Recently I was participating on a panel at the Data Center Summit in San Francisco. The panel consisted of Michael Rechtin, moderator from Baker McKenzie, with additional panelist Jason O’Connell from Infinity SDC, as well as panelists from Equinix and Structure Research.
In the data center world, we read and hear so much about new technologies. We strive for the best new design criteria, appropriate tier rating, and PUE.
Hybrid clouds are complicated. When you’re moving workloads between public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises locations, you need to maintain management and control of your data, applications, and services to reflect a high standard of data monitoring, security, and authentication.
Even after decades of collective efforts to simplify data center management, many IT and facilities teams still feel that they are struggling just to keep up with the rapid rates of change and staggering growth.
All too often security is discussed primarily in the context of threats that come from the outside. Yes, cybercriminals and other outside threats are rightfully a key focus when it comes to data center security, but focusing solely on them dangerously ignores the potential threats and vulnerabilities from within: endusers and even us, the venerable but not invulnerable IT professionals.