Ed Tittel's Posts

As IT increasingly moves into cloud-based computing, managing information, maintaining security and protecting data integrity all become more challenging. It’s not out of line to talk about a looming cloud complexity crisis.

Experts largely agree that automation is an important ingredient for managing cloud services and technology. Find out ways to use automation to make the cloud more efficient and the skills IT pros need to work in the cloud.

As terms and concepts go, blockchain has more than enough buzz to go around. But although most people know that blockchain is the underlying technology that makes digital currencies work, they don’t always understand its benefits beyond currency.

Because IT is so important to all businesses, and the focus for an employment sector of its own, IT is and should remain a fertile ground in which to plant and nurture careers for the foreseeable future. That said, let’s try to understand where the best and most abounding opportunities might be found in this field.

Taking proper care to comply with legal and regulatory requirements for information privacy, confidentiality, and protection often means understanding risks of breach or loss. Such due diligence is best served by conducting formal risk assessment and management procedures, and engaging in best risk management practices.

Under the bells, whistles and blinking lights that represent IT, there’s a lot of infrastructure that ties all the people, processing and data together to get the work done. The better IT professionals understand that underlying infrastructure, the better they’ll be equipped to practice their particular trades and get things done.

Though the cloud has become ubiquitous, not everybody gets what cloud computing is, and why it’s taking over IT and computing. Here, we provide a basic introduction to some key terms and concepts and explain why cloud computing rules IT as we know it today and for the foreseeable future.

Instead of “your place or mine?” the real question with cloud computing is how best to mix and match cloud infrastructure, assets and services that come from private and public clouds under a single umbrella. Here, we explore the issues involved and some of the common best practices for resolving them.

Love it or hate it, access to and data storage in the cloud are facts of digital life. But data security in cloud computing depends on a variety of factors. Understanding those factors and working them in one’s favor are essential to protecting sensitive confidential and valuable information.