Building and maintaining modern data centers can be a very expensive proposition, best left to the experts. For many years, data center management companies delivered co-location and managed hosting services for their customers that wanted to take advantage of access to world class data centers without having to build their own. Now that public cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is a well-established $13 billion industry, companies increasingly are looking at IaaS as a more cost effective and flexible alternative.

October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month, a time to raise public awareness, discuss public policy and highlight programs to drive advancements in cybersecurity.

Many cloud projects start simply enough: A client calls their channel partner saying, “I want to go to the cloud.” But since not every system or application is appropriate for the cloud, how should you help clients determine what should — and shouldn’t — go?

When I started at EMC two years ago, the role of partner marketing for the Americas was in transition. I had a great team and an opportunity to start with an almost blank slate. We created a new strategy, changing the way we serve our partners in the Americas. We’ve gone from executing with you to empowering you to achieve the goals you’ve set for your organization and yourself. We understand that for EMC to succeed, you have to succeed.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are not a new concept, but they have proven to be effective. In the last few years they have grown in intensity as well as in number, whereas the duration of an attack is often down to just a few hours.