FEATURE: ANALYTICS
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The company says in time, more data will
live in ‘hot’ or ‘warm’ tiers, where value
can easily be extracted and with this shift
organisations must leverage the latest tools
of extraction and the storage models that
allow these tools to work most effectively.
While data is the fuel driving today’s AI
revolution, not all data value is easily
accessible. Pure Storage says without
fast, easy access, data becomes an
organisation’s most expensive asset rather
than its most valuable.
The company says AI needs to reach
more enterprises faster and provide value
immediately. It is working with Cisco to
make this a reality for customers with AIRI,
the industry’s first solution to simplify AI-at-
scale, powered by the NVIDIA DGX-1.
Using analytics to meet
security needs
In addition to using analytics to drive forward
business innovation, the analysis of data can
also be used to address security concerns.
Citrix, for instance, has enhanced its
analytics offering with a new analytics
service which will simplify IT infrastructure
and provide visibility into company-wide
user and entity behaviour, system security,
performance and operations.
Pure Storage is helping customers make
the most of data with products such as
FlashStack with FlashBlade
to dynamically balance the needs of users to
have rapid access to data with IT’s need to
secure and govern the environment.
This new service securely aggregates and
correlates user interaction with applications,
devices, networks and data across Citrix’s
suite of products and cloud services to help
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flows to meet their security and oversight
obligations under several security standards
and regulations including HIPAA, Sarbanes-
Oxley and GDPR.
“Companies must focus on knowing where
their data is [and] who has access to it and
implementing appropriate technical and
organisational security controls,” said Peter
Lefkowitz, Chief Privacy and Digital Risk
Officer, Citrix.
“The Citrix Analytics service helps our
customers design security into their systems
and monitor the security of their data on an
ongoing basis.”
Using Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence to detect anomalous behaviour
and potential threats, Citrix is now able
to deliver actionable intelligence from the
information gathered via its cloud services
and on-premises products to help customers
proactively identify and manage internal
and external threats. detect and prevent malicious activity and
data exfiltration. With an end-to-end view of the location
of and access to data, Citrix Analytics also
allows organisations to monitor and manage
data movement across endpoints, the data
centre, mobile, hybrid and multi-clouds. In a closed-loop system, the service uses
data about application and document
access, device usage and network traffic to
build unique and comprehensive visibility
into user and entity or ‘thing’ behaviour,
enabling context-based security controls.
Citrix Analytics enables customers to adopt
a risk-based security model, allowing them This visibility into data logging and access
requests helps customers understand data The behavioural insights this service delivers
gives organisations a proactive way to
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