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Fall Symposium: Finally Friday, Fleeing Florida

by John Pescatore  |  October 22, 2010  |  1 Comment

I’ve been at Gartner a bit over 11 years and this was actually my 12th Fall Symposium. Attendance was up in a huge way this year – it actually felt like 2000 when the Dot Com boom was still happening and the downturn caused by the terrorist attacks of 2001 was still in the future. [...]

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Gartner Symposium Day One: Dealing With Consumerization

by John Pescatore  |  October 18, 2010  |  1 Comment

Well, I’m down at Gartner’s Symposium in Orlando, FL – where the sun is always shining but we never get to see it. I did the Gartner Information Security Scenario presentation in the am, and then 9 client 1-1 meetings in the afternoon. Most of the conversations I had with Gartner clients were about how [...]

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On The Road for October

by John Pescatore  |  October 15, 2010  |  Submit a Comment

I’ve been out on the West Coast with Gartner clients for most of the past three weeks and it has been unusually warm – temperatures were in the 90s and above most of the time. October has also brought a heat wave in vulnerabilities: Adobe kicked off the month releasing a whopping 23 patches. Microsoft’s [...]

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