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Tom Gillis co-founded Bracket Computing with the goal of delivering enterprise computing driven by business needs, not hardware limitations. Prior to founding Bracket, Tom was vice president and general manager of Cisco's security technology group, leading business units responsible for Cisco's entire network and content security product portfolio.
Prior to Cisco, Tom was vice president of marketing and part of the founding team at IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007 for $830 million. He also previously served as vice president and general manager of media at IBEAM Broadcasting, which went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange in 2000. He has held leadership roles at Silicon Graphics, the Boston Consulting Group and Raytheon. Tom holds a BSEE from Tufts, an MSEE from Northwestern and an MBA from Harvard. His Forbes blog is widely followed by CIOs and global IT professionals.
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Crypto backdoors will be nailed shut
As we move to a world of hybrid data centers that span both private and public clouds, encryption will become increasingly ubiquitous and important. While the physical control of infrastructure becomes less relevant, the logical...
Complexity is the enemy of security
Creating a single, unified security plane that can span multiple hybrid clouds is one of the more interesting research areas in cloud security, and will be increasingly relevant in the next few years. A single security plane is the...
Encryption is the foundation of the new data center
As workloads in the corporate data center begin to migrate to the public cloud, the need to encrypt data in motion and at rest becomes foundational.