Splunk started as a logfile analysis tool, a category that has now been gentrified into the SIEM category. That is how it works, but what it does is best captured by one of the company’s famous t-shirt slogans: looking for trouble. The latest evolution of the Splunk product offers timely and necessary tools that further that goal,…
This was my first time attending Slack’s annual event, and of course the 2020 edition was the first virtual version of the event. This was the best virtual event I have attended so far this year by a long way. It was both a superb experience and a great source of insight. Let us look…
We were recently asked by the press to address the question: What’s the most effective method that can be used to gain control over cloud spend? Our take: Assessing Cloud Costs Requires Context and Perspective. Cloud spend must be managed within the context of the entire IT cost ecosystem. And the costs need to be…
First note that the below is not meant to be anything that is sanctioned or even practiced by the other members of The Analyst Syndicate. This is how I conduct research. Consider it a continuation of the guidance provided in Curmudgeon. When I first joined Gartner in 2000 my only experience with its research was…
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New research seems to put us on the right path to removing one major source of risks in unattended AI systems like autonomous cars.
Facebook and Equifax Privacy Failures Put Businesses and Consumers On Notice In The Beginning In 2018, the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation GDPR laid the cornerstone for all other jurisdictions to build similar legal and regulatory data usage and privacy frameworks. GDPR’s global scope set a new level of usage obligations and privacy…
“Trans-Atlantic commercial arrangement is worth 7.17 trillion dollars.” —-Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Why did the European Court’s High Court dismantle a trillion-dollar economic arrangement between the European Union and the United States? In response,…
Following on from my first list of suggestions for remote working, here are some more, based on over a decade of experience of running diverse teams remotely. Back up your work or store it in the cloud. Or both. Leave gaps between calls to allow time to take notes, focus on the next call, go…
