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Microsoft Hosting Summit 2012: Taking Hosting Partners Seriously
Insights for IT departments from Microsoft's cloud partner event
by IDC analysts
Where did the term Cloud come from? I used to have a good theory. Something about network diagrams and lots of cloud shaped whiteboard drawings. But now I'm convinced that the over-used term came from Microsoft. After a week in...
May 11, 2012 12:11 PM Read Full Post
Biometrics and cloud federation - is this a trend?
Finanical services leading the way
by IDC analysts
Typically when asked about biometrics, our research shows that it is used most heavily in physical access scenarios, in government agencies, and of course, fingerprint scanning for personal computer access, USB drives, etc. Could this be changing soon? There have...
May 10, 2012 1:14 AM Read Full Post
Getting ready for third generation infrastructures: the UK PSN
by IDC analysts
We recently had the pleasure of participating in the "Public Services Network Conference from Vision to Reality", hosted by BT in collaboration with the UK's Cabinet Office PSN Programme Team. The event provided us an opportunity to have an overview...
March 30, 2012 9:32 AM Read Full Post
SAP supply chain summit: Are customers ready for the cloud?
by IDC analysts
SAP recently held its Supply Chain Summit at its US headquarters. The event was very well attended with over 200 attendees from 97 unique companies. Day one started off with deep dives in various areas including: Supply network collaboration Next...
March 29, 2012 10:52 AM Read Full Post
RSA Conference 2012: Emerging security operations, compliance and risk management concerns
Data points to a shift in how organisations view GRC
by IDC analysts
It's been three weeks since the RSA Conference. Majority of the discussions and sessions at RSA centred on cybersecurity and state-sponsored attacks, hacktivism, advanced socially engineered attacks and increasingly sophisticated malware. This research note will not discuss these topics. Most...
March 28, 2012 10:40 AM Read Full Post
Smarter physical infrastructure megatrends
by IDC analysts
This is a summary of my keynote presentation for the Smarter Physical Infrastructure track at IBM's Pulse 2012 conference. My slides are attached. Prior to discussing smarter physical infrastructure it's important to define what we mean by "smart". One way...
March 27, 2012 10:16 AM Read Full Post
Authentication for the cloud is not one-size-fits-all
Sign-on security must adapt to changing conditions
by IDC analysts
Corporations and consumers must be aware that the levels of authentication provided are adequate and scalable to meet the specific transactional need. In other worlds, adaptive. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) market is in a state of disruption, driven...
March 26, 2012 5:07 PM Read Full Post
Why the payments industry should be opposed to SOPA
Why the anti-piracy legislation threatens the neutrality of payment providers
by IDC analysts
On January 18, 2012, several of the most prominent websites on the Internet, including Wikipedia, suspended operations in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), currently under consideration in the House of Representatives. While the main arguments against SOPA...
February 8, 2012 11:55 AM Read Full Post
DMARC aims to reinforce financial critical infrastructure
Secure communications with customers deserve strong support
by IDC analysts
Rarely do updates to pure tech standards get a lot of attention by the press and media, but the financial and tech firms behind the recently announced DMARC organisation and the work of the IETF make this weeks announcement a...
February 7, 2012 3:39 PM Read Full Post
Juniper weaves security throughout its domain strategy
Bringing sense to networking?
by IDC analysts
At Juniper’s recent Global Partner Conference, the company unveiled seven new technology categories, aimed at putting the network vendor’s rapidly expanding product categories into context for customers and partners. The seven "domains" as Juniper calls them, include: campus and branch,...
January 24, 2012 12:25 PM Read Full Post
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