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.
Getting Cybersecurity Insurance After a Breach
July 22nd, 2015
Getting cybersecurity insurance after a cybersecurity breach can be a daunting exercise. The primary underwriter may either drop the entire company for commercial insurance coverage or not offer cybersecurity insurance moving forward, Guy Fogel, agent for Argo Group, said. ...
Transparency Leads to Cloud ROI
July 21st, 2015
Having demonstrated cloud's flexibility and agility, IT departments now are tasked with reining in costs and centralizing control over often dispersed deployments of cloud across their organizations. After all, enterprises that negotiate and commit to longer term contracts, thereby ...
Hackers Carjack Jeep in IoT Nightmare
July 21st, 2015
Two hackers successfully took control of a Jeep Cherokee as it hurtled along a highway at 70 miles per hour, turning an Internet of Things nightmare into reality – albeit under experimental conditions. As Andy Greenberg describes in today's ...
Under Attack: Malware Roundup from Security Pros
July 20th, 2015
The weekend brought no respite for anxious chief security officers, CIOs, and other professionals involved in the never-ending quest to protect data, networks, and accounts from the onslaught of new and old attacks and attackers seeking to steal, access, ...
Dell Expands Cloud, Flash Array Offerings
July 20th, 2015
Dell today unveiled enhancements to both cloud and flash storage products designed to increase adoption of both technologies across enterprises. Dell Software's latest iteration of Dell Cloud Manager supports Windows Azure Pack and Microsoft Azure public cloud, plus other ...
Analytics Put Tour de France Fans in the Race
July 17th, 2015
Billions of cycling fans around the world who follow the progress of their Tour de France via a sophisticated combination of cloud, big data analytics, and mobile technologies are gaining insight into how their favorite bikers, 22 teams, or nations ...
Multiple Choices for Win Server 2003 Holdouts
July 16th, 2015
Now Microsoft no longer supports Windows Server 2003, organizations still relying on the once popular product are dealing with several alternatives: External support, no support, upgrade, or transition to another platform. Any enterprises still considering alternate options for their datacenters ...
4 Lessons from NYSE, United Airlines & WSJ
July 16th, 2015
By now, I think we all know the gory details from July 8. But just to remind you, it was a rough day: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was down for more than three hours, removing all scheduled ...
Nimble, Dell, Seagate Unveil Storage, Backup Products
July 15th, 2015
IT professionals' storage options continued to expand this week, as Nimble Storage enhanced its Adaptive Flash product and both Seagate and Dell unveiled cloud backup and replication solutions. On July 15, Nimble Storage added new capabilities to its Nimble ...
NoSQL vs. NewSQL: Choosing the Right Database for Your Business
July 15th, 2015
For decades, relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been the go-to solution for storing and retrieving data. But due to the rapid growth of data volume just about every business is experiencing and the high cost of scaling up ...
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