Both HPE and Dell EMC announced triple digit growth of hyperconverged solutions in their latest quarterly results. Nutanix more than doubled quarterly revenue year over year. VMWare VSAN, barely 3 years old, has crossed over the 10,000 customer mark. Companies are clearly adopting hyperconvergence ...

It appears Wannacry may have gotten people looking at the SMB functions in Samba on Linux as well.  A code-execution bug was detected in all versions of Samba 3.5.0 (released March 2010) and onwards.  It is CVE-2017-7494 and there is already a Metasploit module available for attacking Linux servers ...

When an otherwise routine crypto cash-grab becomes international news, it can make the most seasoned of us pause momentarily in reflection. At its core – WannaCry isn’t anything special. It has your usual components of a ransomware attack – the Bitcoin buy, scary pop-ups and flutter. It has the ...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation was approved on April 14, 2016 and will come into enforcement on May 25, 2018.  This timeline leaves little time to perform the work necessary to avoid the stiff 4% penalty (4% of total revenue).  Additionally, New York State has implemented a recent ...

“I’ll be back…” A piece of monologue most of us recognize, whether or not we know where it originated. Some of us might even attempt to mimic the hint of a German accent, which graced the original line. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator. 1984. The basic plot of the story: machines become ...

So…it’s happened… Last year I sat on a panel at our Sayer’s Curio event and was asked about my thoughts on IT security, cloud, and specifically where we were headed with the Internet of Things (IoT).  Admittedly, my response was probably a little over the top, and deserving of the few strange looks ...