IT News: Operations, BI, Encryption, Server, Networks, HR, HPC, DR (288.5)
John J. McLaughlin
Editor-In-Chief, Board Member, Professional Services Engineer, Community leader
Volume 288, Issue 5: Mar 28th, 2022 — Apr 3rd, 2022
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With companies increasingly shifting most or all of their workloads to the cloud, the reasons for rolling your own server rack are dwindling - but still very compelling.
The cloud with all of its ease and convenience is slowly eclipsing the racks and racks of machines that defined it. There are many practical reasons driving this movement away from the data center as a hallmark of information technology. Cloud service providers continue to roll out amazing products and time-saving services that make it simple to stand up amazing code. The convenience is wonderful.
Change is an imminent part of business, through which companies grow and move towards success.
But when it comes to change, it is important to do it systematically. Unfortunately, even though most businesses plan to carry out more major change initiatives, half of these initiatives fail, while only 34% are seen as a clear success.
ODMs lead the way as public cloud nears 50% of data center hardware spend.
Public cloud providers are quickly becoming the biggest buyers of data center infrastructure equipment, as purchasing of hardware and software both rebounded sharply in 2021, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group.
Log management tools are useful for businesses to monitor their systems and networks, troubleshoot issues, and enhance security.
This is why tools such as Splunk and ELK Stack are popular.
These tools have simplified the collection, aggregation, storage, and analysis of large data volumes to detect issues and resolve them efficiently.
One of the biggest problems with customer service is that it's often difficult to track and manage customer interactions.
This is especially true when those interactions happen through email, which can quickly become overwhelming if not properly managed.
The editors at Solutions Review highlight what's changed since the last iteration of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms and provide an analysis of the new report.
Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Gartner defines the marketplace as enabling less technical users, including businesspeople to 'model, analyze, explore, share and manage data, and collaborate and share findings, enabled by IT and augmented by artificial intelligence (AI).
One of the quickest and most efficient ways of improving the day-to-day running of your business is to use data to gain insights
Given the range of data that you can track through various tools, there are numerous ways in which a business can improve and ultimately, save money.
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We're going to look at the best business intelligence platforms that allow businesses to do just that. They work by offering insights and even predictions based on past performances, which are key to running a successful operation.
These providers have recently been named major players in analytics and business intelligence platforms for 2022 by analyst house Gartner, Inc.
Analytics and business intelligence platforms come in a variety of shapes and sizes to meet the ever-changing needs of organizations and their increasingly complex environments.
These days nearly every enterprise wants to have predictive analytics capabilities to better understand their historical data.
This enterprise expectation corresponds with a growing interest in Big Data and artificial intelligence solutions.
Members of the Chartered Institute of IT, the professional body for technology professionals in the UK, warn against limiting end-to-end encryption
IT professionals have spoken out against a government-backed campaign to limit end-to-end encryption, arguing that it will not make the world safer and is likely to cause more harm than good.
Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines.
It is difficult to imagine how today's hyperscale datacenters would have developed without server virtualization hypervisors and their encore and sometimes add-on, software containers.
When Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion in March 2019, everyone spent a lot of time thinking about the synergies between the two companies and how networking was going to become an increasingly important part of the distributed systems that run HPC and AI workloads.
As far as we know, not every many people were thinking that the analog signaling circuits that Nvidia has created to link its GPUs to each other and to extend its systems were a strategic part of the deal.
Wi-Fi 6, which is based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, provides the capacity, efficiency, coverage, and performance required by users today in the most demanding Wi-Fi environments.
Wi-Fi users are demanding more efficient, reliable, and secure connectivity in 2022. The reason: Internet of Things (IoT) environments, including homes with dozens or more connected devices and industrial settings, continue to drive demand for high capacity, low latency Wi-Fi.
One in four employees lost their job in the last 12 months after making a mistake that compromised their company's security, according to a report from email security company Tessian.
While the number of employees who fell for phishing attacks only increased by 1% in the last 12 months, people were far more likely to fall for more advanced phishing attacks than they were in 2020.
The study found more half of employees (52%) said they fell for a phishing email because the attacker impersonated a senior executive at their company, up from 41% reported in 2020.
HR teams must keep security top of mind when hiring and onboarding employees and enforcing data privacy policies. Get advice on the procedures and mechanisms to do so.
"A company culture is defined by HR because they're responsible for hiring people," said Erdal Ozkaya, author of Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified.
From weather sensors and autonomous vehicles to electric grid monitoring and cloud gaming, the world's edge computing is getting increasingly complex - but the world of HPC hasn't necessarily caught up to these rapid innovations at the edge.
At a panel at Nvidia's virtual GTC22 ('HPC, AI, and the Edge'), five experts discussed how leading-edge HPC applications can benefit from deeper incorporation of AI and edge technologies.
Proper backup and DR at the edge requires an awareness of the specific challenges edge devices present, and appropriate plans and tooling to help ease management.
Disaster recovery at the edge doesn't need to be an impossible hurdle. Expand recovery and backup plans for edge devices and manage edge networks as they grow in order to protect your network and devices against unexpected disasters.
Each week IT News And Events (ITNE) selects 60-90 items from mainstream IT publications and publishes them on the website for “IT News and Events.” We also select press releases and blog posts from various mainstream IT vendors and event announcements of general interest to our audience of 45,000+ senior IT professionals.