Recently I was invited to participate as a delegate at Tech Field Day 16 in Austin, Texas, where we visited with Forcepoint. Forcepoint is a company with a combined portfolio that includes user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA). UEBA’s primary focus is determining what is normal for a user and then deciding if a given …
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There are many ways to define scale. There is scale related to business, there is scale related to IT, and there is scale related to business functions. Actually, when you get right down to it, there are a number of ways to define scale. It depends entirely on your point of view. Given this, there …
It is now time for us to look over the past year and put together our “best of” compilations. However, I want to change that around and look at the best of 2018. Yes, next year. Pulling out my crystal ball, I see there is quite a bit to look forward to. 2017 was a …
As we hear more about VMware, AWS, and IBM, a new story emerges. VMware is talking about cross-cloud management. VMware is also talking about cloud-native applications. VMware is also talking about how you go from the data center to the cloud. VMware is talking about how to transform into a hybrid cloud. It appears there is an …
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The IT industry is abstracting everything it can, from hardware, to networking, to storage and more. “Abstract and build an API, and the world becomes better” seems to be the motto. Abstraction has become the goal of many subsystems. Many people seem to believe that if you move everything to software, everything will be better—and that if you use …
When I was a small child, I used to enjoy watching a Japanese language program. Called Monkey, it was all about a disruptive monkey with a massive ego. The monkey was turned into immortal being that could shrink and grow and travel on a flying cloud. Punished by the heavens for its transgressions, it was traveling with a …
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