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EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

During the week of May 5th, EMC held its fast-growing user conference in Las Vegas, while just down the strip the Interop 2013 event was also underway. Lacking an ability to clone myself, I did my best to attend both, in the process actively supporting the local contingent of taxi drivers and putting in more than a few miles of walking (not sure my shoes will ever be the same). In short, both events were heavily focused on programmability of network and storage – two of the three “legs” of the IT infrastructure stool, the last being servers. The big ...

Dell’s Clean Slate Approach to Enterprise IT

Breaking News: Dell Acquires Enstratius to Further Complete Its Cloud Story Today, on May 6, 2013, Dell acquired Enstratius, a company aimed at deploying, automating and managing applications in complex hybrid cloud environments. Enstratius enforces governance and security in the cloud, offering automated scaling, disaster recovery and cloud bursting. The Enstratius solution supports all popular public and private cloud offerings such as VMware vCloud, Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, HP Cloud Services, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack and CloudStack. Enstratius enables developers and operations staff to keep using their monitoring, configuration management – e.g. Opscode Chef and Puppet- and other operations ...

Network Management Goes BIG at CAWorld 2013

This year’s theme for CAWorld 2013 was “Go Big: IT with Impact.” So I thought what the heck – let’s go big. I stepped back and took a much broader look across the CA Technologies portfolio than I normally would. Usually, I focus on the network management solutions, which live primarily within CA’s Service Assurance group, and almost all under the heading of Infrastructure Management. That’s where Spectrum lives, along with Performance Center, which is a latest-generation update to eHealth and ReporterAnalyzer. Nimsoft was recently added to this list as well. But as I was to find out, that is ...

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RSA 2011: A Thumbnail Peek at the Coming Week

posted by Scott Crawford | February 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

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One of nature’s great migrations will take place once again next week as the IT security world makes its annual pilgrimage to the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (And yes, dear, it means Valentine’s Day spent with a buncha geeks and suits rather than you…go figure.) Herewith a glimpse of some of the main things...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: cloud computing, Computer security, Network security, RSA Conference, SecureWorks

Application Management and Application Aware Networking: Part 1

posted by Julie Craig | February 2, 2011 | one Comments

As many readers know, my colleague Jim Frey, who leads EMA’s Network Management practice, released groundbreaking research on Application Aware Networking (ANPM) in Q3 of 2010 entitled, “Application Awareness in Network Performance Management”. A free summary is available at: http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php?id=1801. While Jim was working on his report, Dennis Drogseth and I were doing parallel research...

Posted in Julie Craig Tags: network management, Network performance management

Toward CNS: Converged Network Security systems

posted by Scott Crawford | January 31, 2011 | 0 Comments

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In my ongoing series of posts on data-driven security, I noted the rise of defense tactics that seem to point the way toward reliance more on continuous, dynamic data sources than on intermittent feeds of data such as signature updates. One advantage of such an approach would be to make defense more responsive to new...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: Network security, security

The Rise of Data-Driven Security, Part 4: The Case for the Fourth Paradigm

posted by Scott Crawford | January 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

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When I first cut my teeth in IT security some years ago, I was a systems administrator for a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the parent of the National Center for Atmospheric Research here in Boulder. UCAR/NCAR is what Gordon Bell calls a “data place” – an organization whose mission in part...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: Computer security, IBM, Oracle Exadata

HP No longer a player in business intelligence

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

I cover many business intelligence vendors; some execute and some don’t. I started in this industry back in the mid 90′s and I don’t think I have witnessed another meltdown quite like HP’s business intelligence group. This morning HP announced that it would no longer actively sell its NeoView BI solution. Its not uncommon for...

Posted in Shawn Rogers Tags: Business Intelligence, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, Mark Hurd, Microsoft, Oracle

The Rise of Data-Driven Security, Part 3: Security Management and Strategy

posted by Scott Crawford | January 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

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In the first two installments in this series, I looked at the rise of Tactical security defenses that are becoming more directly reliant on dynamic data feeds Data sources and emerging data markets to serve both security tactics and security intelligence In this post, I’ll look at the third aspect of data-driven security emerging today, and...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: ArcSight, Computer security, Security event manager, Security management

The Rise of Data-Driven Security, Part 2: Data Sources and Emerging Data Markets

posted by Scott Crawford | January 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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In my last post, the first in this series, I talked about how recent vendor trends highlight the rise of data-driven tactics for defense. This is just one of three major aspects of data-driven security becoming more prominent in products and services. To recap, those three aspects are: Data-driven tactics which differ from legacy security...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: Data security, security

Insights from “Operationalizing Cloud” Research

posted by Dennis Drogseth | January 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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EMA has just collected some new data regarding how IT organizations are seeking to assimilate cloud services from a top-down, service management perspective. The data gathered in December of 2010, spanned 155 global respondents with high percentages of executives (better than 50% director and above) – as the goal was to understand how senior management and cross-domain...

Posted in Cloud Computing, Dennis Drogseth Tags: cloud computing, SaaS, Service management

The Rise of Data-Driven Security, Part 1: Data-Driven Tactics

posted by Scott Crawford | January 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Last week, Sourcefire announced the acquisition of Immunet, a provider of hosted anti-malware technology that delivers more responsive protection to emerging threats without the need for periodic signature updates. Much of the commentary on this deal has focused on the accelerating momentum of hosted security technology plays, and the advantages of security functionality delivered “from...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: BigFix, cloud computing, Data-driven design, FireEye, IBM, Immunet Corporation, McAfee, Sourcefire

Innovation alert: techcello

posted by Julie Craig | January 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

I always enjoy working with startups because there is so much innovation going on out there. This morning, I briefed with Techcello about the celloSaaS product. This is a solution that enables virtually any company to build multi-tenant SaaS over .NET. While it could certainly be used by ISVs, it also opens up private SaaS...

Posted in Cloud Computing, Julie Craig Tags: .NET Framework, cloud computing, IBM, Salesforce.com, Small business, Techcello