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Microsoft's Scott Charney Calls For Disrupting Cybercrime Activities
It's not enough to build defenses against cybercriminals, the good guys have to put the bad guys out of business, according to Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, in a keynote address Tuesday morning at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco. "We are committed to collaborating with industry and governments worldwide to realize a safer, more trusted Internet through the creative disruption and prevention of cybercrime," says Charney. While focusing on security and privacy fundamentals like threat mitigation remains necessary, the industry needs to be more aggressive in blunting the efforts of cybercriminals.
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Architectures
CYA: Cover Your (Vendor) Agreements
Most applicable data privacy and security laws will hold your organization equally liable for a breach whether it was your fault or that of your third party vendor. Risks of data loss, data corruption and data theft are of paramount concern. Such risks are not limited to the organization's actions or omissions, but increasingly those of its vendors. When the worst happens, how do you manage the financial as well as data losses?
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- Data Disposition Must Be A Priority
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Reviews & Workshops
DLP Rolling Review: Wrap-up
In January of 2009, we launched a rolling review of enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions to see how well they tackle enterprise data security. Six months and six vendors later we've got interesting results and observations that will help you decide if DLP fits your risk management strategy, and if so, which vendors you should be talking to.
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Blogs
Issues With Automated Tiering
March 10, 2010 2:10 PM
Posted by George Crump
While the industry, myself included, has been busy extolling the virtues of automated tiering, it's important to understand that it's not a be-all-end-all for the storage manager. Certainly there is plenty to like but, there are a few caveats that you should be aware of. From a performance perspective most (if not all) automated tiering systems leverage SSD or RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. The upside of this, as we have discussed, is that it provides an automated way for storage managers to take advantage of SSD. The downside is that the rest of the environment has to be fast enough to take advantage of it. Putting a really fast drive at the end of a wire is not necessarily going to deliver better performance.
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The Types Of Automated Tiering
March 9, 2010 8:00 AM
Posted by George Crump
Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data between tiers of storage, has several methods of delivery. There is some disagreement as to which is the "real" automated tiering. I'm not sure if from a storage manager's perspective it matters, but understanding the types of automated tiering will help you select the best method for your data center.
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IBM Bolsters The Case For Information Governance
March 3, 2010 9:26 AM
Posted by David Hill
IBM recently staged a coming of age party for information governance. Information governance is nothing new for the company, its latest announcement simply heightens its growing emphasis. IBM, along with some other vendors, is increasing the drumbeat for a very good reason: governance is critical to leveraging information as effectively as possible. Since many enterprises are still unclear on what information governance is--let alone its benefits and how to do it--putting an information governance strategy in place is not intuitively obvious. But before we discuss the subject more fully, a little history lesson is appropriate to put in context how we have come to the need for a formal information governance strategy and program.
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Automated Tiering: Cost Savings Or Performance Enhancer?
March 2, 2010 12:15 PM
Posted by George Crump
One of the questions that came up quite a bit in response to my last entry was whether or not Automated Tiering Systems (ATS) were designed to drive cost savings or to be a performance enhancers. In that entry, I took the stance that ATS is a performance enhancer, while some of the comments and emails suggested that it was a cost enhancer. The real answer is that it's what you make of it.
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How Hot Is Automated Tiering?
February 26, 2010 10:48 AM
Posted by George Crump
Last week, a CEO at a large storage manufacturer predicted that automated tiering, the process of moving data between different tiers or classes of storage, was over-hyped. The executive's comment quickly brought responses from other storage manufacturers claiming the contrary. Most vendors position automated tiering as a "must have," and as is often the case with this type of topic, a digital food fight broke out.
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The Services Of Storage Replacement
February 24, 2010 10:09 AM
Posted by George Crump
Last year, I was working with a user through the process of a storage replacement. They basically had run up against a wall with their current storage, and our team was helping them through the selection process. One of the areas that simply amazed me was how ill-prepared some of the vendors were when it came to guiding the customer through the replacement. They had about 30TBs of storage on the old platform and none of the initial proposals gave any consideration to guiding the customer through the migration process.
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