5 Essential Data Security Measures for Businesses

The primary operations of nearly all businesses rely on secure data storage and access. That is why it is essential to take the appropriate measures to protect your company data. If you do not, your company’s valuable data—an extremely important asset—could be at...

How to Bring Data Awareness to Your VMs

Virtualization has become a mature platform with a mature ecosystem, and we now see it in every modern data center. With so many businesses heavily investing in hosting, developing and managing virtual workloads, there has also been an escalating difficulty in...

Traditional Networking vs Better Network Management Tools

Network and application visibility is turning the tables for IT administrators, because when they get a complete, instantaneous and comprehensive view into applications, connections, and users, they can much more rapidly identify problems and cut to the chase to solve...

Using Data To Find Answers To Practical Questions

Your staff has practical questions about the data you store, and you can make it easy for them to find their own answers. Consider these scenarios: Q: What percentage of my data has not been accessed over the past year? The dormant data view within the DataGravity...

Shellshock: The Cost of Open Source Software

With the latest September 24th revelation of the bash bug coined “Shellshock” the question becomes: Have we turned a corner and open source software now becomes more expensive to maintain than proprietary products like Microsoft? The last two headline-inducing...

Bash Bug Worse Than Heartbleed?

Is the bash bug, shellshock, worse than the heartbleed bug? There is some debate on the topic, however it is likely that the bash bug will be worse because the attack surface is so large and the exploit can lead to an infinite amount of secondary attacks. Additional...

Data-Aware Storage for your VMware Environment

The excitement at VMWorld about DataGravity (VMWorld 2014 Best New Technology and Best In Show) has not worn off for many, while others may not yet be aware of the product. DataGravity is revolutionizing storage and data management by combining primary storage, data...