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Putting a Finger on ATM Security
When I landed at Warsaw Chopin Airport last week to speak at a Hitachi Information Forum, I noticed several ATMs with Finger Vein readers. This was not surprising since the first Finger Vein ATM was...
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Digital Transformation with Application Aware Flash
One of the outcomes for Digital Transformation should be to achieve cost savings and accelerate time to market by rethinking operations and processes. In other words, it is not just about the...
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Could HCP provide “Durable Medium” for e-payment?
The Payment Services Directive[(PSD, 2007/64/EC) is an EU Directive, administered by the European Commission (Directorate General Internal Market) to regulate payment services and payment service...
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Software Defined or Converged Infrastructure
In the past few years, a lot has been written about software defined infrastructure. The main benefit of software-defined products is supposed to provide flexibility and the cost advantages of using...
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Revisiting Operation Utah
Last August I had the opportunity to speak at a Hitachi CIO Conference that was held in Danang, Vietnam. Since this was the area of operations during my tour in Vietnam, I took a few days to visit some...
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What Was the Data Telling Us About The U.S. Presidential Election?
Last week at this time we saw the most stunning presidential election ever in the United States. Contrary to every opinion poll, contrary to every news publication in the nation and internationally,...
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IT trends for 2017
“The year of the Rooster teaches the lessons of order, scrutiny and strategic planning.” Every year at this time I along with many other bloggers try to identify the coming trends for the following...
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Data Center Trends for 2017: Second in Four Part Series
Hitachi Data Systems recently sponsored a Forbes survey of 573 C-level officers from organizations with revenues from $500 million and up across a range of industries and geographies. The purpose was...
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IT Trends for 2017: Third in a Four Part Series
I have divided up what I see as IT trends for 2017 into three sections. Data Center trends, Technology Trends, and IT/OT/IOT trends. In my first post in this series I gave an overview of 10 trends for...
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IT Trends for 2017: Last of a Four Part Series
In my prior two posts I went into detail about Data Center Trends and Technology Trends. In this last post I will be discussing Smart IT and IoT. 1. Smart IT; the integration of IT and...
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Transformation in Enterprise storage in 2016
As 2016 winds down, we take a look at what has happened. In addition to all the surprises in the political world we have seen some major changes in the world of enterprise storage. Big changes have...
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Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Better 2017
This will be my last post for 2016, and I would like to wish you all a very happy holiday season and my hope for a better 2017 for the technology industry. I realize that this year has been very...
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Looking Forward to 2017 with Hope and Optimism
Happy New Year 2017! This is the year of the Fire Rooster, the sign of dawn and awakening. This is also a year for hope and optimism. Despite all the turmoil in 2016, with terrorist attacks, identity...
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IoT Security Exposures: Mirai is now.
The Kanji Mi means not yet, and Raimeans become. In English this would be translated as “The Future”. Mirai has become all too familiar as the name of a Botnet attack that caused internet outages in...
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Digital Transformation Can Resolve the Productivity Paradox
The Productivity ParadoxOver the last 10 years, the exponential growth and power of technology have brought some fascinating, if notmind-bending, opportunities. Machines talk to one another with...
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Is RegTech the new FinTech?
Last April, I posted a blog on Digital transformation in the Financial Industry where I talked about the impact of Financial Technology (FinTech) startups on the financial industry. FinTechs use...
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Digital Debris and Information Governance
Digital data is exploding all around us with exponential growth ahead as more IoT applications come on line. Many companies are storing petabytes of data and some are looking at exabytes in the near...
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Where does Storage line up in the SSD Supply picture?
Toward the end of last year there were many reports of NAND shortages. (NAND is the technology behind non-volatile flash memory). There were reports from The Register, tom’s Hardware, storage...
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Proprietary APIs, Are Unacceptable in Today’s Data Center
EMC Centera is becoming obsoleteaccording to a report published by Gartner in June of last year. Gartner recommended that organizations make immediate plans to migrate off of the EMC Centera platform....
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Should IT Departments Be Worried About GDPR?
This past week I was in the Nordics talking to customers from Sweden, Norway and Finland, about Data Governance. This is a topic of high interest due to a new EU regulation around data privacy which is...
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