Author: Kori Younger
The Secure, Automated, Modern Data Center
Application availability for all users, anytime, from any location, on any cloud, is critical in meeting business needs. Businesses can no longer afford planned or unplanned downtime; applications must be available 24 x 7. When a data center network has an outage, all servers and applications are affected. Statista.com reports that in 2019 survey of… More The Secure, Automated, Modern Data Center
Digging into Anchor_DNS
Anchor DNS: The developers of TrickBot created anchor_dns, a DNS tunnel, as a new tool to send and receive information from the victims’ machine. Trickbot, a popular banking trojan, acts as a trojan horse for other malware. Anchor_dns was first observed in early 2019. Anchor_dns acts as a backdoor that allows victims machines to send… More Digging into Anchor_DNS
Data-as-a-Service by Hammerspace
Several companies have claimed to have software-defined storage solutions; however, these solutions were not truly software-defined. Hammerspace founder David Flynn admits that he is solving a problem that he is partially responsible for creating. David was one of the two founders of a company the eventually became Fusion-io; SanDisk acquired Fusion-io in July 2014. Serving… More Data-as-a-Service by Hammerspace
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
The importance of community and collaboration in the technology community. Tech Field day is much more than three or four days of vendor presentations. Tech Field day is a community of bloggers, podcasters, webcasters, speakers, who have become industry influencers, we are a community that shares knowledge, support one another, and lift each other up.… More A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Cloud Control
The number one question I ask every IT Director, CIO and CTO is “What is your cloud strategy?”. I have only ever had one company say they had a cloud strategy. The CIO told me they give their developers a corporate credit card and they can use any cloud they want to use. That is… More Cloud Control
Armis is Keeping IoT in Check
Privacy is incredibly important in public opinion, technology must be implemented correctly to ensure data is private. Armis has quantified normalcy. Armis has created a two-tailed, 95% confidence interval for the amount of information a piece of hardware should be transmitting or taking up. At the end of the day, bandwidth is money. Every bit… More Armis is Keeping IoT in Check
SDN Past & Future with Bruce Davie
Technology in Unexpected Places – Smart Agriculture
We often find technology in unexpected places. While driving from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz, on a whim we pulled into a the Fambrini Produce Stand and found the most fragrant lavender, delicious, and some very interesting conversation. We met J.C. Famfrini, and my gut instinct said he was into technology. I inquired and… More Technology in Unexpected Places – Smart Agriculture