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Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Data Protection; a Discussion with Dr. John Meyers
Cybersecurity is a concern for employees at all levels of organizations today. Ransomware is a new type of malware that has exploded on the market. The US Government estimates that 4,000 attacks occur every day while IBM estimates that the attacks increased 6,000% in 2016.
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2017 DevOps Trends: My 6 Favorite Articles
DevOps promises to improve application development agility, efficiency and reliability; yet, the concept is only about 9 years old. New technologies are frequently introduced that promise significant improvements in the development process, and so each year, it is valuable where DevOps is going. In this article, I will highlight six posts that prognosticate on 2017 trends.
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Providing Masked Data for Devops
Time and storage always seem to be in short supply when your business relies on multi-terabyte databases. An outage can put your business on hold for days, and provisioning up-to-date copies for development and test can be an enormous challenge. Actifio solves these challenges in spectacular fashion. Even huge databases can be online in minutes, in production, or in multiple development and test environments.
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Accelerating Jury Trials with Instant Access to Videos
According to UT Austin’s website, Police officers with University of Texas at Austin will now be equipped with portable video cameras that will be worn in front of their uniforms. The cameras will record official interactions only such as responding to emergency calls or making an arrest. The digital recordings will be retained for 90 days for routine content and for one year or longer if related to a specific criminal investigation. The purpose of these videos is manyfold such as deterring somebody from taking an irrational action while dealing with officers or using the videos as proof when needed in a trial.
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7 Inevitable Problems with Legacy Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies
Businesses today are using data as a leverage point to increase revenue and profits. Improvements in data analytics now allows companies to bring innovative products and services to current and new markets, improve operations or simply making better decisions based on better information. This data is literally the heartbeat of businesses today and companies go to great lengths (and expenses) to protect that data from loss and or corruption.
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Implementing Test Data Management for DevOps: 5 Consideration Points
The new buzzword for DevOps is “continuous.” We have continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous obsolescence and for many developers, continuous consumption of Five Hour Energy. Yes, the world of DevOps has radically changed development as we know it and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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What it Takes for a Solution to Scale with Enterprise Applications
The last 5 years of IT evolution has forced enterprises to re-think their corporate strategy to stay relevant and competitive. These enterprises are looking to become lean so they can focus on their core business while outsourcing the rest. Applications and the associated data, the crown jewels of an enterprise are meanwhile anchored in legacy data-center environments.
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The New Face of Backup Administrators
I have seen a new pattern emerge with Actifio customers. The Actifio Administrators may have the backup administrator job function, but they are seen as enterprise architects by their organization. Various teams such as DevOps, Analytics, Security and Support are increasingly relying on Actifio administrators to consume Enterprise Data-as-a-Service (EDaaS).
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Immutability, a Security Benefit of Enterprise Data-as-a-Service
Starting two weeks ago with the blog of our CEO, Ash Ashutosh, we have witnessed next evolutionary step in the progression of copy data management into Enterprise Data-as- a-Service (EDaaS). Last week in this forum, our own David Chang initiated a fascinating discussion about the security benefits EDaaS can bring to an enterprise. As security is such an important and hot topic across so many industries, this will be one of a few blogs on security.
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