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If you thought 2017 was a dire year for data breaches, wait until 2018. The Information Security Forum, a global, independent information security body that focuses on cyber security and information risk management, forecasts an increase in the number and impact of data breaches, thanks in large part to five key global security threats that organizations will face in 2018.
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Tech Genix
Hybrid cloud systems represent an alluring option for enterprises. This is because you are able to couple a private cloud to public cloud systems to achieve the best possible performance level. However, hybrid cloud systems come with their own unique risks. Let us take a look at some of them.
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With industry-leading components from Cisco and Pure Storage, FlashStack is a powerful, efficient, and evergreen converged infrastructure solution that will shorten your time to value and deliver serious ROI. It scales, without disruption, as your needs grow and provides a powerful and reliable platform. Watch the video to learn more!
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Tech Target
The cloud provides many benefits for disaster recovery, and enables an enterprise to safeguard its data across multiple regions. But that doesn't mean the work stops there. We asked members of the SearchCloudComputing Advisory Board to share their top advice for disaster recovery in the cloud.
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Healthcare IT News
While the number of women in health IT leadership positions have grown over the years, there is still a long way to go to increase diversity and equality within the industry. In fact, even with 1 million cybersecurity positions open in 2016, women only make up 11 percent of the IT workforce.
So how do these women health IT innovators make a big impact in an industry often dominated by men?
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Info World
A report by JLL shows that the strong movement of data from private corporate servers to cloud services, coupled with a growing corporate interest in Internet of Things initiatives, is pushing the demand for these new datacenters. With data usage skyrocketing, major cloud providers expect triple their infrastructure by 2020, so they are building or renting datacenter space to keep up with the growth.
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Forbes
Technology is transforming business, and the impact is backed by solid data. According to Pierre Nanterme, the CEO of Accenture, more than half of companies that were on the Fortune 500 in 2000 are no longer around, and it would seem that digital is the main reason.
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Healthcare IT News
The considerable hype around blockchain is starting to be tempered by enterprises earning practical experience and identifying worthwhile use cases for the technology.
Most of the buzz around blockchain in healthcare has focused on EHRs, interoperability and security, but a new potential for value-based care, precision medicine and a patient-driven healthcare system are emerging as more clear and present opportunities for the distributed digital ledger technology.
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Computer World
While the technology has great potential, CIOs and their business counterparts who are exploring blockchain should expect setbacks in deploying it, including the real possibility of serious software bugs and risks posed by quantum computing, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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InfoWorld
It's a constantly evolving science, the ability to understand the exact business benefit of cloud computing. A few years ago, the benefit was largely conceived as "capex vs. opex," the ability to shift to an on-demand consumption model and thus avoid the capital expenses of hardware and software.
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TechRepublic
Google's BeyondCorp is a fundamentally better way to secure enterprise assets, but requires a different approach.
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Information Week
Organizations across industries are undergoing some type of digital transformation, however quickly or slowly. The leaders are disrupting business as usual while the laggards are clinging to traditional ways of doing business.
Digital transformation itself is typically viewed as a technology problem, but the larger problem is cultural adjustment, which impacts business processes and talent.
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CISO Mag
The debates on the skill gap and gender gap in cybersecurity have off late become few of the most redundant topics. But both continue to escalate even after significant efforts by several organizations. A study by The Global Information Security Workforce Study from and its Centre for Cyber Safety and Education had revealed that the women only make up to 11 percent of the global cybersecurity workforce.
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Information Week
When deciding whether to relocate to a particular city, IT workers have a lot of factors to consider. For example, many technology professionals prefer to move to areas where the number of available tech jobs is growing rapidly. That way, even if they lose their current job, they have a good chance of finding another one in the same city.
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