Data Center

Join @McAfeeBusiness for #SecChat 4/19: Data Center Security and the Cloud

Recent trends show that organizations large and small are flocking to the cloud in efforts to cut overhead costs and boost the energy efficiency of their data centers. According to a recent AMI-Partners study, more than 30% of SMBs are currently using the cloud to store data, a number that is only expected to grow Read more…

Tags: #SecChat, cloud, data center

Privacy Matters Blog Series: Quantifying Reputational Risk

There are many kinds of risk: operational, legal, and reputational risk. Most large enterprise IT teams are comfortable and proficient at measuring operational risk. It features in reports as minutes of downtime, incidents of endpoint reimages, number of patches installed, hours of overtime. Legal risk isn’t that hard to handle, either. IT can draw on Read more…

Tags: legal risk, operational risk, reputational risk

McAfee Webinar 11/30: Improving Data Center Security

The steady stream of high-profile data breaches has placed data center security in the spotlight. In the 2011 Data Center Security Survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting, they asked data center personnel a wide range of questions about how their organizations deal with IT and data center security. Respondents assessed their organizations’ current security approaches and Read more…

Tags: data center security, McAfee Security Webinars

October #SecChat Recap: Physical & Virtual Security for the Next-Generation Data Center

Last week, we hosted our monthly Twitter #SecChat on data center security, focusing on questions of physical and virtual security in the face of a modern environment that is going through rapid transformation. While the industry is being driven by trends in virtualization, cloud computing and more, data centers are now not only called upon Read more…

Tags: #SecChat, data center security

Do You Really Need To Build A Private Cloud?

These are questions that  Intel’s Billy Cox and McAfee’s Brian Foster will address in an upcoming session — “Do I need a private cloud?” — at the McAfee FOCUS Security Conference, taking place Oct. 18-20 in Las Vegas. This post on Intel.com gets users down the path of questions that they should ask as they explore new infrastructure Read more…

Tags: cloud security, Focus11

Key Findings Of 2011 Datacenter Security Survey Reveal That Security Is Grossly Underserved

Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG), an independent analyst firm, today released key findings of its 2011 Data Center Security Survey, a report focused on security issues and solutions among 147 enterprise data center managers responsible for data centers of all sizes. The results were startling, as is often the case with surveys, and so we thought Read more…

Tags: cloud, data center, data center security, enterprise, Virtualization

Can Data Center Consolidation Result in Improved Security Posture?

 The federal government plans to shut 40 percent of its computer centers over the next four years to reduce its hefty technology budget and modernize the way it uses computers to manage data and provide services to citizens. It is a part of  the strategy outlined in a memo from March last year to Federal agencies, which Read more…

Tags: cloud, consolidation, data center, data center security, enterprise, security optimization

The Consumer Experience, The Data Center And 99.9% Uptime (Part 2)

In my blog last week, I outlined my perspective as a consumer impacted by a website outage. As a follow-up, I want to share a recent opportunity I had to speak with small organizations that consume cloud computing services via service providers to support their businesses and who have been impacted by recent outages. Some Read more…

Tags: Cloud computing, data, data center, outages

The Consumer Experience, The Data Center And 99.9% Uptime

While 99.9% network and server uptime has long been an established standard in data centers, the consumer experience so often fails to live up to that, and I as I was reminded of again this weekend.    Unplanned network or server changes or vulnerabilities are often the cause of website outages.  And, as the website Read more…

Tags: Cybercrime, data breach, data center, data center security, Data Protection, enterprise, Risk and Compliance

Role of Security in the Next-generation Data Center

At the Uptime Conference this year I was struck by the absence of security as a process in the many innovative technological innovations that are expected to transform data centers. Surely recent events have taught us that a secure and robust datacenter is needed to ensure both business continuity and business agility.

Tags: cloud security, data center, data center security, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, network security server security