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Jack Poller

Jack Poller

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Principle Cyber Security Industry Analyst, expert at leading Marketing, Engineering & Technology functions to deliver programs that translate strategy into actions to trigger growth for technology-led companies.

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 18h

The enterprise IT perimeter is dead. @1Password knows it. Their Extended Access Management secures the messy reality of modern work.
My new piece explores their strategic pivot: from "the people of no" to enabling productivity.
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#Cybersecurity #IdentitySecurity #EAM #XFD14

Beyond the Vault: 1Password’s Strategic Pivot to Extended Access Management

The enterprise IT perimeter dissolved years ago, taking with it any illusion that security teams can dictate which applications employees use or which

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 23h

Pure Storage at #CFD24: "Storage silos are why you're drowning in spreadsheets"

Their fix? Fusion V2's fleet management + automated presets + drift detection

Result: One control plane for all arrays. Define configs once, enforce everywhere.

Deep dive:

Why Enterprise Storage Is Still Stuck in 2010—And How Pure Storage Plans to Fix It

At Cloud Field Day, Pure Storage laid out a case that most enterprises already know to be true: traditional storage architecture is fundamentally broken. But rather than simply pointing out the problem, Pure demonstrated how its Enterprise Data Cloud—powered by the newly redesigned Pure Fusion V2—ai

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 2d

Israel just recalled 700 Chinese cars from its military fleet because they're mobile intelligence platforms, not cars with connectivity.

The IDF couldn't to sterilize the surveillance systems.

The problem isn't just Chinese cars. It's every connected vehicle.

My analysis:

Why Israel Just Banned 700 Chinese Cars from Its Military—And What It Means for Security

In early November, the Israeli Defense Forces made a decision that sent ripples through defense and cybersecurity circles worldwide: withdraw every

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

If 92% of cyberattacks touch DNS, why not make it your first line of defense? "It's always DNS" isn't just a troubleshooting meme anymore — it's a security opportunity.

My latest: turning DNS from problem into protection 🔒
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#XFD14

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

HPE wants to help customers gain intelligence about their entire body of unstructured data

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

HPE using GPU Direct and RDMA to accelerate S3-type object storage

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

Infrastructure isn't just software. It isn't just hardware. It's complete systems.

Here's part of HPE's solution

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

The marketing product name translator between HPE and Broadcom for virtualization

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

How are customers addressing their virtualization challenge?

HPE (via Gartner and ESG) says:

75% are evaluating options, 56% are investigating hypervisor alternatives

#CFD243

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 14d

We're in the age of AI, but we're still talking about virtualization because that's the heart of the environment.

What's the virtualization challenge?

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 are marketing terminology for the mishmash of continuous day-to-day work of the IT practitioner, and OpsRamp helps with the "Day 2" monitoring, maintenance, and remediation of your hybrid cloud environment.

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

Looking into the Morpheus self-service capabilities

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

HPE/Morpheus' prime purpose is to deliver the self-service capabilities for that which makes a cloud a cloud

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

HPE CloudOps Software: the value prop is to cover all the bases - Day 0 - Day N hybrid cloud operations

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

kicking off day 2 of Cloud Field Day with Brad Parks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise discussing enabling a hybrid cloud operating model with HPE

Join us live at

HPE Presents at Cloud Field Day 24 | Tech Field Day

HPE Presents at Cloud Field Day 24

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 15d

Oxide Computers: Co-Founder Steve Tuck says it's not hardware, it's not software, it's a co-designed hardware and software system.

With the emphasis on system.

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 16d

Interesting Tidbit - Among other SLAs, Pure Storage has a Ransomware SLA: will ship a replacement array and an FTE so that you can take your infected array offline for forensic investigation.

#CFD24

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 16d

The blockchain was supposed to revolutionize trust. Instead, attackers turned it into unkillable malware infrastructure.

EtherHiding stores malicious code on Ethereum/BNB Smart Chain—making it impossible to take down.

The Unkillable Threat: How Attackers Turned Blockchain Into Bulletproof Malware Infrastructure

The blockchain was supposed to revolutionize trust. Instead, it's revolutionizing cybercrime. Every foundational principle that makes blockchain

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 17d

Why do so few AI pilots reach production?

The real obstacles blocking enterprise AI adoption - from hidden cloud costs (one company: $12M vs $1.2M projected) to data security paralysis.

Plus: How engineered systems are bridging "The AI Chasm"

#AI #EnterpriseAI #AIIFD3

From Prototype to Production: Solving the Enterprise AI Deployment Problem

Every week brings a new foundation model, a breakthrough service, or a promising AI capability. For enterprise teams, this relentless pace creates a paralyzing paradox: the fear of committing to today’s technology when tomorrow’s might be better.

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 22d

Your expensive GPUs are sitting idle waiting for data.

The bottleneck in AI workloads isn't compute—it's data access speed. @Hammerspace delivers data at the speeds AI demands.

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#AI #DataInfrastructure #MachineLearning #GPUs #EnterpriseTech #AIIFD3

Why Your GPUs Are Waiting: The Data Speed Problem in AI Workloads

Everyone's racing to secure the latest GPUs. But here's what most organizations miss: without data delivered at the speeds AI workloads demand, those expensive GPUs sit idle, waiting.

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 22d

Your expensive GPUs are sitting idle waiting for data.

The bottleneck in AI workloads isn't compute—it's data access speed. @Hammerspace delivers data at the speeds AI demands.

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#AI #DataInfrastructure #MachineLearning #GPUs #EnterpriseTech #AIIFD3

Why Your GPUs Are Waiting: The Data Speed Problem in AI Workloads

Everyone's racing to secure the latest GPUs. But here's what most organizations miss: without data delivered at the speeds AI workloads demand, those expensive GPUs sit idle, waiting.

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 22d

The endpoint moved to the browser. Your security tools didn't.

Legacy SWGs & EDR can't see inside the browser—attackers are exploiting this blind spot with evasive assembly attacks.

Time to adopt Browser Detection & Response 🔒

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#XFD14 @getsquarex

The Endpoint Has Moved to the Browser — Your Security Tools Haven't

Your users aren't downloading files to their desktops anymore. They're not running local applications. They're working in Google Docs, Salesforce, Slack,

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 23d

Buying GPUs and AI hardware is easy. Building the platform layer isn't.

The AI Infrastructure Paradox: When Buying GPUs Is Just the Beginning

The AI infrastructure market is entering a new phase. Early momentum centered on acquiring compute power—specifically GPU clusters—but enterprises are discovering that ownership alone doesn't deliver value.

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Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 29d

Microsoft wants to coin the term "vibe hunting" for threat hunting using Security Copilot AI agents and capabilities.

Is that good or bad?

#TFDx #TFDxMSSec25 #Microsoft #Security

Jack Poller @poller.bsky.social · 29d

Security Copilot example: The graph database exposes the (potential) blast radius of an event

#TFDx #TFDxMSSec25 #Microsoft #Security