Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2013

All those factors together make the Symantec Government Symposium of 11 March 2014 one to pay attention to. The Symantec Government Symposium features 10 sessions where attendees will: Explore how agencies can develop a process for incident response prioritization and use actionable intelligence throughout the entire threat lifecycle.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 3, 2015

DataThe data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone who’s been in an organization that has internal data centers. This ‘different’ thinking has caused the data center to undergo drastic changes.

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Data Center Data Agile Symantec 100

Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 30, 2015

I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 16, 2015

We have an abundance of Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS), Communications-As-A-Service (CaaS), Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) and many other X-aaS systems/platforms. There’s no need to look at data center sizing, efficiency, utilization rates or power requirements to ensure a new platform can be implemented.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My instinct tells me that many of those 30 percent of CIO’s are struggling today because they haven’t taken the step forward to drive innovation within the organization, embrace new systems and help their organization’s drive new technology adoption to allow for flexible and agile service delivery for internal and external clients.

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