By Pru Hyer Cisco Live was recently held in Orlando, Fla. and we were delighted to support long-term partner Cisco at the show. We work closely with Cisco to make it easier to protect, manage and optimize data on Cisco Data Center infrastructure solutions, including Cisco UCS, Cisco HyperFlex and FlashStack. At the show we […]
By Nigel Tozer At this point, you’re probably thinking, “How is the soccer (or football – I’m British) World Cup Final anything like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)???” The actual answer is that it’s a lot more like it than you would think. Both share the need for planning, strategy and the right tactics […]
By Matt Tyrer and Nigel Tozer Along with most everyone rushing to update their privacy policies and reaffirm your consent, the “other” copies of your data have begun to creep into the discussion, such as a piece that appeared on The Register. Wait? What other copies?!? You know, all those secondary copies of data that you […]
By Nigel Tozer With a recent, but less publicized, executive order from President Donald Trump, things are happening on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean with regard to personal data. And it looks as though the U.S. and the European Union (EU) have varying ideas about which direction to take. We all leave a digital trail […]
By Nigel Tozer If you use the cloud, then your GDPR strategies must include cloud data management. The good news is that these very important elements can be aligned and deliver benefits to the organization’s overall data strategy and feed directly into digital transformation programs. In the initial three blogs of this GDPR data breach series, […]
By Nigel Tozer In the first part of this two-part blog, I looked at the importance of understanding your unstructured data from a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) perspective – what you have, where it is, its content and what its lifecycle should look like. All of this is extremely difficult with unstructured data, due to its very […]
By Nigel Tozer In a previous blog, I talked about how data breaches – possibly the biggest fears in a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulated world – don’t always happen in the data centre. In this blog, I’m taking a look at what you can do if that’s where they do happen, and how to help to reduce the […]
By Nigel Tozer Last year was marked as the year of ransomware and data breaches, with both topics making the headlines in mainstream media. Also making news was the topic of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that, to some degree, links these two topics together. Laptops, not data centers, are often the entry-point into an […]
By Nigel Tozer This blog was also published at https://betanews.com Here are my predictions for what will happen in a world when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is “live” – out in the wild so to speak. The European Union’s mythical caged dragon of GDPR is set loose to wreak havoc upon mere mortal humans […]
By Nigel Tozer This isn’t another story about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, although it is where I’ll start. With the recent revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, it’s easy to forget that Facebook was born from a dispute. Who was telling the truth decided its fate, and as we all know, that decision fell in […]
By Chris Gondek Data has evolved. Until recent, data was in the basement, gathering dust on tapes and old servers, regarded as a necessary byproduct of doing business in the digital economy. In recent years, this has changed with data becoming a top priority for businesses. Recognising the potential of their data, organisations have awarded […]
By Nigel Tozer A huge majority of organisations around the world are failing to make even fundamental General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) preparations, with only 11 percent even understanding what constitutes personal data within their organisation, according to the findings of a globally-sourced survey by Commvault. Considering that being able to clearly identify what personal […]
By Commvault This is the fifth blog in a six-part series. Catch up on previous blogs. A five-point plan to act on Business requirements coupled with regulatory upheaval, embodied by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), are taking IT organizations to a tipping point where they must take a much more proactive approach to understanding and […]
By Commvault Data – and data protection – took on a new role in 2017. IT leadership looked harder at data management due to news headlines of ransomware attacks, demands for IT efficiency and the looming GDPR deadline. How will data protection change in 2018? As 2017 draws to a close, our Solutions Marketing team […]
By Commvault Commvault GO 2016 set an extremely high bar for us. The challenge for this year was set: deliver a greater customer experience. Did we meet this challenge? The answer is a resounding yes. This year we doubled our audience size, tripled our content and expanded our global presence. But while growing the show […]
As the recent Strata Data Conference demonstrated, the discussion of how Big Data, AI, machine learning and other types of data analytics can be used to mine enterprise data for insights that drive better business outcomes has moved from IT department meetings to the boardroom.
By Nigel Tozer As someone who’s personally been on a lengthy General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) journey, as both part of the GDPR team working on our own compliance and as a public speaker on GDPR, one topic seems to generate more fear than others: it’s the Right to Be Forgotten. Or as it’s become […]
By John Gladstone As everyone involved in the collection, protection, storage and use of personal data is well aware, The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect May 25, 2018. Many healthcare organisations are wrestling with compliance and establishing a cohesive and rigorous response to the challenges. Although the new GDPR applies to all domains […]