Kristin Lewotsky
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Kristin Lewotsky is a freelance technology writer based in Amherst, NH.
IBM Tools Support Layered Data Privacy and Protection
July 23, 2020
Data today is on the move. It’s traveling from the server to the storage area network, from the enterprise into the cloud, or even to third parties. Although the IBM Z® platform protects data on the platform with pervasive encryption, the data can be vulnerable the moment it leaves the mainframe. Data can be breached […]
ArticlesStreamline Regulatory Compliance With a Hybrid Cloud
April 1, 2019
In today’s business climate, just delivering goods and services to customers is no longer enough. Amid an ongoing stream of security breaches, countries, regions and industries around the globe have established regulations governing data protection—data privacy and data security. As a result, enterprises need to demonstrate and maintain compliance around egulations such as the European […]
ArticlesCompliance Requires Layered Security
March 1, 2019
Businesses need to worry about more than just developing products and services for their customers. They need to deliver those products and services while complying with a plethora of standards and regulations governing how data can be collected, processed, stored and transferred. These standards range from highly specific documents covering niche markets like healthcare, to […]
ArticlesDevSecOps Matters for the Mainframe
January 1, 2019
Today’s customers want new services and they want them now. To remain competitive and keep up with customer needs, organizations are seeking ways to innovate rapidly around some of their most valuable assets—customer data and enterprise data. At one time, the mainframe was viewed as an isolated system. Data was often moved to a different […]
ArticlesConverting Data Into Insight With IBM Z
September 1, 2018
From banking to retail, financial services to healthcare, the world economy runs on the mainframe. Billions of transactions per second are processed around the globe, generating a treasure trove of unique, proprietary data about customers and the businesses that serve them. The essential insight mined from this data using analytics and machine learning can help […]
ArticlesDevelop a Cloud Strategy That Aligns With Business Goals
August 1, 2018
How you pursue a goal is as important to achieving it as identifying the goal in the first place. According to a study by Dominican University researchers, participants who wrote down their goals were significantly more likely to reach them. Moreover, study members who detailed the specific actions they would take and made regular progress […]
ArticlesPowerVM Preinstalled on POWER9 Facilitates Multicloud Environments
May 1, 2018
There was a time when the philosophy around hardware acquisition was based on one application per box. Today, that static, silo model is no longer sufficient to support business needs. Enterprises must optimize resource use, maximize availability, and above all, deliver customers the products and services they want as quickly as possible. Increasingly, organizations understand […]
ArticlesBlockchain Is Set to Streamline Markets and Transform Industries
May 1, 2017
Business is built on trust. The seller needs to trust the buyer to pay for goods. The buyer needs to trust that the seller will deliver those goods, and that they have the right to sell them to begin with. Financial institutions must trust one another to settle transactions. Other examples abound. To create an […]