Cisco's recently announced decision to acquire SD-WAN provider Viptela for $610 million in cash and equity represents both a major validation of the SD-WAN technology space, and a thrown gauntlet to all other SD-WAN providers. Although Cisco has been heavily promoting its own iWAN SD-WAN...
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." That's the phrase that kept running through my head as the folks from Acalvio prebriefed me on Deception 2.0, the second version of the company's advanced threat defense technology. The basic premise behind the company's...
The hybrid service delivery environment wants to be a true hybrid cloud. One thing it needs in order to get there is a good cloud service broker. What Is Hybrid Cloud? Not what we are doing now. What we are doing now is, hybrid service delivery: we have...
As UC platforms become more open to the outside world, IT leaders need to heed newer threats, including guest-access features, federation capabilities and cloud services. Nemertes Research, a tech advisory firm, recently interviewed IT security leaders about their top enterprise security concerns and challenges. Unsurprisingly, participants...
For IT leaders, building a business case is typically close to the bottom on a list of favorite job responsibilities. Yet, it’s crucial to the success of IT and getting more for less in a world where everyone’s competing for IT budget dollars. As companies move...
Unified communications and collaboration is rapidly transforming; IT leaders need to get out ahead of these changes to stay relevant. Managing enterprise communications and collaboration has followed a predictable approach: Define the requirements and pick a solution. Over time, upgrade as necessary. And, every so often,...
Based on our 2016 benchmark, some folks are overly optimistic about how much of their workload will be migrated to public cloud by the end of 2018. Cloud Optimists: The Glass Is Half Empty If all you knew about cloud was what you read in any number of breathless articles about it, even the...
[caption id="attachment_2159" align="alignright" width="300"] Darkside economics decouples genius from criminality[/caption] Another day, another ransomware: Security researchers at threat intelligence provider Recorded Future have uncovered Karmen, a ransomware app that is so easy-to-use that novices can set up and run it. Getting started with Karmen costs just...
Automation tools are going through a renaissance...
As pretty much everyone on the planet knows by now, last week when footage of a passenger being forcibly removed from his seat by security at the request of United Airlines went viral, United's stock price imploded, slashing the company's market capitalization by $800 million....
When we think about IoT, it's usually in terms of networks composed of computing devices and networks. But what about storage? Even the smallest of sensors and control points require storage, yet most IoT design neglects the need for local storage. Part of the reason:...
Like most engineers, I was a very weird kid. (I forget which science fiction writer put it perfectly: All of us who grew up to love science fiction were weird little boys, except for those of us who were weird little girls). I always wanted to...