With all the excellent training available on television today, we are all now
well prepared to deal with the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Our failure as a
society lies, however, in our misunderstanding of the nature of the
cybersecurity challenge. This failure threatens us all and our survival will
depend on society’s ability to deal with the evolution and maturation of
the changing enterprise cybersecurity challenge.
If you’re completely oblivious to the living dead threat, a zombie
apocalypse refers to a widespread (usually global) rise of zombies hostile to
human life. The zombies will engage in a general assault on civilization
where victims may become zombies themselves. This causes the outbreak to
become an exponentially growing crisis. The spreading phenomenon swamps
normal military and law enforcement organizations, leading to the panicked
collapse of civili... (more)
Today data has replaced money as the global currency for trade.
“McKinsey estimates that about 75 percent of the value added by data flows
on the Internet accrues to “traditional” industries, especially via
increases in global growth, productivity, and employment. Furthermore, the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that
about 50 percent of all traded services are enabled by the technology sector,
including by cross-border data flows.”
As the global economy has become fully dependent on the transformative nature
of electronic data exchange, its p... (more)
It was late 2011 and Steven Donovan was comfortable working at SHI
International Corporation, a growing information technology firm, as a
personal computer break/fix technician. His company had been growing quickly
from a $1 million "software-only" regional re-seller into eventually becoming
a $6 billion global provider of information technology products and services.
At that time, cloud computing was just starting to explode onto the
information technology scene. Although Amazon Web Services had been offering
its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) since 2006, browser-based enterprise
... (more)
Enterprises must rethink network management in the cloud computing world.
This new reality is driven by the rise of software defined networking, the
virtualization of everything and a business imperative to create and deploy
even newer information delivery models. With the entire infrastructure stack
now fully programmable, the need to integrate the network with cloud compute
services is essential. Another important environmental change is that both
servers and applications have joined data with respect to mobility. This
leads to an increased need to categorize those assets and a... (more)
(This post first appeared in IBM's Point B and Beyond)
The definition of DevOps emphasizes collaboration and communication between
software developers and other IT professionals while automating the software
delivery and infrastructure change process. While agile software development
and the use of automated infrastructure configuration tools stand proudly in
the DevOps spotlight, little has been said about the actual infrastructure
that modern tools such as Puppet and Chef automate.
DevOps in Hybrid IT Environments
Much has been written about Chaos Monkey, a tool that ensures indi... (more)
Cognitive Business: When Cloud and Cognitive Computing Merge
Cloud computing has taken over the business world! With almost maniacal
focus, single proprietors and Board Directors of the world's largest
conglomerates see this new model as a "must do". This rapid shift is, in
fact, accelerating. As Jeff Bertolucci observes in "The Shift to Cloud
Services Is Happening Faster Than Expected":
"According to the sixth annual Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey,
which examines the big-picture trends shaping IT infrastructure delivery and
strategy, the move to cloud services is a... (more)
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