by Greg Young | November 7, 2008 | 5 Comments
The biggest and best part of a Gartner analyst’s day is spent speaking with buyers of IT – our primary customers. Next comes writing and conducting research, and speaking with solution providers. These solution provider sessions we call vendor briefings, and they are available to any vendor provided the analyst thinks it will be of [...]
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by Greg Young | November 4, 2008 | Comments Off
I had a box of books I moved from the local Gartner office to my home office. Going through it was like Christmas and Hanukah and Kwanzaa all together. I do love books, even work books. Out of the box came Applied Cryptography, Bellovin and Cheswick’s ’94 Firewalls and Internet Security, Stallings’ ’95 Network and [...]
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by Greg Young | November 2, 2008 | Comments Off
I was pleased to have spent several days last week meeting face-to-face with about a dozen Gartner enterprise customers. A common theme in the discussions was how to avoid spending money on the newest, coolest, and least useful security gadget. You know the ones: far left of the Hype Cycle, rapidly growing number of vendors, [...]
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