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.
Correcting the Collaboration Conundrum
July 7th, 2015
To simplify their jobs, a growing number of employees circumvent IT and go directly to cloud-based tools to share documents, images, and other private business information. This can create security, backup, e-discovery, and compliance concerns if the tool has ...
Analytics in Cloud Heals Healthcare’s Ills
July 6th, 2015
Now the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Affordable Care Act subsidies, healthcare providers and insurers can put the possibility of drastic change out of their minds and focus entirely on improving care while cutting costs. Once news ...
Conservative Bank Treads Softly Into Cloud
July 6th, 2015
As head of infrastructure at DZ BANK, Dr. Jan Vitt is cautiously leading the conservative German financial institution's investment into cloud. Germany, after all, has some of the most stringent privacy and security regulations in the world, and DZ BANK must ...
Escrow Averts Service Provider Disaster
July 2nd, 2015
As more organizations rely on cloud service providers, they must consider how to handle unexpected outages that could impact day-to-day operations or the long-term capacity to access data or systems from their service provider. What, for example, happens if ...
Four Ways to Benefit from Robotic Process Automation
July 2nd, 2015
News about automation and its socio-economic impact is all around us today. While some automation been around for decades, the last two years have seen exponential progress in its capability and potential impact. But progress, especially in large companies, ...
Cloud Providers Must Spill Clients’ Secrets
June 30th, 2015
Whether cloud falls under the bailiwick of IT or a business operation, gaining insight into data about usage, security, and other key metrics is an important – but sometimes difficult – capability to glean. In fact, about 60 percent ...
6 Strategies for Outsourcing IoT
June 30th, 2015
No movement has shaken up the tech industry quite like the Internet of Things. Building machine-to-machine (M2M) devices is arguably the most complicated level of development right now because most developers just do not have experience writing concurrent code ...
How to Protect Your Aging Network
June 29th, 2015
The Office of Personnel Management breach was the most recent and public example of the damage aging networks can help deliver to an organization: A lack of standard practices such as encryption, data masking, and redaction that prevents many ...
Manta Beats Bots with Automated Protection
June 26th, 2015
As a destination site where about 30 million small and midsize companies market themselves to each other and consumers, Manta is attractive to another form of traffic: web scrapers that use automated bots to steal content and siphon valuable ...
Snowflake Builds Data Warehouse in the Cloud
June 25th, 2015
At a time when many developers decry the need for a data warehouse, startup Snowflake Computing this week revealed general availability for its Elastic Data Warehouse, a solution designed for the cloud. Headed by CEO Bob Muglia, former president ...
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