I joined many of my colleagues in the information security community a couple of weeks ago for the annual gathering of the tribe at RSA’s 2019 conference. We come together every year to share our thoughts on the latest trends in security — and every year, a theme emerges. It looks like 2019 will be…

Technology is revolutionizing the healthcare industry, and the cloud is revolutionizing IT. This development was clear last month at the HIMSS 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla. Healthcare providers are finding innovative ways to use the cloud to improve everything from patient care to back-office billing. In fact, a 2018 report found that the healthcare industry…

Sometimes, when I’m speaking with IT managers about how to build out video collaboration systems for their organizations, they want to start the conversation by talking about a particular high-end Logitech camera, or a specific, slick Samsung video panel. Often, these technology pros have a mandate from on high: A leader within the company has…

Sometimes, instead of evolving slowly, technology takes a giant leap forward. When this happens for one part of IT, everything else effectively becomes a bottleneck, and further changes must take place to bring the rest of the IT environment up to the new standard of performance. This has happened recently with storage. After flash storage…

As a senior data center architect, I work regularly with organizations such as police forces, county health departments and state election agencies. These organizations face different challenges, and each has different ways that it wants to achieve its mission. But my conversations with the people in these organizations reveal meaningful similarities among them. Generally, the…

In my previous blog post, I talked about the need for organizations that are making the transition to public cloud to understand the inherent value of being in the cloud. Moving your private infrastructure into a hybrid cloud is not enough. You need to focus on transforming people, processes and technology in a way that…