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The Haystack Problem

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Organizations lack sufficient collect and compute resources to arrive at accurate conclusions about whether or not events observed are good or bad. That is to say, simply passing metadata to a SIEM will not, by itself, identify a breach. To make it worse, things one organization or business unit...

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Dell recently announced its intent to acquire EMC at approximately $33.15 a share, for a total transaction price of $67 billion. Upon first hearing of this deal, the ancient proverb, “fortune favors the bold,” immediately came to mind. This is a massive deal, and while some will say it is too...

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Another week, another advancement in GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform from Gigamon, the leader in the Traffic Visibility space! Previously, my colleague Johnnie discussed GigaSECURE solutions to ‘Secure the promise of SDDC Micro-Segmentation’. Now, we are excited to announce at VMworld...

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So by now you have probably heard that Dell is planning on acquiring EMC, while leaving VMware as a publicly traded entity. Hot stuff indeed. This has big implications for the IT market as a whole, but Im most interested in how it sets up change for the big data, database, and analytics space. A...