Is the Network Part of Your Data Backup Strategy?
Make sure to include the network in your data protection planning.
ROI is not a cybersecurity concept
In the cybersecurity community, much time is spent trying to speak the language of business, in order to communicate to business leaders our problems. One way we do this is trying to adapt the concept of "return on investment" or "ROI" to explain why they need to spend more money. Stop doing this. It's nonsense. ROI is a concept pushed by vendors in order to justify why you should pay money for their snake oil security products. Don't play the vendor's game.The correct concept is simply "risk analysis". Here's how it works.
List out all the risks. For each risk, calculate:
- How often it occurs.
- How much damage it does.
- How to mitigate it.
- How effective the mitigation is (reduces chance and/or cost).
- How much the mitigation costs.
If you have risk of something that'll happen once-per-day on average, costing $1000 each time, then a mitigation costing $500/day that reduces likelihood to once-per-week is a clear win for investment.
Now, ROI should in theory fit directly into this model. If you are paying $500/day to reduce that risk, I could use ROI to show you hypothetical products that will ...
- ...reduce the remaining risk to once-per-month for an additional $10/day.
- ... Continue reading
Inside View: Tokyo Tech’s Massive Tsubame 3 Supercomputer
Professor Satoshi Matsuoka, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) researches and designs large scale supercomputers and similar infrastructures. More recently, he has worked on the convergence of Big Data, machine/deep learning, and AI with traditional HPC, as well as investigating the Post-Moore Technologies towards 2025.
He has designed supercomputers for years and has collaborated on projects involving basic elements for the current and more importantly future Exascale systems. I talked with him recently about his work with the Tsubame supercomputers at Tokyo Tech. This is the first in a two-part article. For background on the Tsubame 3 system …
Inside View: Tokyo Tech’s Massive Tsubame 3 Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hyperconvergence Market In Flux
Cisco-Springpath deal induces yawns as hyperconverged infrastructure space continues to shake out.
6 Questions to Ask Your SD-WAN Vendor
Cut through the marketing hype with these questions for potential suppliers.
Worth Reading: Transitioning to a single root
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Versa Cinches Deal with Verizon for Software-Defined Branch
Versa sees uptick now that Viptela belongs to Cisco.
An Early Look at Baidu’s Custom AI and Analytics Processor
In the U.S. it is easy to focus on our native hyperscale companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.) and how they design and deploy infrastructure at scale.
But as our regular readers understand well, the equivalent to Google in China, Baidu, has been at the bleeding edge with chips, systems, and software to feed its own cloud-delivered and research operations.
We’ve written much over the last few years about the company’s emphasis on streamlining deep learning processing, most notably with GPUs, but Baidu has a new processor up its sleeve called the XPU. For now, the device has just been demonstrated …
An Early Look at Baidu’s Custom AI and Analytics Processor was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Nokia-led 5G Monarch Project to Focus on Network Slicing
MoNArch is the second European coalition to focus on network slicing.
Enterprise Demand Drives Microsoft Container Support on Red Hat
Companies cite enterprise demand for easier container integration.
Cloud Data Management Startup Druva Scores $80M
“We’re not talking about IPO,” a Druva exec says.
Disaster Recovery with VMware NSX-V and Zerto
Note, this is a reposting of the blog that I initially posted here on humairahmed.com. In a prior blog, VMware NSX and SRM: Disaster Recovery Overview and Demo, I described and demoed how VMware NSX and SRM with vSphere Replication combined provide for an enhanced disaster recovery (DR) solution. SRM also provides additional integration with NSX when Storage Policy Protection Groups (SPPGs) are used by providing the ability to automate network mappings. One of the great things about the NSX-V platform, is it can be used with any DR orchestration tool that supports the VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisor. Some of the tools customers are using with NSX include VMware SRM, Dell EMC RP4VM, Zerto, and Veeam. As SRM was discussed and demonstrated in a prior blog, Zerto and NSX together is explained in more detail below. Continue reading
D-Link Brings Bare Metal Switches to Enterprise Applications
D-Line has already certified a Pluribus OS to run on the open hardware.
Wait, what happened to my choices?
This weekend, I experienced one of those moments that make me question the value of information technology. My trusty windows phone, for whatever reason, failed. Given I was traveling in less than 24 hours, I needed to find a replacement. So I traipsed to the local phone store, and was told “I’m sorry, we don’t sell windows phones. They aren’t popular enough.” So there I stood, like the shopper in the proverbial aisle of cereal, trying to choose which new phone to get.
After staring at all the different phones for a while, it dawned on me that the apparent variety is fake. I really only had two choices.
The first is the iPhone. The iPhone is a throwback to the late 1990’s, at least one generation behind current hardware, and with a user interface that falls into the “cute retro gamified Windows 3.11/Xerox Star” sort of thing. Getting anything done requires jumping through multiple hoops. There is no way to pin anything you use on a regular basis to the screen, no information available without entering an app, the icons are tiny candies, etc. Sorry Apple fanfolk, but Apple hasn’t innovated in at least 10 years in Continue reading
Illumio VP: You Shouldn’t Need a Security Ph.D. to Protect Workloads
New security platform features focus on visualization and security policy development.