Security and Privacy
ESG is pleased to kick off 2012 with a new video series titled Behind the Findings where we will discuss research highlights and conclusions as we publish our research reports. This is a new offering for ESG Research Subscription clients to view at your convenience, on-demand.
In this first edition of ...
It’s now February although you’d never know it from the balmy winter here in Boston. Aside from Valentine’s Day, February is significant because it is when security geeks from around the world get together in San Francisco for the RSA Conference.
The show doesn’t start until 2/27 but you can feel ...
The high-end of the firewall market has really been dominated by two companies: Crossbeam Systems (with Check Point Software) and Juniper Networks. Over the past few years, these two firms won most of the high revenue/high margin enterprise and service provider deals.
Of course, others took notice and ...
At the beginning of WWI, battlefield tactics had not advanced much since the U.S. Civil War. The general goal was to continually advance on the enemy with waves of infantry attacks and eventually break through the lines by overwhelming enemy defenses.
It didn’t take long until both sides ...
ESG research indicates that many enterprise organizations have been targeted by and are vulnerable to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Why? Many existing security tools cannot detect or remediate APTs as they evolve within corporate networks. Addressing sophisticated attacks demands a new class of next-generation threat management tools offering wide-angle visibility, ...
What do analysts have to say about it? Here the takeaway from Jon Oltsik, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group:
"Delivering applications to mobile users at a large scale requires a fresh approach to architecting wired and wireless networks. Continuing to treat them as separate access networks doesn't make business sense as ...
As part of our annual IT Spending Intentions survey, ESG asks IT professionals about overall spending trends for the coming year. Our 2012 IT Spending Intentions survey is set to be published soon, and I got a peak at the data recently. Like other analyst firms, ESG ...
Like other analyst firms, ESG conducts research on IT Spending Intentions annually. The latest 2012 report will be published soon, but in the meantime, I’ve taken a look at the data that will be included. One of the things we track is IT hiring plans in all ...
Data center consolidation and server virtualization are creating data centers of massive scale, and thus radically changing the data center environment. Unfortunately, legacy data center networking equipment was not designed for this type of scale and dynamic use case. ESG calls this state data center networking ...
I've written many blogs about the recently-published ESG Research Report, U.S. Advanced Persistent Threat Analysis, but there is a lot of data I haven't detailed. Since I can talk faster than I can type, ESG just posted this video that highlights the report data and some of its most important ...
