I just returned from Collaborate 18 in Las Vegas, which, for those of who aren’t familiar with it, is the annual Oracle User’s Group meeting. They had thousands of attendees again this year and had some great presenters including our own Sridahr Avantsa, Kevin Gilpin and Mike Messina, who talked about moving to the cloud and updating to Oracle 12C.
As an IT manager in today’s hypercompetitive environment, your challenge is to be agile, innovative, keep the organization secure, and, of course, control costs. Easy, right?
Security often gets a bad rap as the ‘Department of No,’ but there is a really good reason for that. We exist to protect the business and the organization from exploit, attack, and breach.
The most common second step of any security breach is the exploit of a security vulnerability in a platform or application. Today, that includes not just PCs and Mac, but a whole host of mobile devices, and all the systems sitting in our datacenters, the cloud, and the Internet at large.
Who’s in your network? The adversaries are already past the gate. One third of US companies were breached in 2016, and even more don’t yet know that they have already been breached. The amount of time-to-discover that a breach has happened is measured in weeks and months when the time-to-compromise defenses is measured in minutes. The moats and walls of yesteryear aren’t keeping us safe from the adversary anymore.
The trouble is that applications don’t stay in the data center. Obvious statement, but they are worthless unless some user can access them.
SDDCs promise to do for the entire data center what virtualization did for servers: increase flexibility, availability, provide enhanced automation capabilities, and deliver more bang for the box.
In a recent report by Frost & Sullivan, 81% of Line of Business (LoB) managers said they bypass IT to purchase cloud applications. At a time when CIOs are trying to get funding for private cloud initiatives, LoB buy-in can be a significant barrier.