Monday, January 24
Cybersecurity is a people problem, driven by our perception of risk. Tools help. In fact, tools are incredibly necessary but tools are also only as good as the people implementing them. Also, the work culture has a huge impact on behavior because employees tend to gravity toward the middle of the group, modeling their behavior to fit in, and be accepted as part of the team – for better or worse from a security best practices standpoint.
67% of security breaches are due to human behavior, not the failure of tools.
People have to digest a lot of information and success often means navigating that information efficiently, making decisions quickly – like to avoid getting in an accident on the freeway. But, that quick decision-making is not helpful during a cyberattack. People have unconscious biases that often serve them well in the workplace in general but can be catastrophic when exploited by a hacker.
Monday, January 10
Ameca is said to be the world’s most advanced humanoid robot. CES attendees have the unique opportunity to view and interact with Ameca up close. This robot looks like a person, with facial features that move and flex to indicate expressions and mimic emotion and eyes that accurately track movement. Engineered Arts designed Ameca with as realistic facial features as possible to help scientists and engineers study and improve human-robot interactions. People connect by reading facial cues, so having a robot with life-like expressions and responses is expected to be beneficial in hospital and hospitality uses where communication interactions are integral to success.
Wednesday, January 12
The semiconductor chip shortage highlights a major infrastructure problem for the US – 75% of semiconductors are manufactured in Asia. Twenty-five years ago, the US produced 37% of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing in the US but today only produces 12%. In our June 2021 enterprise storage newsletter, we highlighted the chip shortage and, in particular, the impact on the automotive industry. Even the most basic gas-powered car now has over 100 chips, while the latest electric vehicle may hold more than 1,000. The chip shortage has resulted in few available gaming consoles, cars with limited features, and a reduced production of iPhones.
Thursday, December 16
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Tuesday, December 7
KIOXIA America, Inc. announced the addition of the BG5 Series that is intended to bolster its lineup of PCIe® 4.0 solid state drives (SSDs). It is designed to balance performance, cost and power for gamers and PC users. The KIOXIA BG5 Series is built with a PCIe® 64 GT/s interface (Gen4 x4 lanes) and accelerated by the company’s fifth-generation BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology and is available in capacities of 256, 512 and 1024 gigabytes (GB).
Monday, December 13
Extreme Networks was established by three LAN switching industry veterans, Gordon Stitt, Herb Schneider, and Stephen Haddock, to target the development of third-generation LAN switches based on emerging Gigabit Ethernet technology. Extreme Networks is based in San Jose, with over 2700 employees and over 50k worldwide customers.
Tuesday, November 23
Department of Justice officials announced the arrests of five members of the ransomware criminal enterprise, REvil. REvil has been tied to over 7k ransomware attacks and hundreds of millions in ransoms, including the attack on meat supplier JBS and Miami-based technology company Kaseya. JBS paid $11M in ransom but Kaseya refused to negotiate with the cybercriminals. The arrests were part of an international investigation, Operation GoldDust, involving law enforcement agencies from 17 countries. Members of REvil were identified through wiretapping and seizure of REvil infrastructure – and, exploiting REvil tactics against its members.
Monday, November 29
Muon Space will launch a fleet of satellites designed to analyze Earth’s atmosphere, land, and water in fine detail using measurements from its own equipment and publicly available satellite data. Muon’s satellites will use thermal infrared sensors, infrared spectroscopy, and low-frequency radar to gather data and apply its algorithms to existing image databases and calculating soil moisture levels, snow depth, and standing water in various locations. Their integrated remote sensing platform is expected to provide accuracy and integration of data to more effectively combat climate climate.
Friday, November 12
Storage Review’s analysis of Intel P5510 vs Samsung PM9A3 Enterprise SSDs was thorough and intensive. While Brian Beeler was quick to politely comment on each and talk about the giants amongst us, and phew, what a whirlwind it was, we won’t hesitate to declare a winner. Intel crushed Samsung – especially if you are actually looking for a bottom line, instead of a participation trophy for each. This is business and competition drives, motivates, propels companies to greatness (or demise). Let’s not hesitate to call it like it is – for everyone’s good, including the competitors.
Wednesday, November 17
Infinidat persuaded thirtyfive-year enterprise storage veteran, Eric Herzog, to serve as Chief Marketing Officer after nearly seven years as CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions where he was responsible for worldwide product marketing and management for IBM's storage systems, software-defined storage, hyper converged infrastructure, and global storage channels. Eric Herzog has managed all aspects of marketing, product management, and business development in both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.
Thursday, October 21
Technology, including special effects in movies, as truly evolved. How have datacenters evolved in movies – not just as a background prop but as a central feature? We highlight a few movies below…
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester – A quest to find mankind’s origins with help from supercomputer H.A.L 9000
The main character must disassemble the AI villain inside the datacenter. And, while datacenters did not make it to space by 2001, that technology is well underway for the near future. The movie is iconic in reflecting much of the technology we take for granted today.
WarGames, 1987
Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood – A young man finds a backdoor to a military central computer and game play is blurred with reality and the potential threat of WWIII. Okay, fair enough, no datacenter. But, it gets an honorable mention at that start of this evolution because President Reagan
Wednesday, October 13
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