backup provider Druva, shares a scary and hairy tale about how shortfalls in any company's upkeep and maintenance schedule can ...

Discussing DevOps: A toast to the T-shaped engineers
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 17 Oct 2017

In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led ...

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Hybrid care is healthcare's future

Hybrid care is neither digital nor physical, neither in-office nor at home. Instead, it's a little of everything, and one health ...

Replacing vs. maintaining legacy systems

As CIOs embrace more digital technologies, it's important that they determine the current status of their legacy systems and ...

Managing cybersecurity during the pandemic and in the new digital age

Roota Almeida, CISO at Delta Dental of New Jersey and Delta Dental of Connecticut, talks about the cybersecurity threats she's ...

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The wide web of nation-state hackers attacking the US

Cybersecurity experts weigh in on what it means to be a nation-state hacker, as well as the activities and motivations of the '...

6 SSH best practices to protect networks from attacks

SSH is essential, but default installations can be costly. Auditing and key management are among critical SSH best practices to ...

Companies must train their SOC teams well to prevent breaches

SOC teams can have all the latest and greatest cybersecurity tools, but unless they have the proper training, it won't be enough ...

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Network capacity planning best practices for return to office

As workers grow comfortable enough to return to the office, network teams will need to plan in advance to make sure the network ...

Aruba product integrations advance its SASE strategy

Aruba's latest SASE-related integrations involve the Silver Peak-based SD-WAN, Threat Defense and the ClearPass Policy Manager. ...

Wi-Fi 6 rollout requires careful review of network devices

Wi-Fi 6 is just one part of the overall enterprise network. Organizations need to evaluate several network components to ensure a...

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Nvidia SDK simulates quantum computing circuits on GPU systems

Nvidia edged its way into the quantum computing market with an SDK that simulates quantum circuits by adding horsepower to ...

Programmable processor technology for next-gen data centers

The right processing technology can benefit your data center. Learn about advancements in CPU technologies, recent vendor ...

Data processing units accelerate infrastructure performance

DPUs often run on networking packets to move information in the data center, instead of supporting processing workflows. Get an ...

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Era Software raises $15.25M for enterprise data management

Startup that began as the EraDB time series database is advancing its efforts with new funding and a cloud service for its ...

Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases

Graph DB vendor Dgraph Labs is expanding its AWS cloud footprint with new regions and adding change data capture capabilities in ...

Pandemic triggered data security movement to DBaaS

Database-as-a-service technology has aided enterprises tasked with keeping data secure with IT professionals working from home ...