In light of industry news and financials reported by industry leaders at the end of last year, all indicators are pointing toward a very strong outlook for the market as we adventure into the year 2018.
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Stages of AI
There are many folks who consider AI to be the end all of analytics. I could not agree more. However, are we at AI yet, or is there more to AI than we have today? Artificial intelligence has been a goal for decades. What has changed to make it potentially possible? How does it apply …
“I Want to Get Out of the Data Center Business”
CIOs everywhere are stating that they want to get out of the data center business and move to the cloud. Is this just a temporary, trendy shift or a long-term solution? Cloud providers such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Oracle are maturing their offerings and marketing their services as the optimal solution. While …
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Managing a Multicloud
There is no denying that the future of cloud is not just with a single provider, capable as Azure, AWS and the other public providers are. For true data protection, your information needs to be in three separate locations, and with the rise of data sovereignty, there is a need for data to be kept within …
Treasure Troves and Intel Speculative Execution
The January 3, 2018 Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcast covered two very important issues: the treasure troves used as bases for attacks and the Intel CPU speculative execution bug. The former allows people to access critical cloud and internal resources, while the later allows elevation of privileges to see and act upon data within the CPU …
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The Year That Was — 2017
Wrapping up 2017, it is time to think about what happened during the past year and start to make plans for the new year. On a personal note, I have seen a number of milestones: I uprooted my family and moved them 9,000 miles to Perth, Australia—and more importantly, celebrated thirty years of marriage. But …