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Top Five Enterprise Data Layers
Layered data models have been with us for decades. During the 70’s, businesses communicated using proprietary networking architectures, such as the seven-layer IBM SNA model. Today, the six-layer OSI networking model, which is the basis of the Internet, has evolved to...
Benefits of Machine Learning in IT Infrastructure
During the next 5 years, machine learning is poised to play a pivotal and transformational role in how IT Infrastructure is managed. Two key scenarios are possible: transforming infrastructure from a set of under-utilized capital assets to a highly efficient set of...
Top Five Reasons to Use Verified Asset Discovery
During February 2017, Forrester Research published a report titled, “IT Efficiency Begins with Effective Discovery and Dependency Mapping,” sponsored by BMC, which focuses on the benefits of using discovery and mapping tools. Blazent asserts that the value of...
Securing the Internet of Things
This blog post, covering the Internet of Things, considers security challenges. Security has always been a high order concern in distributed systems, even if it’s only dozens of devices. Now think of the increased scope of this challenge where people routinely speak...
Top 5 Security Breaches of 2016
At the end of last year, Sarah Kuranda wrote an article on The 10 Biggest Data Breaches Of 2016 for CRN. 2016 was, unfortunately, another big year for data breaches. While, organizations understandably do not like to share how they were compromised, having the...
Information Technology, Operational Technology and the Internet of Things
This blog has previously mentioned the relationship between IT Asset Management (normally under the control of IT) and Fixed Asset Management (normally under the control of OT – Operational Technology). In equipment-intensive verticals, such as manufacturing or...
Top 5 Benefits of Doing IoT Right
IoT is fast becoming a mainstream buzzword because the cost of the technology, which essentially enables automated data collection, is decreasing rapidly. Manual alternatives for data collection and analysis are not only error-prone, but also unfeasible given the...
The Two Faces of Internet of Things (IoT) in the Data Center
The ascension of the Internet of Things (IoT) will have two profound effects on data center operations. First, IoT techniques will continue to increase their utility for core data center operational processes, and second, broader use of IoT-enabled infrastructure will...
Top 5 Accelerators Defining the Business Landscape of 2020
A key requirement to make data usable is to provide “context.” In his presentation on contextual intelligence, Thei Geurts describes Forrester’s prediction for the five accelerators defining the business landscape of 2020. What follows is an overview of the...
Top 5 CMDB Source Types
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides a centralized data source to support Service, Asset, Operations and Datacenter management functions. Based on data from hundreds of CMDB stand-ups and data quality initiatives, we compiled a list of the most...
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