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GDPR: WHAT YOU
NEED TO KNOW
Find out how to tackle
the unavoidable
burden of GDPR
SECURELY
MONITORING NETWORKS
Expert opinion on the best
ways to work securely within a
multi-cloud environment
A HEALTHY
SOLUTION
How a hospital trust
is better managing
confidential patient data
DEPLOYING SCALABLE SOLUTIONS
XtraDesktop has partnered with Dutch IT service provider
Tintri to enhance the quality of its Desktop-as-a-Service
offer to customers. Tintri has supplied XtraDesktop with the
ability to radically transform its DaaS services to include
scalability, simplified management and faster on-boarding.
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EDITOR’S NOTE
W
elcome to the first ever edition of
Intelligent CIO Europe. We are
delighted to launch a brand new
Information Technology magazine focusing
on how the latest innovations are shaping
Europe as countries embark on their digital
transformation journeys.
To launch the magazine, our first cover story
focuses on a Tintri solution adopted by
XtraDesktop. Tintri provided XtraDesktop with
a scalable solution to assist the company in
improving its Desktop-as-a-Service offering.
The partnership has proven to be successful
as it has allowed XtraDesktop to work more
efficiently, enabling it to predict capacity
requirements for upcoming projects. The
customer was confident that Tintri would
be the right vendor for its requirements
because of the company’s flexibility as a
solution provider.
We further explore customer satisfaction in
one of our case studies where an NHS trust
in the UK utilised security solutions offered
by McAfee. County Durham and Darlington
NHS Foundation Trust found that it was
able to manage patient data more securely
and develop an improved awareness of
information entering and exiting its data
platforms by using McAfee’s solution. As a
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result, the trust was extremely satisfied with
the outcome of the partnership.
Data protection or, more specifically,
the use of biometrics, is the focus of
our ‘Editor’s Question’ for this month.
The question posed to CIOs was: ‘What
advancements for biometric security do
you predict for 2018?’ We bring you three
responses from CIOs from BeyondTrust,
Aeriandi and Intercede.
Morey J Haber from BeyondTrust
believes that biometrics can be used for
authentication and authorisation purposes
when the two operate individually. Tom
Harwood from Aeriandi said voice biometrics
is an area that will thrive in 2018, allowing
companies to identify a call hacker’s voice.
While Richard Parris from Intercede said
that we are all likely to notice a change in
how existing operating system providers
will look more towards safeguarding core
authentication systems.
To round off our first edition, our ‘Get To Know’
feature sees Stephen Moore, Chief Security
Strategist at Exabeam, tell us about his
management techniques and he also lets us in
on how he likes to unwind outside the office.
I hope you enjoy the inaugural edition of
the magazine and if you are interested in
contributing to any future issues, please do
not hesitate to get in touch with me at:
[email protected].
Alix Pressley
Editor
Safeguarding data is a heavily debated topic
for businesses currently, with the upcoming
GDPR government regulations coming into
play on May 25. We take a look at how
companies can process their data securely to
comply with what is expected of them and
avoid penalties.
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