Digital Transformation: Innovation With A Body Count
For the majority of the IT industry’s history the focus has been on efficiency, how to do more with less. More recently, and now lumped under the catchphrase of ‘Digital Transformation (DT/DX)’, the...
View ArticleMicro Focus HyPEs New Security Business
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Last week Equifax, a supplier of credit information, reported that a recent data breach could...
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Completely Different… And This Time We Mean It
Just days after unloading the majority of its software business HPE reported better-than-expected financial results, including $8.2 billion in revenues. “Execution continued to improve and our...
View Article…Security Operations Automation before Orchestration
Based upon numerous conversations with CISOs, there is widespread interest in automating and orchestrating security operations. In fact, lots of enterprises are already doing so. According to ESG...
View ArticleVMware’s Intention to Acquire VeloCloud…
The announcement of VMware’s intention to acquire VeloCloud signals the broadening of the NSX Everywhere story. SD-WAN is a solution that offers agility, security, orchestration, and other business...
View ArticleCA’s Perfect Storm (But For How Long?)
LAS VEGAS: This would appear to be the perfect time for CA Technologies, which has gathered its key customers and partners here for CA World ‘17. A growing data deluge, a sweeping digital...
View ArticleCA: Connecting the DoTs
To help address the emerging multi-trillion-dollar app-driven digital transformation business phenomenon, CA Technologies made more than 20 new and enhanced product announcements at CA World ‘17. That...
View ArticleCA Wants To Be The One (DevSecOps) Throat To Choke
Whether it’s via a perfect storm, product onslaught or the ‘disrupt or be disrupted’ times, CA Technologies appears to be making steady, if slow, progress from its mainframe roots to the app-fueled...
View ArticleDT Success Is… Elusive
Everybody needs it. Most everybody is trying to achieve it. And the majority of those who try fail to realize its benefits. It is digital transformation — AKA DT, DX or Industry 4.0 — the...
View ArticleIBM’s… Back to Kicking Butt
I’m ex-IBM myself and it gives me great pleasure to see my old firm do well. Well this quarter they didn’t disappoint with significant improvement in their new business initiatives, which are just...
View ArticleHas Cisco Got The Right Stuff?
John Chambers, who handed control of Cisco to Chuck Robbins in July 2015, was bumped further upstairs a month ago when he became Chairman Emeritus, while his successor took over his role as Chairman of...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning…
The traction over the last few years in the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) space is remarkable, and I’m not just talking about consumer-based products like self-driving cars, or...
View ArticleWhere Endpoint Management and Security Meet
Upgrade existing tools or net new platform investments? This is the question IT operations and information security teams are wrestling with as they attempt to secure an expanding perimeter driven by...
View Article…Addressing the Hybrid Cloud Security Readiness Gap
Over the last few months, some established cybersecurity brands have made strategic moves while emerging market leaders have announced compelling capabilities and initiatives. This notable level of...
View ArticleCloud Computing Security Chaos Continues at RSA Conference 2018
My esteemed colleague, Doug Cahill, did a great job at the RSA Conference with a killer presentation on hybrid cloud security. Unfortunately, Doug’s presentation occurred on Thursday afternoon, when...
View ArticleCA’s BTCS2.0: Change Is The New Normal
SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Determined to be the leading toolmaker for the software-enabled, data-driven, digital transformation business phenomenon that is reshaping the world, CA Technologies held its...
View Article…Linking Development and Security…
This conversation with Doug Cahill examines the crucial – but all-too-often overlooked – necessity for cooperation between DevOps and Security teams. While there’s pretty much universal agreement that...
View ArticleMainframe Popularity Grows
For decades the mainframe, AKA Big Iron, has been declining in significance, with shrinking sales, fewer customers, and smaller, faster, simpler and less-costly alternatives nipping at its heels....
View ArticleBlackBerry And The China Military Supermicro Server Hack
I’m at the BlackBerry Security Summit this week and wouldn’t you know it, while I’m here Bloomberg blasted out a story indicating pretty much all the major companies that use Supermicroservers may have...
View ArticleAmazon Workspaces at AWS re:Invent 2018
AWS re:Invent is a premier event, and ESG always makes it a priority to attend. The event captures an audience of IT decision makers and business leaders who are hungry to learn and discover where...
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