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Jo Peterson

VP Cloud & Security at Clarify360

Orange County, United States

VP Cloud and Cybersecurity

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Orange County, CA
Speaking Topics: Cloud, Cybersecurity, IoT

Jo Peterson Points
Academic 0
Author 26
Influencer 656
Speaker 3
Entrepreneur 0
Total 685

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Agile 30.03
AI 30.03
Business Strategy 30.04
Change Management 30.03
Cloud 31.14
Customer Experience 30.02
Cybersecurity 30.07
Data Center 30.72
Emerging Technology 30.75
ERP 30.07
Generative AI
IoT
IT Operations
Privacy 30.08
Procurement 30.04
Security 30.07

Industry Experience

Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services

Publications

26 Article/Blogs
Partners for Your Protection: How IBM+AWS Deliver Cloud Security
Linkedln
December 11, 2024
During this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AI is probably the buzzword of the conference and IBM is all in. At the heart of IBM’s generative AI strategy is enabling customers to get the most from data across their enterprise.

As an AWS Premier Tier partner, IBM now has 24,000 AWS certifications, 21 validated service delivery programs, and mastery in 29 AWS competencies.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Multi Cloud Networking—A Must Have
Linkedln
November 25, 2024
We’re just a few short weeks away from AWS reInvent.  The 2024 AWS re:Invent conference is expected to have around 65,000 in-person attendees, plus more virtual attendees.

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference for the cloud computing community, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The 2024 conference will take place December 2–6 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Unpacking the AI Junk Drawer
Linkedln
November 18, 2024
The new survey from The Conference Board, which polled 1100 U.S. employees, finds that 56 percent of workers are using generative AI on the job, with nearly 1 in 10 employing the technology on a daily basis. Yet just 26 percent of respondents say their organization has a policy related to the use of generative AI, with another 23 percent reporting such a policy is under development.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Microsoft Copilot for Azure—Your AI Key to Letting the Light In
Linkedln
October 23, 2024
In IT we love acronyms.  An oldie but a goodie is KTLO or Keeping the Lights On.  KTLO refers to basic systems and infrastructure maintenance.  Did you know that some IT organizations spend as much as 80% of their resources and budget on simply supporting the infrastructure and apps that are already in place.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Microsoft Defender for Cloud--A Holistic View
Linkedln
October 08, 2024
Gartner forecasts spending on cloud security to grow 24% in 2024, making it the highest growth of all segments in the global security and risk management market.  Additionally, Gartner predicts that by 2027, more than 70% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives, up from less than 15% in 2023. With this increased use of cloud, organizations must invest more in technology to protect their data, applications, and infrastructure services.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Continued Innovation with Azure VMware Solution
Linkedln
September 30, 2024
Over the past four years, Microsoft and VMware have worked together closely to deliver Azure VMware Solution (AVS) to customers in 30+ Azure regions around the globe. AVS is a fully managed Microsoft service, based on VMware Cloud Foundation technologies, running on VMware validated Azure infrastructure.  The solution provides an all-inclusive range of software-defined services in computing, storage, networking, security, and cloud management.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Microsoft Fabric--Connecting the Dots
Linkedln
September 10, 2024
All of us in IT are familiar with this long time database friend and server that stores and retrieves data. SQL Server was revolutionary for its time. But one thing you can always count on in IT is change

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

AI’s Role in Identity
LinkedIn
June 28, 2024
Due to the widespread adoption of multi cloud strategies and the growing utilization of AI related programs like Large Language Models, we’re seeing the quantity of both human and machine identities growing quickly. Many of these identities require sensitive or privileged access. However, contrary to how human access to sensitive data is managed, machine identities often lack identity security controls, and therefore represent a widespread and potent threat vector ready to be exploited.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Amazon GuardDuty—Intelligent Threat Detection That Keeps Getting Better
LinkedIn
April 01, 2024
By 2028, 70% of workloads will run in the cloud according to Gartner. Today, 67% of enterprise infrastructure is now cloud-based. According to Zippia, 48% of businesses choose to store their most important data in the cloud.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Google Security Command Center Enterprise: Building a bridge between enterprise security and multi cloud protection
LinkedIn
March 15, 2024
We’ve seen an evolution of cloud security point solutions morphing into platforms like CNAPPs. The challenge is that these platforms often operate in a silo and are disconnected from broader security ops.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Shifting Left Securely with Amazon Inspector
Linkedln
January 19, 2024
There were lots of really cool announcements that came out of #reInvent2023. One of my favorites was the release of three new capabilities for Amazon Inspector. These feature releases broaden what’s possible when it comes to scanning for software vulnerabilities in cloud code.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Identity and Access Management—A Key to Modern Work and Secure Productivity
Linkedln
December 20, 2023
According to research from Zippia, 27% of U.S. employees work remotely, as of 2023. But that isn’t the full picture. 66% of U.S. employees work remotely, at least part-time. With up to 92% of employees working at least one day per week remotely, the average U.S. worker works 5.8 remote workdays per month. How, where and when we work has dramatically changed over the last 4 or 5 years.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Connecting the dots to AI Security in the Cloud—Thoughts from AWS reInvent
Linkedln
December 11, 2023
Dots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game for two players (sometimes more). It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Edouard Lucas, who called it la pipopiette. Players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between unjoined, adjacent dots.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center, Emerging Technology

Microsoft 365 for Business Security-- Features and Best Practices
LinkedIn
November 13, 2023
It feels like the world runs on email, particularly O365. In fact, 345 million people are currently using Microsoft 365 as of January 2023. That’s an enormous number of companies across every vertical.

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Tags: Cloud, Security

Digital Resilience + AI + Splunk = A Winning Hand
LinkedIn
July 21, 2023
Just about everybody heading to Vegas hopes to put a couple of dollars in a slot machine and hit the jackpot. Bad actors have that in common with Vegas gamblers—they are both hoping to win. Maybe serious gamblers, those looking for more than a quick, easy payout, have even more in common with bad actors. These savvy players are using technology to harness or hone the pattern finding expertise of artificial intelligence and apply it to their betting. They hope to beat the system with the goal of making money. Both the gambler and the bad actor are looking for an AI advantage.

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Tags: AI, Cloud, Cybersecurity

Microsoft Helping Digital Native Businesses to Shine
LinkedIn
July 19, 2023
According to Wikipedia the term Digital Native describes a person who has grown up in the information age. But in business, the term takes on a different meaning. IDC describes Digital Native Businesses (DNBs)as having a digital-first approach and tech-driven operating models. These companies that are born in the cloud - aggressively leverage new and emerging technologies, platform services, and marketplaces. DNBs grow and scale fast, disrupting industries and creating new markets.

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Tags: Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Center

Cloud is a Journey, not a Destination
LinkedIn
November 04, 2020
Remember when you were a kid and went on a family vacation with your parents in the car? If you were lucky enough to take a road trip on the Classic Route 66, you might have seen some cool sights like the Gateway Arch in St Louis or the Blue Whale in Catoosa, Oklahoma or maybe even the Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona. You of course were excited to be seeing so many cool things even if you had to be stuck in a car with your pesky siblings. Your parents of course knew you were learning new things during the whole journey.

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center

Building Forward Thinking IT Architecture with Strategic Business Intent
linkedin
May 17, 2020
Like 90,000 others, I attended Think2020 virtually this year. There were over 250 virtual labs covering everything from #AI to #Cloud to #5G. Some of the themes of the conference that resonated for me were Hybrid IT and the OpenShift messaging of “Run on Anything, Anywhere”

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Tags: AI, Cloud, 5G

The right IT infrastructure is hybrid
IBM
March 04, 2020


From time to time, we invite industry thought leaders to share their opinions and insights on current technology trends on the IBM Systems IT Infrastructure blog. The opinions in these posts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM.

Gartner forecasts worldwide public cloud revenue will grow 17 percent in 2020[1]. While it’s clear that cloud is still being rapidly adopted, on premises and private cloud are growing as well. My team and I see this on a daily basis as we visit with enterprise clients...

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Tags: Cloud

Dear CFO: Are Your Cloud Costs Out of Control? Ask IT These 4 Questions to Find Out Why
Oracle Netsuite
November 13, 2019
This article for Oracle Netsuite that discusses 4 Questions to find out why cloud costs are creeping up. Jo begins by asking 4 critical questions designed to foster constructive dialogue between CIO and CFO to help understand and contain optimal cloud spending.

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Tags: Cloud, Procurement, Business Strategy

Secure hybrid cloud with encryption everywhere on IBM z15
IBM
October 07, 2019

Securing hybrid cloud environments is a shared responsibility. IT teams are looking for reliable tools to help navigate the process. It’s ideal if these tools can scale automatically and are customizable and programmable. Tailoring security for a client’s specific environment is key. A nice-to-have is a security tool that has a certain degree of decision making baked in. Smart tools or systems like this allows for security decisions to be made in real time on behalf of the organization.

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Tags: Cloud, Privacy, Data Center

3 reasons why enterprise clients are opting for hybrid cloud
IBM
August 03, 2019

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Tags: Cloud, Data Center

VMware on AWS: A Fit for Your Customers?
Channel Futures
July 11, 2019
Many people may not realize that VMware has been a pioneer and leading innovator of “software-defined” technology for almost two decades. It is best known as a market leader in virtualization technology – the basis of software-defined servers, storage and networking – that has been the key enabler of enterprise-class private cloud infrastructure globally.

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Tags: Cloud

9 Pitfalls of Cloud Migration and How to Protect Your Customer
Channel Partners
February 28, 2019
Jo Peterson co-authored an article about the pitfalls of cloud migration and how IT professionals can avoid some of the common missteps and misconceptions that lead to poor outcomes.

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Tags: Cloud, Customer Experience, Change Management

Ericsson provides orchestration agility for service providers
linkedin
May 15, 2017
According to Forbes the Internet Of Things Market To Reach $267B By 2020. Much of the underlying platform technology that IoT will use to provide digital transformation globally will be cloud services. Cloud operators need to be agile to deliver services on a global scale. We’ve entered an era where speed is essential. Along with speed comes the need for governance. Delivering service to customers on demand is table stakes. The partners who are embracing this challenge realize that customer provisioning of cloud environments must move from weeks to minutes and service level agreements must be measured and enforced. As cloud providers move forward to meet client demand, automated orchestration at scale is a foundational need.

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Tags: Cloud, Agile

1 Media Interview
Empower Flexible, Mobile Access to Customer Data
SAP
December 05, 2019
On behalf of SAP, Jo Peterson outlines why organizations are adopting cloud ERP as a scaled subscription-based model where service support is available 24/7.

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Tags: Cloud, Emerging Technology, ERP

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Head in the Clouds (ft. Jo Peterson): Over-tooling Data is Overrated
YouTube
May 19, 2023
Over-tooling is overrated. Hear from Splunk's Tom Stoner and VP of Cloud & Security at Clarify 360, Jo Peterson, as they address auditing tools for easy data acess.

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Tags: Cloud

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Currently ranked as #5 on the Rise Global Cloud Power 100 as well as #2 on the Rise Global Cybersecurity Power 100, a Top Woman in CyberSecurity by CyberCrime Magazine and a 2019 Channel Influencer by Informa, Jo is a 2016-2020 CRN Women of the Channel Recipient. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. Followed by an audience of over 50,000 on Twitter, Jo is a featured keynote speaker on topics such as cloud architecture, procurement and management, and cloud security. In 2020, Thinkers360 listed Jo as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow on social media and Onalytica listed her as one of the Top 100 Cloud Influencers. Jo has worked with a variety of tech leaders including IBM, SAP, Oracle, Intel, Rackspace, Cisco, Dell, HP, and more.

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