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Companies capture more data and compute capacity at the edge. At the same time, they are laying the groundwork for a distributed enterprise that can capitalize on a multiplier effect to maximize intended business outcomes. The number of edge sites — factory floors, retail shops, hospitals, and countless other locations — is growing. This gives businesses more opportunity to gain insights and make better decisions across the distributed enterprise. Data follows the activities of customers,…

In their rush to the cloud, companies can easily end up with significant waste by taking a “best efforts” approach to aligning cloud instance types and sizes to workloads. Businesses, particularly those that are relatively new to the cloud, often overprovision resources to ensure performance or avoid running out of capacity. The result is that their workloads may consume a fraction of the resources being paid for. Even organizations experienced with cloud infrastructure can waste…

Image: iStockphoto.com/SamuelBrownNG IT professionals looking to become certified in a particular technology, and earn a healthy salary to boot, should focus on the cloud or cybersecurity, at least according to the latest information from educational technology company Skillsoft. Released on Thursday, Sept. 29, a new report looks at the 15 highest-paying IT certifications for 2022, citing such roles as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Information Security Manager, Google Cloud Architect and Certified Information Systems Security…

Data is the lifeforce of modern business: It accelerates revenue, fuels innovation, and enhances customer experiences that drive small and mid-size businesses forward, faster. Yet while data-driven modernization is a top priority, achieving it requires confronting a host of data storage challenges that slow you down: management complexity and silos, specialized tools, constant firefighting, complex procurement, and flat or declining IT budgets. To truly modernize today, you need more than a faster and more powerful…

The benefits of analyzing vast amounts of data, long-term or in real-time, has captured the attention of businesses of all sizes. Big data analytics has moved beyond the rarified domain of government and university research environments equipped with supercomputers to include businesses of all kinds that are using modern high performance computing (HPC) solutions to get their analytics jobs done. Its big data meets HPC ― otherwise known as high performance data analytics.  Bigger, Faster, More…

Data intelligence helps organizations create new customer experiences, accelerate operations and capitalize on new market opportunities. It also gives them the agility to pivot when the unexpected strikes.  While becoming data-driven makes great sense, some organizations struggle to put it into practice. Adopting a company-wide data culture can be particularly challenging, requiring companies to overhaul how they operate from the board room to the shop floor. On the technical side, IT teams must liberate and unify…

A hacking group dubbed ‘Witchetty’ has been observed using a steganographic technique to hide a backdoor in a Windows logo and target Middle Eastern governments. According to a new advisory by Broadcom, Witchetty (aka LookingFrog) is believed to have connections to the state–backed Chinese threat actor APT10 as well as with TA410 operatives, a group previously linked to attacks against US energy providers. Witchetty was first discovered by ESET in April 2022, with its activity…