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.
Federal State of Cyber Insecurity: New Day, New Breach?
June 5th, 2015
When the United States government accused China of hacking the Office of Personnel Management and gaining access to the records of 4 million current and former federal employees, it marked only the latest – but perhaps biggest – cybersecurity ...
Asset Disposal: Old Computers Bring New Security Worries
June 4th, 2015
In an age where organizations are consolidating datacenters, embracing cloud, and data infiltrates everything via the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises increasingly must consider how to securely, legally, and cost-effectively rid themselves of old servers, workstations, and other data-laden ...
HP Launches HPC & Big Data Global Business Unit
June 4th, 2015
When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary of course. The split is meant to let the ‘new’ ...
Dell’s Goal: Democratize HPC
June 3rd, 2015
Dell hopes to do for HPC what it did for personal computers: Democratize high-performance computers across a broad swathe of enterprise applications. "HPC is at the core of everything we do. It's just different HPC. It's not nuclear reactors. ...
Does Your Business Continuity Plan Include Your Employees?
June 2nd, 2015
With hurricane season upon us, state and federal agencies are teaming up to prepare for worst-case scenarios. But what about you? If a sudden disruption threatens your organization's continuous operations, you may already have a disaster recovery plan in ...
Switch Between Public, Private Clouds with Connected Cloud
June 2nd, 2015
Canadian managed services and telecommunications provider Ormuco today unveiled Connected Cloud, a hybrid cloud that allows enterprises to switch between private and public cloud environments. Based on HP Helion OpenStack, Connected Cloud was designed to enable organizations to initiate ...
Pure Storage Flash Protects Enterprise Investments
June 1st, 2015
Pure Storage today released a trio of announcements, including a cloud-based global management and support offering; new flash array hardware, and a strategy designed to extend enterprises' storage lifespan to at least 10 years. The 1,000-employee company's focus is ...
SRC Enters Commercial Hyperscale Space with Saturn 1 Server
May 28th, 2015
A long-time staple in the world of defense contracting computing, SRC Computers today made its first foray into the commercial space with the introduction of a hyperscale server. Named after Seymour R. Cray, SRC Computers has been selling systems ...
Average Data Breach Costs $3.8 Million, Ponemon Finds
May 27th, 2015
When an organization's records are breached, it costs an average of $3.8 million to overcome the attack, according to the newly released Ponemon Institute's "Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis." Ironically, the annual report came out the day ...
Opsmatic Simplifies DevOps with Live-State Monitoring
May 26th, 2015
Using the experiences they gleaned as developers at Flickr, the founders of startup Opsmatic today debuted a real-time data platform and live-state monitoring service built specifically to support the needs of fast-moving DevOps teams. The combination of DevOps and ...
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