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Cisco amps-up Tetration platform with better security, reduced footprint, AWS cloud option

Network World

Announced in June of last year, Cisco’s Tetration Analytics is a turnkey analytics package that gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes the information using big data and machine learning. Per Cisco once in place, the Tetration platform learns its enterprise environment and any policies IT has in place.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Health care data startup Truveta, which emerged from stealth mode last year , announced Dave Heiner as chief policy officer and general counsel. based company, most recently as a strategic policy advisor.

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Identify yourself for MIM - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

MIM, as a reminder, is when you secure your enterprise data, and where policy actually follows the data. If we have built our system correctly, we have our data that’s sits in our enterprise data stores that we make available through the use of APIs. Policy and corresponding encryption. Windows Phone.

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Ostrichitis! - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

I’ve had the chance to be on stage a couple of times in the last month and one of my favorite things to ask is how many people work at companies that have a policy for BYOD (Bring your own device). I then asked how many of those policies forbid BYOD…and I had between 10 and 20% of the room keep their hands up. Windows Phone.

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The CTO made me do it - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

Let’s not forget that you also have Windows Phone OS out there and RIM hasn’t stopped trying to be relevant. The secret sauce for BYOD is an AUP (Acceptable Use policy), but you still need the same policy if they are corporate owned devices. Windows Phone. You need to involve and partner with everyone. Categories.

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Pots of Gold - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

It is usually in response to an IT department clamping down via policy on what’s allowed and employees rebelling by finding ways around the policy, even if that means they could be fired. A particular device or technology such as cloud or big data, become tools that IT use to help the business achieve their goals.

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Free money?or is it? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

If you aren’t careful how you implement your policies you could start facing employees who burn themselves out rather quickly because they have a device addiction that they don’t know how to kick. One company has actually made it an official policy that you must take a vacation where you disconnect all electronic devices. The employee?

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