The IT leaders who make up the CIO Executive Council are finding themselves more often called upon to address the boards of directors at their companies. For many this is an alien environment, full of high-powered, short-attention-span executives with little affinity for technology. CIOs want to learn how to be more effective in their communications with the board and improve their success in conveying the challenges, opportunities and successes in helping achieve business goals that their department offer
In the last newsletter we commented on our belief that application delivery is becoming increasingly important to the success of an organization at the same time that the IT organization is becoming increasingly stove-piped. We stated our belief that senior IT management needs to fix the IT organizational model at both the planning and operational levels.
In the July 17 newsletter, we admonished senior IT managers not to manage each IT component in isolation. In particular, we stated our belief that senior IT managers need to acknowledge that managing applications is a fundamentally new responsibility and that it is very difficult. We emphasized our belief that if you work in IT you have one of two jobs – you either develop applications or deliver them, and that IT organizations need to adjust their structure, tools and processes to respond to this way of
My desktop hard disk crashed a few weeks ago. We think it got a virus that brought the whole PC down. Recovery has been expensive and time-consuming. Although I had anti-virus software running on the PC, I could have avoided this whole painful experience if my network had iSolation Server from Avinti.
If you've ever felt isolated among your smartphone-obsessed friends and family, you're not alone. In fact, a new video from My Science Academy captures that feeling of isolation. CIO.com Senior Writer Tom Kaneshige weighs in on whether mobile devices connect us or sentence us to solitary confinement.
Security practitioners used to be seen as propeller-hat wearing introverts hunched over computers in dark, cold basements for weeks on end, shunning daylight and anyone who tried to start a conversation with them. But times have changed.
Security practitioners used to be seen as propeller-hat wearing introverts hunched over computers in dark, cold basements for weeks on end, shunning daylight and anyone who tried to start a conversation with them. But times have changed.
Different virtualization approaches (emulation, hypervisor-based, operating system-level) and their pros and cons are outlined. Details of the OS-level virtualization approach are given, using OpenVZ as an implementation example. Operating system features -- virtualization, isolation, resource management and checkpointing -- are described, as well as user-level tools. Possible usage scenarios of virtualization are presented.
Microsoft Tuesday finally laid bare details of its plans to create an isolation technology that lets corporations blocks infected or misconfigured clients from accessing a network.
I happened to glance at the Harvard home page the other day and the top story caught my eye: 'Alien abduction claims explained.' Strangely enough, the telecom industry sprang to mind when I read the piece.
As organizations increasingly think about infrastructure not in isolation but rather as the plumbing upon which applications sit, there is a corresponding move to think about how to make infrastructure that is "application aware". Appcito is one vendor offering a platform that promises to fulfil this very promise.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to bolster the nation’s grid defenses with a system called Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization (RADICS) that will detect and automatically respond to cyber-attacks on US critical infrastructure.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) continues to hone the system it hopes would quickly restore power to the U.S. electric grid in the event of a massive cyberattack. The research agency this week said it awarded defense system stalwart BAE Systems an $8.6 million contract to develop a system under its Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization (RADICS) program that has as its central goal to develop technology that will detect and automatically respond to cyber-attacks on US
Long-term video gaming addiction can negatively impact mental health, leading to increased risks of anxiety, depression, and social isolation. Excessive
VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines.
Deploying microsegmentation as part of a broad IoT security strategy can enable more granular control of network systems and better isolation if a security flaw is exploited.
В подкасте XboxEra журналист и инсайдер Джефф Грабб рассказал, что из себя будет представлять приключенческая Jurassic Park: Survival по франшизе "Парк Юрского периода" от студии Saber Interactive. Грабб рассказал, что...