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Business executives want to know their company has a cloud strategy and they want the assurance that IT is executing against its goals and objectives. This, in turn, is putting added pressure to IT operations, application owners, and developers. Will the cloud deliver on its promises? Will businesses take the ...
Yesterday a bunch of smart people from industry got together with some others from the good, old U.S. Government to try to explain this here “Cloud” thing.
The list of presenters included:
Mr. Scott Charney
Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Daniel Burton
Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy
Salesforce.com
Mr. Mike Bradshaw
Director, Google Federal
Google Inc.
Mr. ...
Earlier this week, Cisco announced its intentions to end-of-life the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) at the end of the year. Cisco will continue to support CSA for another 3 years but it won’t enhance the product any longer.
Moving forward, Cisco’s endpoint security efforts will center upon AnyConnect, ...
Yesterday, Permabit released its Albireo data optimization software–a deduplication solution designed to be embedded into primary storage systems. Right now, a majority of primary storage systems do not have dedupe capabilities and, because of lengthy product cycles, it is hard to determine when they will. Now, hold that ...
The clouds are just that, cloudy. Hard to figure out what anyone is talking about, or why. I’m here to help.
There are big guys like EMC using “Journey to the private cloud….” as their moniker. They can say nothing, because they are big. The problem, as I explained ...
This topic is a bit iffy, in the sense that faulty launches in startups are the norm versus the exception–but they don’t always directly lead to ultimate failure. They are, however, a consistently misunderstood and poorly executed element that will often highlight the philosophical incorrectness of those ...
Yesterday, I hosted a panel at the Cloud Computing summit focused on cloud security for the federal government. The panel was made up of some smart folks: Alex Hart from VMware, Bob Wambach from EMC, and one of the primary authors of the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines, ...
I'm in Washington co-chairing a Cloud Computing summit along with my colleague Mark Bowker. Thus far, we've covered cloud computing drivers, virtualization, cloud computing governance/compliance, and new skill sets needed for the cloud.
The audience is made up of federal IT workers, for the most part. These folks are under the ...
Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, says: “The security industry is slowly waking up to an emerging market reality: large organisations don't want security point products; they want enterprise security technologies that align with corporate policies and business processes.”
via Cloud risks outweigh benefits | ITWeb.
As many as 17 percent of companies are interested in using virtual desktops provided by an external company, says Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via How Not to Build a Cloud - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership.
