Determining the right multi-cloud approach

IT infrastructure is expanding across an almost bewildering array of connected environments, including traditional on-premises systems, private and public cloud, and increasingly edge cloud. That’s a lot to keep track of, let alone manage effectively, and it could lead to indecision over what to connect next, and how. Most organizations today are juggling an assortment…

Learning from Experience: 5 Critical Success Factors for CIAM Passwordless Projects

The move to passwordless customer authentication should be considered carefully. The benefits of passwordless are clear. Passwordless done right improves both security and customer experience (CX) at the same time. However, like any modification to an authentication system, many factors exist that lead to the success or failure of a transition to passwordless authentication. Where…

Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

Among those ranked in the 59th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Plus, Canada’s most powerful supercomputer and Dell’s HPC at the edge.  Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy Global energy company…

5 challenges for securing the future

Information security has been an intriguing part of our past, is a critical part of our present, and will be a defining factor in our future. There are actions that must be addressed at the micro/individual level and challenges we must collaboratively address as an industry moving forward. The economics of security are clear: “There…

7 tools for mastering organizational listening

Of the skills business leaders have to master, organizational listening — not just listening, but organizational listening — is, for most leaders, most of the time, in most situations, the most essential. The art of organizational listening Google “how to listen” and, in approximately .023 seconds (depending on bandwidth), you’ll find yourself inundated with a…

Industry clouds lay foundation for innovation

At Cleveland Clinic, CIO Matthew Kull is seeking to marry two vastly different disciplines: medicine and marketing. He’s succeeding with the help of a new industry cloud that takes care of essential tasks for healthcare providers while enabling Cleveland Clinic to look at patients through a marketing lens. “Patients have healthcare records, but they are…

Bionic Eye, Disease Control, Time Crystal Research Powered by IO500 Top Storage Systems

In what’s quickly becoming the de facto benchmarking standard for HPC storage, the IO500 named several Dell-based systems including those from CSIRO in Australia, Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Stanford University in the US. These supercomputers power exciting innovations in deep learning, disease control, and physics—think bionic eyes, DNA sequencing for infectious disease research,…

Digital Twin Use Races Ahead at McLaren Group

Driving 200+ miles an hour, Formula 1 racing cars built by the UK’s McLaren Group have a lot more in common today with fruit flies (a favorite among researchers with an accelerated lifespan of one to two weeks) than cheetahs (the fastest land animal). The company is applying winning insights from rapid, data-driven, evolutionary models…