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Model Behaviors in Cybersecurity…let’s just continue to ignore them!
Key themes at this year’s Pink-LATAM conference focused around Agility, Business Value, Risk and…..Culture. Culture and behavior seem to be increasingly featured topics at IT conferences as a critical barrier or enabler for the IT transformation facing many organizations. However it is not simply the culture and behavior within IT but equally within the business.
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Finding Excellence: Looking at Change Management
Implementing and benefiting from service management processes is most definitely a marathon, not a sprint, with value to be gained along the way. In my travels as a consultant, I see varied levels of maturity and struggles faced by organizations. We all continue to look for high availability and outage-free days. But, in some organizations,
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Does Adding a Niche Scratch that Itch? Is CA joining BMC?
Bain Capital & Golden Gate Capital took BMC Software private in 2013 at a time that it was struggling in the Service Management space against an upstart in ServiceNow that was gaining tremendous market share. Since then, ServiceNow has continued to grow while BMC went dark and presumably worked to clean up the product line
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Why NVMe Is Better When Shared
The NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification) standard is being adopted at a rapid pace, with many enterprises already designing all-NVMe data centers as part of new shared-nothing storage architectures for web-scale applications. A recently awarded patent highlights the innovation taking place around NVMe-enabled storage, particularly if your IT network is running real-time analytics,
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Key Signs To Know If Your Computer Has Been Breached By A Computer Virus
Since the very recent “WannaCry” virus attack that affected thousands of computers, we have been dealt repeated blows by malicious cyber criminals who seem intent on causing chaos or profiting off people’s misfortunes. The increase in virus breaches are proof that no computer is really safe from an imminent attack and that you can get
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What a CA and BMC Merger Could Mean
A Bloomberg report late Tuesday afternoon suggested a transaction which could take CA Technologies, Inc. private, combining with BMC Software, who went private in 2013 in a deal with Bain and Golden Gate Capital. What does this mean? CA and BMC both serve the enterprise software space, albeit in slightly different focuses. Both have had
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BMC Software and CA – A Potential Change in the Enterprise Software Landscape
A rumor flew across our desk today that has made the entire team at IT Chronicles sit up and take notice. According to a Bloomberg Technology News article BMC Software and CA are in discussions that would see them combine as part of a transaction to take CA private. The market is certainly taking notice
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Free Guide Offers Advice to Businesses Concerned About Cybersecurity
As rules and regulations change in response to new and developing cybersecurity threats, it can be difficult for businesses to navigate through the minefields that they face in managing the risks associated with security. Centrinet Corp., a Southeastern company specializing in desktop and application virtualization, has published a free guide aimed at helping businesses to
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