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 Now that Big Data has become a household name, 2014 will be the year companies demand solid proof that data can help their decision-making and their bottom line. As the entire web becomes a seamlessly connected data warehouse, I predict that organizations will have the power at their f...Dec. 13, 2013 12:52 PM EST Reads: 419 |
 We discussed my belief that the nines (99.99…%) are more marketing than the real deal today - What do you think? The market and tools used to measure your uptime immature or do not really exist. The concept of availability in the cloud is determined by the level of responsibility and l...Dec. 13, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,013 |
 SecuritySolutionsWatch.com: Thank you for joining us today, Bryan. If you wouldn’t mind, please tell us a little bit about your background and your role at HP.
Bryan Coapstick: As the Director of Mobile Innovation, I am responsible for ensuring that HP’s mobility initiatives successfu...Dec. 13, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 946 |
 Explores three ways to help development teams bear the burden of security: use pen test results to harden the application, leverage service virtualization for security scenarios, & adopt policy-driven development to help engineers understand and satisfy management’s security expectatio...Dec. 13, 2013 11:45 AM EST Reads: 957 |
 In a recent IDG News survey, high-ranking IT executives in North America and Europe were asked about the effect the NSA snooping practices have had on their cloud computing strategy. Despite the furor over the NSA, these leaders are still committed to the cloud.
The Cliff's notes: In...Dec. 13, 2013 10:45 AM EST Reads: 515 |
 For some organizations, cloud computing can be a hard sell, even before you come to the question of how to handle cloud-computing security. Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, encryption, tokenization, data residency, privacy regulations – all are factors involved and the percei...Dec. 13, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,444 |
 Disaster Recovery (DR) has typically only been used by organizations for applications deemed to be mission critical. This was because organizations didn’t want to incur the expense associated with DR for less important applications. Today, because of cloud computing, many organizations...Dec. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,379 |
 Growing trends such as BYOD will fuel the move to more pervasive use of identity and access management as a service, driven by the need for pervasive access and management and broader security concerns.
Business trends like bring your own device (BYOD) are forcing organizations to saf...Dec. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,370 |
 In my last post, we learned that services are only like products if you are willing to oversimplify them. And if you oversimplify them, you can miss out on business opportunities.
Services (actions supported by things) differ in several important ways from products (things supported b...Dec. 9, 2013 08:39 AM EST Reads: 1,421 |
 Identity Management (IDaaS) & Access Mgmt (SSO) solve similar but separate issues, but both serve as a cornerstone of an integrated security initiative.
One of the biggest misconceptions in cloud security is the perception that identity management (IDaaS) and access management (SSO) a...Dec. 7, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,817 |
 Many technologies have made their presence felt this year and continue to excite us with the promises they hold for the future. Cloud computing has now reached a stage where businesses are seriously experimenting and are starting to reap the transformational benefits it can deliver. If...Dec. 7, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,058 |
 As we move closer toward everything-as- a-service (XaaS), the title “Internet of Agents” seems to fit what is really happening. Agents are systems and devices that sense what is going on, and they exchange information with and act on behalf of other agents and people in ways that ultim...Dec. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,576 |
 There is a lot of confusion and hype about the cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service), and at Corent we experience it on a regular basis. One of the things I’ve been seeing and hearing about is the concept of a marketplace of cloud applications. I’ve observed that applications sold thi...Dec. 3, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,702 |
 Cloud this and cloud that are on the lips of every IT professional. Beyond being an overhyped buzzword, cloud computing is a technology that’s innovating the way that many businesses, from startups to enterprises, handle their IT needs. Whether it’s specific applications or a complete ...Dec. 2, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,085 |
 The digital age has forced a kind of dependency never before seen, a dependency on our inbox. The mere thought of losing these emails is inconceivable where the thought of it leaves us with a sense of panic, one similar to losing our credit cards or house key. Unfortunately, the potent...Dec. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,360 |
 Security-as-a-service provides the necessary ingredient to transform continuous monitoring from compliance mandate to best practice: real time monitoring.
Every 4,000 miles or so I bring my car into have the oil changed, the brakes checked and tires rotated. Why? Because I know if I l...Nov. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,505 |
 The adoption of cloud storage technology for a broad range of consumer and business applications is transforming the storage landscape by transitioning away from traditional disk arrays to object-based storage systems that have the scalability, availability, resiliency and accessibilit...Nov. 25, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,783 |
 Tests are an investment in the quality of any given system. There’s always a cost to build, run, and maintain each test in terms of time and resources. There’s also a great deal of value to be extracted from running the right test at the right time. It’s important to remember that for ...Nov. 23, 2013 05:00 PM EST Reads: 2,619 |
 In a previous blog we introduced the topic of cloud-as-it-is versus cloud as-we’d like-it-to-be. The cloud services broker (CSB) business model is gaining momentum as one way to turn the cloud into as-we’d-like-it-to-be. CSB is a term used for the activity of brokerage and also for the...Nov. 18, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,077 |
 After years of talking to people inside and outside of my company about the benefits of cloud computing, I'm truly convinced that the most important benefit is not cost reduction or the ability to have new servers up and running in a few minutes. Of course those are great capabilities ...Nov. 18, 2013 08:07 AM EST Reads: 1,992 |
 It is hard to believe that there was a time when “the cloud” didn’t exist. Then, maybe 50 years ago, a lot of cloud-like things started to happen, such as remote computing, networked computing, resource sharing, virtual networks, and then, eventually, the Internet. But it still wasn’t ...Nov. 18, 2013 05:18 AM EST Reads: 1,710 |
 The latest headlines in the ongoing surveillance soap opera focus on the revelation that the U.S. has been eavesdropping directly on German Prime Minister Angela Merkel. The reaction in Germany has been strong with many officials publically condemning the surveillance.
After the NSA’s...Nov. 16, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,305 |
 Who doesn't love a good zombie flick, right? Hordes of undead ambling around in tattered clothing looking for something to eat. The low, drawn-out moans of a once-productive member of society, who now possesses the brainpower of a teenager on an 8-hour Call of Duty bender.
While I don...Nov. 16, 2013 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,449 |
 With a wealth of technology and online resources, many people are ditching the traditional 9-to-5 lifestyle and opting to become entrepreneurs. Unlike businesses of the past, where a large financial investment was required to get off the ground, today's startups can get the ball rollin...Nov. 16, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,153 |
 With the launch of Cisco’s software-defined networking startup Insieme expected tomorrow, our industry is about to hear a lot about “application-centric” everything. So what does “application-centric infrastructure” mean?
First, some basics: Networking is about connecting computing de...Nov. 12, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,241 |
 Given the differences in market maturity, cultural acceptance and local IT infrastructures, considerable regional differences exist in the deployment rates of cloud-based security systems. They all play a part in the level of spending dedicated to this delivery model -- when compared w...Nov. 12, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,929 |
 I am fascinated by the notion of the physical world converging with the digital world and the benefits that become possible as a result. Not in the context of a humanoid weeding my garden, although that would be nice, but in the context of making better business decisions based on mor...Nov. 5, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,532 |
 As infrastructure has grown and mainstream database vendors have tweaked the cloud service model to apply to their own niche, cloud database technology has become an increasingly possible alternative to on-premises databases. Cloud database services offer many of the same benefits of o...Nov. 3, 2013 02:30 PM EST Reads: 1,864 |
 Fundamentally, Agile requires a rethink of the organizational aspects of planning, delivering, testing, and managing any IT project. The entire effort must be tackled iteratively. Stakeholders should be involved at every step. Testing must take place in every iteration, in order to les...Nov. 3, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,986 |
 A few weeks ago, Gartner shared its list of top 10 technology trends for 2014, including among its expectations one entitled: “Hybrid cloud and IT as Service Broker.” This prediction speaks to what Gartner views as the necessity of the hybrid cloud – a mix of private cloud combined wit...Nov. 3, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,248 |
 I recently came across Gartner research authored by analyst Colin Fletcher about the emergence of Business Value Dashboards (BVDs) that are replacing today’s conventional executive dashboards. When analyst research mentions a developing IT trend, I take note. But I pay special attentio...Nov. 2, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,125 |
 These testing demons lurk around complex interconnected systems, just waiting to wreak havoc by forcing you to delay testing, work at dreadful hours, or make distressing trade-offs on the completeness of your testing…
You're ready to test the part of the system that you're responsible...Nov. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,533 |
 The last few years have seen an explosion in the demand for enterprise mobile solutions. This movement has been clearly reflected in the rapid evolution of the enterprise mobile platform ecosystems. From mobile device management (MDM) to enterprise mobile middleware technologies, the i...Oct. 29, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,781 |
 With a slight chill in the air, we know Halloween is just around the corner. But what could be spookier than ghosts, goblins or a haunted house? For many IT managers it’s the fear of Big Data, which can be understandably overwhelming at first. We’ve compiled five of the spookiest misco...Oct. 28, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,858 |
 Performance is one of the key non-functional needs for any application and performance requirements needs to to be captured as part of requirements & analysis phase in a way that is understandable by all application stakeholders. In this article, we will see the key aspects of performa...Oct. 27, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,421 |
 The worldwide market for cloud computing is rapidly growing across all segments – 36% CAGR through 2016, reaching a market size of $19.5B by 2016, according to the InfoPro Wave 5 Cloud Computing Study from 451 Research. The result has been a substantial increase in the operational comp...Oct. 26, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,472 |
 We're in the middle of another major shift in computing and IT: the decline of the hard disk and the rise of solid-state memory. Solid-state has been around for a while, but it's always been expensive, volatile and low capacity. That's changing, and it's changing IT as well.
Computing...Oct. 26, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,168 |
 When you think of security do you think of locks, guards or even your home security alarm? At the moment security is more likely to bring up thoughts of hackers, PRISM and well-publicized data breaches.
Of course I think of the cloud when discussing security. In the contemporary world...Oct. 26, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,654 |
 In my previous blog, I suggested that both Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), although arguably different in intent and in detail, are nevertheless both driving the evolution of network architecture in the same direction. Network functions are ab...Oct. 26, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,638 |
 Exposing an API to your application is as risky as installing a doggie door into your house—as a recent incident with a bear aptly illustrates.
Exposing an API to your application is as risky as installing a doggie door into your house: you expect your dog to have the convenience of o...Oct. 24, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,129 |
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