Is Your Organization Trained to Deal With a Crisis?
Most people have visions of beef recalls or an oil explosion; when the minute words such as “crisis management” are uttered.
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Where Do I Get vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS)?
For years, vSphere has had alarms to let you know when things are above or below thresholds you specify. This is a great first step in identifying items that may require your attention and/or further investigation. The problem is that these thresholds are static; you set a value and are notified if it is above that value, such as CPU utilization > 75%. While useful, it can lead to many false alarms if you have a virtual machine (VM) that routinely exceeds that value or one that spikes to that value for a while during a batch-processing interval.
Enter vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS). Let the computer do what it does best: monitoring and alerting, figuring out what is “normal,” and then notifying administrators when things are abnormal.
Read moreIs Your Organization Trained to Deal With a Crisis?
Most people have visions of beef recalls or an oil explosion; when the minute words such as “crisis management” are uttered.
Read moreApache Hadoop: The Swiss Army Knife of IT
In the world of big data, most industry experts agree that Hadoop is the tool of choice for ingestion, analysis, and interpretation of the massive amounts of data that nearly every business finds itself swimming in. Business leaders have discovered that this data has real and profound impacts on the bottom line, and as a result, more and more IT departments are tasked with creating and maintaining software to pull value out of that data.
Read moreLegal Issues of Cloud Forensics — Part 4
The use of cloud services has skyrocketed primarily because it is cheaper and more convenient than the alternative. Unfortunately, many companies have entered the cloud without first checking the weather forecast or performing a risk analysis. What happens if the cloud gets stormy, you suffer a breach, and you find yourself in the position of having to conduct digital forensics? What now? Can you collect data yourself? Where is your data? Who else has had access to your data? Is the provider the actual data holder or have they subcontracted? Many of these issues are better addressed before you enter the cloud. Failing that, what can you do?
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