There are a variety of opinions on what DevOps is or how to do it “right”. I have spoken with a number of experts who claim that it’s possible to succeed at DevOps at a smaller team level–even in an […]
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Perfection is unattainable–especially with a software development project. Eliminating all mistakes is simply impractical. The real goal is to learn from the mistakes that are made so those mistakes can be avoided in the future. Companies that observe best practices
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A recurring claim at security conferences is that “security is a big data / machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI) problem”. This is unfortunately wildly optimistic, and wrong in general. While certain security problems can be addressed by ML/AI
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I used to work for IBM and it is always a bit of a kick when I’m at an IBM event. IBM was not only the greatest company I ever worked for, it was the most frustrating. It was a
IBM, Apple, and Watson: You are about to become obsolete Read More »
Think about this for a second: Every day, six billion SMS messages are sent in the US, about twice the number of phone calls made and roughly 25 times the number of pieces of first class mail processed and delivered
Life in the Internet age is fast-paced. The Internet is the backbone of all that instantaneous data and real-time information, which means the data center has to be more fluid and more dynamic than ever before. A traditional data center
The future of data centers is software-defined Read More »
If someone finds a security issue on your website or in software your company developed, what are they supposed to do with that information? Hopefully they won’t simply announce it to the general public before giving you a chance to
New tool from HackerOne assesses vulnerability coordination maturity Read More »
Security metrics and log data don’t have much value in and of themselves. The value is derived by the questions you ask and information that you can extract from the security metrics and log data. If you have the wrong
Use the right security metrics for the right reasons Read More »
We run around talking about how important analytics is and yet there are few really compelling examples of how well it is working. Part of this is because the vast majority of implementations are still in process and haven’t gotten
How GoPro is using Amazon, BMC, and Cloudera to kick everyone else’s butt Read More »
Expert analysis is great, but in many respects a crowdsourced opinion has more validity. For example, a professional critic will provide a deep analysis of a movie–the directing, the acting, the dialogue, the cinematography. In the end, though, crowdsourced word-of-mouth
Gartner and its Magic Quadrant challenged by crowdsourced market research Read More »
