Archive for December, 2009
With all the focus on economic hardship across businesses - strained budgets, delayed projects, fewer staff and so on - I'm more than a little puzzled at why more users would not turn to a 'shared risk/shared reward' type of approach. Twice in recent weeks I have been in ...
Finally, Symantec and Amazon can now explore a roadmap for the future. For example, it would be great if I could manage an EC2 security or storage management client as another node through my existing enterprise management systems. If Symantec and Amazon develop this option, it could ...
For years I have been a prolific photographer of Data Centres all over the world. I have hundreds of images, some brilliant, some out of focus and under-exposed, (I am a data centre guy, not a professional photographer). I thought that I might publish some of the better ones with ...
While the technology industry is ga-ga over Cloud Computing, corporate CIOs seem less enthused. Early indications from ESG's 2010 IT Spending survey indicate that cloud computing initiatives and priorities are near the bottom of the list. Why? Security and compliance concerns, lack of control, and technology ...
Information security events and vulnerabilities haunted large organizations in 2009. New security technologies should help security-conscious organizations, but 2010 will likely be a very difficult year. ESG expects a steady increase in the volume and sophistication of security threats as well as a major event next year that makes ...
In developing UCS, Cisco benefited from a clean slate, good server talent hired from the established players, and virtualization expertise from partner VMware, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Brian Babineau.
via Cisco's UCS powers Taser police video service - Cisco, cloud computing, police, Taser - ARN.
Confidential data (i.e. regulated data, private data, company confidential data, PII, etc.) is everywhere — on laptops, thumb drives, file servers, and enterprise storage devices. This also means that confidential data is at risk everywhere. In other words, my organization could suffer a data breach as a ...
When it comes to information security, networking giant Cisco seems like it's at a crossroads. In 2009, Cisco acquired cloud security provider ScanSafe for $183 million and announced security products and services for the iPhone earlier this year. That said, 2009 seems to be highlighted by noteworthy ...
An e-mail archiving company, ZL Technologies, Inc., has sued, been dismissed, and re-sued Gartner – basically claiming that ZL’s placement in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant” has caused the company damage – namely, that since Gartner places ZL in the “niche” spot, large customers don’t consider them, although the company contends their ...
The reality is that IT operations and application owners are at odds. Application owners would like IT to over-provision resources, run on the highest performing tier of infrastructure, and grant immediate access to resources. IT operations, on the other hand, is constrained by existing investments, limited ...
