InFocus Weekly Roundup: “As in life, we collect things and at some point we become burdened by the very same things we have collected.” JP Morgenthal describes the function of chargeback and showback models as Feng Shui for your compute environment.    Welcome to our newest blogger, Rachel Haines, who leads EMC Consulting’s Data Governance

If there is one element of a GRC framework upon which all else depends, it is the correct formulation of risk appetite, and the translation of appetite into tolerances, thresholds and limits that the organization must operate within. Without this, it’s simply impossible to manage risks effectively. Risk appetite can be defined as the quantity

EMC has created a new community for the GRC Eco-system – very cool! I wanted to share with the the ‘offical’ communications out of EMC on this – it represents a huge commitment to GRC and I am extremely jazzed to be a part of it  Here’s information on how the RSA Archer Community is

This week we peer through Matt’s visionary perspective about the future of home and personal health care technology ; We find out if being different, is better, when providing services to your customers, and take a look at the future of SMS in the face of newer and “cooler” social media techologies.   We get some clarity on the

Most of you know I am part of EMC’s Consulting organization and work closely with RSA and the Archer team. This week at RSA Conference in San Francisco, we are launching a very focused set of advisory services around security and risk management – including a new set of advisory services around GRC strategy, development

In my last InFocus blog post, I discussed OWASP’s approach to mobile computing risks.  I went over some of the unique risks to the mobile platform as well as reminding folks that general application security rules still apply.  With that being the case, a logical conclusion would be that introducing mobile platforms to enterprise computing

Frank Coleman speaks on the truth and its many derivatives: Which Truth Do You Want? and some less-than-best practices when visually representing data: It’s So Obvious, Why Didn’t I See It? Visual Business Intelligence. Bill Schmarzo ditches Ted and the phone booth and offers up some data science: Bill’s Most Excellent Data Scientist Adventure. Choong

Tempus Fugit. Or in other in other words ‘Time Flies‘ And how! After a very busy Q4 to end 2011, I barely had enough time to crank out a guest post on Branden William’s blog around the end of the year. It’s about the ability of virtualization to do what it does – automate things

I promised readers a follow-up to my last entry, “Look Ma, No Wires” but I thought that with the upcoming HIMSS Annual Conference and the number of people in one place who will be relying on mobile devices while away from the office, that it was a good opportunity to make people aware of the

Welcome to your weekly roundup, for the week of Friday February 10th. This week’s articles feature posts by April Reeve in addition to Yo Delmar, Robert Abate and Choong Keng Leong.  April provides valuable insight on the end of data life cycle up to, and through data deletion as well as the importance of Metadata