Securing Mobile Data: What’s Your Plan?

As a business or technical leader, you know you need to protect your company in a rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. However, threats are not always obvious. As malware and attacks become more sophisticated over time, business decision makers must work with technical decision makers to navigate security threats in a mobile world. This blog series, […]

New Horizons, New Possibilities: Announcing Data Virtualization Day 2014

With Big Data, the Cloud and the Internet of Everything transforming our world, the possibilities are staggering.  And status quo means falling behind.  These truths drive Data Virtualization Day 2014’s theme: New Horizons, New Possibilities.   This year marks the fifth anniversary of Data Virtualization Day, the premier data virtualization industry event, where IT leaders […]

New blueprint for data center security

RATS in the Data Center, a recent blog post by Cisco’s Tom Hogue, highlighted the current threat landscape for data centers. Tom was referring to Remote Access Toolkits, not the disease-carrying vermin that likely started the plagues that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. However, the destructive effect of modern-day RATS can be devastating.. They […]

Data Abstraction: The Lingua Franca for Data Silos

Enterprises are seeking ways to improve their overall profitability, cut costs, reduce risk and more through better leverage of their data assets. Significant volumes of complex, diverse data spread across various technology and application silos make it difficult for organizations to achieve these business outcomes. To further complicate matters, there is a range of problems […]

2014 Cisco VNI Forecast: It’s not just about big numbers

Today, Cisco released the updated VNI Global IP Traffic and Service Adoption Forecasts, 2013 – 2018 (see media release). The key drivers of global IP traffic growth (network users, devices/connections, broadband speeds, and video consumption) continue to show increases that will create a greater global demand for IP network resources: By 2018, there will be […]