Open Source Fact and Fiction
Alan Shimel is co-founder and Managing Partner at The CISO Group, which offers security consulting and PCI compliance management for the payment card industry. He’s an often-cited personality in the technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events.
In IT security, continuous is the new black
In anticipation of RSA 2015, let's talk about the trend to maintain continuous IT security.
How Security-as-a-Service can save an organization millions
A new study makes a case for Security-as-a-Service.
Encryption: The security market's newest frontier
The market gathers behind encryption to safeguard data from breaches.
What benefits are driving DevOps adoption?
CA survey shows 88% of enterprises either have or expect to adopt DevOps.
How Docker built a whale from a single container
News from Dockercon Europe highlights expanding complexity of the Docker infrastructure.
CA's secret recipe: An organic engineering team
At CA World, CA's executives spoke about the company's emphasis on developing in-house engineering skills.
Cloud computing's not-so-secret mission
IT-as-a-Service is the real game changer in cloud computing.
How high-performing IT departments affect their companies' bottom line
Survey confirms tie between high-functioning IT and profitability.
DevOps isn't viable for enterprise? Tell that to IBM
There has been quite a bit of controversy lately over an article in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not DevOps was viable for enterprises. After spending a few days here in Orlando at the IBM Innovate conference, I can tell...
Silly rabbit, there's no such thing as DevOps in a box
Yesterday out in Boulder, Colorado, I hosted the first Camp DevOps held in partnership with Glue Conference 2014 (Glue is today if you are in the Denver/Boulder area). It was a great conference with a whole bunch of great sessions on...
The day the AV died
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck ~ Don McLean, American Pie With a pink carnation and a pickup truck But I knew I was out of luck The day the music diedSeems like everyone is all a-twitter (see what I did there) about the SVP...
Security admins and executives: We hardly talk anymore
Ponemon-Firemon survey finds communication an issue.
Masergy adds MSSP to its lineup
I first became aware of Masergy back in the early part of the last decade. Since that time they have grown into a network services powerhouse offering a wide range of network services to a global enterprise clientele. Their...
JumpCloud just made cron obsolete
For just about as long as I have been in technology, when I spoke to engineers about having a specific task run on schedule I was told that we could "run a cron job" to make it happen. Over the years I realized that sys admins...
Microsoft Office vs Google Docs: The Fat Lady hasn't sung yet
I was reading ComputerWorld's Preston Gralla's article on Microsoft Office whipping Google Docs. I just don't see it. While I agree that you can't compare the feature set of power tools that MS Office gives you compared to the...
MongoDB 2.6 - NoSQL all grown up
NoSQL databases have been bursting into the market for a few years now. However, many DBAs still winked and smiled when discussing NoSQL, the way an older cousin looks down on a younger relative. Cute and sassy, but really if you...
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