Microsoft accidentally internet-exposed for three weeks 250 million customer support records stored in five misconfigured Elasticsearch databases. While the company rapidly locked them down after being alerted, it's an embarrassing gaff for the technology giant, which has pledged to do better.
Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have been foundational components to many organizations' backup/recovery infrastructure for more than a decade. The importance of PBBAs is illustrated in the numbers: According to IDC, in 2018, the data replication and protection (DR&P) market was approximately $8.9 billion,...
Today's digital economy demands that organizations look at new ways to accelerate IT transformation, drive new revenue streams, and deliver better business outcomes by modernizing IT. The complexity of these environments requires sound data protection. Yet key findings from the Global Data Protection Index - a...
Automatic backup to the cloud is the technology most frequently included as part of availability strategies for mission critical workloads.
In this infographic, view the results of a survey of 2,200 IT Decision Makers over 18 countries, and learn how modernizing data protection means considering a continuum of...
When leveraging AI and machine learning to drive banking innovations, it is essential to take a structured approach in implementing security-by-design for conducting proper risk assessment of the organizations and people involved, says Sameer Ratolikar, CISO, HDFC Bank
A security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained 8.4 TB of email metadata. While it's not clear if anyone accessed the data, an attacker could have seen all email being sent or received by a specific person.
First American Mortgage Corp., the title insurance company that left hundreds of millions of personal documents exposed on the internet, is now facing a lawsuit and an inquiry by New York's financial regulator. The company is also offering free credit monitoring for anyone who used its title and settlement services...
Today's economy is one of constant change. New opportunities, competitors and
risks emerge regularly. To stay competitive and capitalize on new opportunities in the digital economy, every
organization needs to shift to an agile and innovative mindset. That means rethinking
how companies operate, changing processes...
Traditional storage has become the weak link in the data center. From the perspective of input/output-operations-persecond (IOPS), disk-based storage hasn't kept pace with compute or network IOPS - putting the entire data center stack out of balance. This will remain true until IT shifts its storage technology from...
Although some global payment organizations apparently have failed to meet the Bank of India's October 15 deadline for storing all Indians' payment data domestically, the nation's central bank reportedly has ruled out extending the deadline and is demanding a status report.
Security is a journey not a destination. What's been deployed today may be found
to have a vulnerability tomorrow. Operating systems like Windows Server 2003 and
2008, which were once trusted building blocks for critical applications, are now
potential liabilities as time goes on and maintenance comes to an end and...
Deep learning opens up new worlds of possibility in AI, enabled by advances in computational capacity, the explosion in data, and the advent of deep neural networks. But data is evolving quickly and legacy storage systems are not keeping up.
Read this MIT Technology Review custom paper to learn how advanced AI...
Although the government has been slower than the private sector to adopt the cloud, there's no doubt that the shift is underway. IDC says "Cloud First" will become the new mantra for enterprise IT, noting that the major innovations taking place in IT today are not possible without the cloud as a foundation.
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But before India enacts a domestic data storage mandate, all the cost implications must be carefully considered. Legislators must study whether the benefits justify the hefty costs involved.
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