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One of EMA’s advantages in having a base in Colorado is our proximity to a number of thought leaders in identity management, and nowhere is this more evident than at conferences such as the Cloud Identity Summit, an aptly-named event held in recent years here in Colorado’s high country (nearly as close to the clouds...

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(Update: This report is now published and available in our library. You can obtain a free summary of the study here. To view an on-demand webinar about this report, click here. You can also download a copy of the webinar slides here.) In 2010, we published our research report on Security as a Service, examining...

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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...

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One of the things that has amused me to no end in this business is the number of times I have encountered product vendors who emphatically do not want to be characterized as being “a security vendor.” I understand the rationale, as far as it goes: vendors of infrastructure and application technologies do not want...

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My friend and former EMA colleague Andi Mann has coined a term that distinctively captures the hamstrung state of virtualization in far too many organizations: virtualization stall. But there may be an equally serious problem facing those seeking to expand from virtualization to cloud computing as a true IT service architecture, regardless whether internal or...

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