Author Archives: Alison Diana
Alison Diana
Managing editor of Enterprise Technology. I've been covering tech and business for many years, for publications such as InformationWeek, Baseline Magazine, and Florida Today. A native Brit and longtime Yankees fan, I live with my husband, daughter, and two cats on the Space Coast in Florida.
Summer School: MOOCs for Technologists
May 22nd, 2015
Summer means the end of class for many youngsters, but it's an ideal time for HPC and IT professionals to take advantage of free and low-cost online educational programs that can advance their organizations and their careers. Organizations want ...
Cloud Hopping? How to Make a Smooth Transition
May 21st, 2015
Cloud hopping is becoming the new norm in the enterprise market. As IT spending continues to grow, enterprise buyers shop around for turnkey solutions that satisfy their needs for file sharing and storage. As the competition between cloud providers stiffens, ...
New Unisys ClearPath System Outperforms Mainframe Offerings
May 20th, 2015
Unisys completed its decade-long transition of two product lines to an all-Intel platform with today's introduction of the ClearPath Dorado 8300 Series, its most powerful system to date and one the company says outperforms its mainframe offerings. The development ...
AWS Earnings Validate Hybrid IT’s Staying Power
May 19th, 2015
When Amazon revealed its much-conjectured earnings and growth for its public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), it disclosed some surprising information in its quarterly earnings report. Indeed, AWS pulled in a significant profit, boasting a 16.9 percent operating margin ...
Social Engineering Targets Weakest Security Link: Employees
May 19th, 2015
Without ongoing employee training, an enterprise's expensive security infrastructure investment means little. But very few corporations protect themselves from the growing threat of social engineering. Today only 7 percent of American organizations do phishing education, said Chris Hadnagy, CEO ...
Best Practices for Intelligence-Based Storage Management
May 18th, 2015
Data is the most valuable asset for any company in any industry today, yet management of data is often reactive, under-funded and – frankly – haphazard. File data tends to be the highest growth and least managed category of ...
Cloud, Big Data Take Center Stage at Enterprise HPC
May 15th, 2015
Their work environments spanned industries from aerospace and defense to pharmaceuticals, retail, and government, but Enterprise HPC attendees have many challenges, opportunities, and concerns in common. Often working far removed from IT oversight or expertise, HPC implementations typically fall under ...
Bracket Puts Security Controls in Enterprise Hands
May 13th, 2015
To further promote corporate adoption of public cloud, Bracket Computing this week added to its software-based Bracket Computing cells architecture a security suite whose controls never leave enterprise customers' hands. Public cloud adoption is expected to soar, reaching $191 billion in ...
Energy Exec: Cloud Services Not Like Datacenters
May 12th, 2015
Simply eliminating the datacenter, embracing SaaS, and moving to cloud will not necessarily transform a company. That, at least, was the case for DrillingInfo, which morphed from an online permit and completion mapping-database company into a fast-growing global production ...
Who’s Winning the SSD Race? Ask the Patents
May 8th, 2015
Traditional spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) have dominated datacenters since their inception, primarily due to lower upfront cost per gigabytes ($/GB) and the lack of other feasible storage options. This has begun to change in the last decade, since ...
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