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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | March 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

Frustration

I had originally intended to make this blog about mental health.  A supportive article for those of you trying to support change in your own environment wrestling with the stubbornly persistent caricatures and silos still so dominant in many IT organizations. It was inspired by a rather nasty line in a novel my one of...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | March 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

This morning, friend shrdlu pointed out that RSA might indeed have entirely legitimate reasons for being so deliberate in avoiding a rush to disclose information about the breach of SecurID information: Guys, unless you’ve dealt with this from the executive seat before, you don’t know the other issues. She has a point. Like her, I...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | March 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

A short while ago, RSA released an additional customer advisory (customer login required) regarding the breach of SecurID information disclosed last Thursday. In my updated initial take on the breach, I noted that: To date, RSA has disclosed no detail about exactly what was compromised or how, leaving customers with no actionable information regarding their...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | March 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Updated: Commentary on RSA’s disclosure and SecurCare advisory of March 17) Yesterday, RSA Security disclosed that it had been the victim of a security breach that, according to Executive Chairman Art Coviello’s open letter to customers, resulted in the exposure of information “specifically related to RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication products.” Coviello’s letter goes on to state that “[w]hile...

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posted by Dan Twing   | March 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dollar signs

EMA conducted four research studies during Q4 2010 with over 400 respondents in total.  While the topics of these studies varied from two cloud computing topics and two asset management topics, we always include a standard set of demographic questions and budget questions.  I asked our Survey Production & Research Analytics Manager, Sylvia Rimmington, to combine the...

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posted by Jim Frey   | March 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

Radar-logo

(Editor’s Note:  The following is a guest post by our newest EMA Senior Analyst, Tracy Corbo) EMA has been following the WAN optimization sector for some time. Back in 2008, EMA’s Network Management Megatrends research determined that depending on which IT teams you asked, their view towards WAN optimization was divergent. While those who identified...

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posted by Julie Craig   | March 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

IBM Pulse 2011 was a low key affair, announcement-wise, compared to past events. Attended by nearly 7,000 people– a record for this event– tracks and sessions were plentiful, while major announcements were somewhat sparse. Instead of glitz, however, it was clear that IBM Software has spent the past year building a foundation for new ways...

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posted by Jim Frey   | March 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

New Research-n1

Well, in case anyone had missed it, it does seem to be fairly official – Cloud is here to stay, as is server virtualization. But what does this really mean in terms of the impact it’s going to have on the daily lives of network engineers, managers, and operators? Will the network actually disappear into...

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posted by Julie Craig   | March 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Tell me your thoughts on ROI and you may win a $100 Amazon gift card! Drawing next week....

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | March 3, 2011 | 0 Comments

Consolidation in the ADBMS space continues at high speed this morning with the announcement from Teradata that it  has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aster Data Systems. Recent deals in this space include EMC/GreenPlum, HP/Vertica, IBM/Netezza, SAP/Sybase and several years ago Microsoft/DataAllegro. Aster Data is an MPP/columnar based solution that will make an interesting...

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