By: Larry Lunetta, Vice President of Portfolio Solutions Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company As IT pros continue on their journey to cloud, at the forefront of their collective minds is how they secure an increasingly complex IT environment where sensitive data is generated and processed at points between the edge, data centers, and the cloud. In fact, organizations today are migrating from large and centralized data centers to more diffused centers of data….

Have you ever bought a car without taking it out for a test drive? Subscribed into a streaming service without the free trial? Or bought a pair of glasses online before using the home try-on offer? I’m going to assume that 9 out of 10 times, the answer is a resounding No! Testing a product before committing to purchase is a key part of modern human behavior. And it makes sense – because why take…

We are nearing halfway through 2021, and things are constantly evolving. Over the past year, organizations faced new challenges and needs for implementing indoor location services at their physical spaces. Today, as more people are getting vaccinated and more organizations plan to reopen their offices, it is imperative to maximize workplace safety while utilizing space utilization insights to drive operational efficiencies. Cisco DNA Spaces, with its ecosystem partner IBM TRIRIGA, allows organizations to meet those…

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one. OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back. Some losses were complete, such…

A new survey by the Uptime Institute found that power issues are becoming less of a problem for data center operators, but networking and software issues are emerging as an increasingly bigger problem. The Uptime Institute’s third Annual Outage Analysis notes that while improvements have been made with technology and availability, outages remain a major industry, customer, and regulatory concern.  The report also shows that the overall impact and direct and indirect cost of outages…