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by Jon Oltsik
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Information security:Way worse than you think. 
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Earlier this year, I reported that 49% of mid-sized (i.e., less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise organizations (i.e., greater than 1,000 employees) will increase network hardware spending in 2010. Well I went back and cut the ESG 2010 IT Spending Data for fun this week and here is what I learned:
Network hardware [...]
Cisco announced its financial results today, much to the delight of Wall Street. Cisco revenue beat estimates and posted 8% year-over-year growth. Net income rose 26% over last year. These stellar results prompted Cisco CEO John Chambers to declare, “we are hitting on all cylinders.”
No doubt, these are impressive results, but there [...]
Microsoft built upon its Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) this week with an announcement at the Black Hat conference in Washington DC. With this announcement, Microsoft will provide a simplified implementation of SDL. The goal here is to spread the goodness of SDL to smaller or less sophisticated development organizations.
Microsoft also extended its [...]
Today, PGP announced that it plans to acquire TC Trust Center and ChosenSecurity. Never heard of them? You are not alone. Basically, TC TrustCenter and ChosenSecurity provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Internet-based trust relationships.
Okay, some of you may think that this is simply a way to spin PKI (public key infrastructure) into [...]
As an analyst, everyone and his brother has sent me their research claiming that large and small organizations are embracing and investing in cloud computing.
Nope. According to ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Data, only 12% of mid-sized (i.e., less than 1,000 employees) and enterprise (i.e., more than 1,000 employees) organizations claim that [...]
For the last few years, I used Windows Vista on my laptop PC and felt like it was pretty good. I guess I was part of a small minority – most organizations eschewed Vista and stuck with tried-and-true XP.
Now that Windows 7 is out, it appears like the tides have turned. According [...]
An old friend sent me a link to Scott McNealy’s email titled, “Thanks for a Great 28 Years,” yesterday. Scott didn’t really reflect on old memories in detail, but reading his words got me thinking.
As I reflect on Sun and McNealy, I have the same feeling as when Digital Equipment was purchased [...]
Cisco (CSCO), NetApp (NTAP), and VMware (VMW) made an interesting announcement this week. The three amigos teamed up to deliver secure multi-tenancy in a virtual infrastructure.
What does this mean? In large organizations, it means that IT can enable different functional departments or business applications to share server, networking, and storage infrastructure [...]
This week, F5 Networks announced delightful Q1 financial results to Wall Street. Company revenue was up 11%, topping Wall Street estimates; the company hired nearly 100 new employees; and F5 now has a market cap in excess of $4 billion. Share price actually jumped 3% after the announcement.
These results say a lot about F5 Networks, [...]
Good news! ESG and other analyst firms are forecasting greater IT spending in 2010. Bad news: spending will be uneven across industries with varying degrees of increases and decreases.
Given this, technology vendors would be best served by bolstering their vertical marketing programs, skills, and partners–but which industries should be highlighted?
ESG just published its annual Vertical [...]
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