The federal government plans to shut 40 percent of its computer centers over the next four years to reduce its hefty technology budget and modernize the way it uses computers to manage data and provide services to citizens. It is a part of the strategy outlined in a memo from March last year to Federal agencies, which Read more…
Tags: cloud, consolidation, data center, data center security, enterprise, security optimization
Data centers have been going through a lot of changes. In the past, it wasn’t unusual to see an organization with dozens or even hundreds of data centers spread out all over the world. As the physical environment of these data centers have become more complicated, there has been a trend towards consolidation in order Read more…
Tags: Consumer, data, data center, data loss, enterprise, security, security breach
When it comes to data center operations, IT departments are concerned with upgrading legacy architectures to enable business agility and ensure maximum uptime. However, much too often, security is not a key consideration in the design phase of a data center. Here at McAfee, the Data Center team has been blogging regularly about the importance Read more…
Tags: breach, data, data center, security
In my blog last week, I outlined my perspective as a consumer impacted by a website outage. As a follow-up, I want to share a recent opportunity I had to speak with small organizations that consume cloud computing services via service providers to support their businesses and who have been impacted by recent outages. Some Read more…
Tags: Cloud computing, data, data center, outages
While 99.9% network and server uptime has long been an established standard in data centers, the consumer experience so often fails to live up to that, and I as I was reminded of again this weekend. Unplanned network or server changes or vulnerabilities are often the cause of website outages. And, as the website Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, data center, data center security, Data Protection, enterprise, Risk and Compliance
“McAfee and Intel have combined an array of technologies critical to cloud security…” Phil Hochmuth, IDC At Interop 2011, we announced our Cloud Security Platform, a new approach to securing all content and data traffic moving to or through the Cloud. In essence, the new platform allows you to more securely and confidently take advantage Read more…
Tags: cloud, cloud security, Cybercrime, data breach, data center, data center security, enterprise
At the Uptime Conference this year I was struck by the absence of security as a process in the many innovative technological innovations that are expected to transform data centers. Surely recent events have taught us that a secure and robust datacenter is needed to ensure both business continuity and business agility.
Tags: cloud security, data center, data center security, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, network security server security
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