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Earlier today, Nicira publicly emerged as a company from stealth mode with more than just an idea, but with a product and several customers actually using it. While many find that approach old school, I like the fact that they are more than just PowerPoint slides and buzzword bingo press ...
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 ...
This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite. It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the new Riverbed technologies. To me, the really cool part of Granite is how it ...
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 ...
Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab Review -- including its new "OnePass" technology and its ability ...
From 1965 to yesterday, the definition of IT has really been “to automate the knowledge worker tasks of days gone by.”  It’s never really been “to enable the intellectual power of all those who have come before, and all those who are about to join us.” That’s about ...
IBM announced today (January 31, 2012) its intent to purchase privately held Worklight. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, New York, Worklight markets software and systems for developing and deploying mobile applications. They support all the major mobile platforms - iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry -natively. Worklight ...
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 ...
A few of today’s releases (and some I missed!) for LegalTech 2012.  Believe it or not, the best is (still) “yet to come.”  ...Think bigger! Software AD Summation upguns Summation with scalable ECA and new front-end processing from AccessData’s FTK engine, full AccessData integration and predictive coding on the roadmap--see our brief ...
As organizations continue to consolidate data centers and increase their use of server virtualization technology, IT departments are forced to respond by building out massively scalable data center network environments. However, are data center networks evolving fast enough to survive (in current form) in a rapidly changing world? Jon ...