At the end of 2014 The Guardian wrote, “2015: The Year Businesses Recognize that Climate Change is Real”, this is because of the new trends in ranking businesses according to their climate readiness and making sure that they have “sustainability goals” going into the future. These are all new points that the market was looking at throughout the year. So, what is your business doing to keep up with the times not only from a marketing standpoint, but a customer’s perspective?

The Talent Shortage

After attending my fifth straight Gartner Symposium a couple weeks back one common theme across all five has remained consistent, CIOs still sight lack of skills as their biggest inhibitor. Working in the IT industry for over 20+ years, I’ve experienced the talent shortage firsthand. We had it in the late 80s as the PC and LAN technology entered the business, through the 90s with the dotcom era, and 2000 with virtualization. With all of these trends the skillset required needs change. Although what I listed is a small sample of technologies, the point is that the CIO’s needs are constantly changing to keep up with these trends.

In today’s ever changing landscape of Malware and network threats, visibility and control of protocols and applications, is a key element in providing a robust and manageable security posture for any organization. Cisco FirePOWER and AMP technology enables visibility and context based security across the whole network. Advanced Malware Protection or AMP for short, couples with big data analytics with a single pane of glass for management, discovering threats and keeping track of files as they are downloaded from the net or discovered on endpoints.

History of the Charles 

The Northeastern United States is where many rowers flock to train because of the concentration of high quality teams, coaches and regattas. Specifically, Boston, Massachusetts is the rowing mecca and it is all because of the history of the Charles River.

XtremIO 4.0

EMC’s XtremIO all-flash array is already the fastest growing product line in the company’s history and is the #1 flash array on the market. The fact that this was accomplished in the first 18 months of release is pretty amazing. Now with the release of version 4.0, EMC has enhanced the capabilities and increased the scalability.