Judging from search engine traffic — and from the calls I receive — there’s some confusion out there about hybrid cloud and multicloud. In truth, both are completely viable models, with various organizations relying on each to achieve significant business benefits. But before IT and business leaders can decide which approach makes the most sense for them, they need to step back and ask themselves what outcomes they are trying to achieve.

Driving greater automation is a process that underlies most every project in the data center. It’s an important business differentiator that can help determine an organization’s success. And like all good things, there are lots of problems that gum it up. Having greater awareness of some of these roadblocks will help you see and address them sooner.

Three of the most common problems you’ll encounter are: long system uptime, manual restarts and dated processes. This post will help you address them and strengthen your automation efforts.

Today’s educators realize that devices are just one component of a modern learning environment, which also incorporates flexible furniture, audiovisual solutions and — most importantly — instruction tailored to take advantage of these tools. Here’s how modern learning environments help students develop life and career skills and excel in the areas of learning and innovation, as well as information, media and technology.

As cybersecurity professionals, we work each day to protect against a wide variety of threats. Attackers probe our firewalls with port scans, search out application security flaws and wage other exotic attacks against our systems. While those threats are real, the controls we use to address them don’t touch the No. 1 threat that affects organizations on a daily basis: phishing.

Phishing attacks are nothing new. They’ve certainly increased in sophistication over the past 20 years, but attackers have consistently used them to gain access to systems and information over the years for one good reason: They too often work. Let’s look at three security controls that organizations can put in place today to reduce their risk of falling victim to a phishing attack.

If you have spent any time configuring Cisco voice gateways, you have likely struggled with dial-peer matching. Until recently, things were reasonably straightforward. Telephone directory numbers (extensions) were typically four digits. When a call came in from the outside, the carrier typically sent just the last four to seven digits. When you wanted to place…

Organizations keep their data in a lot of different places: onsite, in the cloud (another person’s data center) or in an all-in-one data warehouse. Often, this data is siloed. But if an organization could harness the power of its data and become a data-driven organization, it would be able to grow and compete more effectively. The company could move mountains — or so the idea goes. So why do data projects fail, and how can changing the organization’s culture turn things around?