Compliance 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 […]
ArticlesIBM Infrastructure Plays a Critical Role in Cloud, AI and Security
February 1, 2019
Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and security all have underpinnings in infrastructure—the servers, storage and software that power an organization. A purpose-built architecture is critical to achieving the performance needed for current and future business requirements. “Technology alone can’t transform a company, but it’s a very essential ingredient in business transformation,” says Tom Rosamilia, senior vice […]
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 […]
ArticlesThe Privacy Regulation Inflection Point
January 1, 2019
Congratulations! We’re all in a growth area—the ever expanding footprint of privacy compliance regulations around the world. We’re now about eight months into General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being live, and the world is still turning. Up ahead, we see the California Consumer Privacy Act due to go live in early 2020, along with Brazil’s […]
ArticlesThe Benefits of Analytics and Machine Learning on IBM Z
September 1, 2018
Enterprises have vast amounts of high-value, sensitive data on IBM Z*. With recent advances in machine learning technology, it’s the right time to extract key insights from this data and monetize it. Given its sensitive nature, it only makes sense to leverage that data in place. Enterprises can also minimize costly data movement and maintain […]
Creating a Self-Managing Mainframe
September 1, 2018
Hybrid IT environments, along with IT leaders and their teams, are facing more challenges than ever because of digital transformation efforts to add new or improved services for customers. The challenges are coming from all sides, and IT teams are often backed into a corner, left to respond reactively to dynamic changes, customer situations, threats […]
ArticlesThe GDPR Is New, but the Requirements Aren’t
July 1, 2018
Data breach studies are revealing shocking statistics. In a 2017 study (ibm.co/2Bir60B), IBM and Ponemon Institute found that the average time it took to discover a data breach was 191 days. In addition, a recent Protenus study (bit.ly/2jUv7gI) found that it took one healthcare organization over four years to discover a data breach. With digital […]
ArticlesRabobank Transforms Its Payments System With DevOps on IBM Z
July 1, 2018
When global financial services provider Rabobank decided to renovate its payments system four years ago, it took a broad view of the project. The bank assessed its hardware, its payments processing requirements and the need for end-to-end testing of its processes. The result was a payments system built on IBM Z* using DevOps to provide […]
ArticlesCentralized Cloud and Security Management Empowers IT
April 1, 2018
For IBM Power Systems clients, transforming their virtualized data center into a self-service private cloud and protecting it with automated security management just became an easier and more powerful proposition. IBM has introduced important new capabilities by advancing IBM Power Security Center (PowerSC) and Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC) software. Both were recently announced at Think […]
ArticlesIBM Framework Helps Clients Prepare for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation
March 1, 2018
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, impacting most every organization—no matter the location—that deals with European Union (EU) data subjects. “Whether an organization has a physical presence in the EU doesn’t matter, even if you’re just marketing to, profiling or collecting information about EU individuals, citizens, residents or visitors. The […]