Neil MacDonald

One of the common misconceptions that I run into is that a public cloud services provider can’t have an on-premises element to their offering and that having this footprint somehow “breaks” the cloud model. The root of this misconception lies in equating cloud to a location. Cloud is a computing style, not a location. There [...]

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Category: Cloud Cloud Security     Tags: Cloud Security, Virtual Appliances

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I been a proponent of the use of big data analytics techniques being applied to the next-generation of information security problems. Is there bound to be hype? Absolutely. That’s why Gartner publishes a large number of technology hype cycles each year. Technologies invariably get overhyped, fall into the “Trough of Disillusionment” and ultimately assume an [...]

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Category: Beyond Anti-Virus Big Data and Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence     Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Beyond Anti-Virus, Big Data, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA

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I’ve been absent from my typical blogging routine getting my material finalized for two Gartner upcoming US-based summits in June 2012. The first is Gartner’s Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit being held in Orlando the week of June 4th. This conference is focused on infrastructure and operations solutions for managing desktops, servers, and mobile devices [...]

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Category: Application Security Beyond Anti-Virus Big Data and Information Security Cloud Security Information Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Security Intelligence Virtualization Security     Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Application Security, application security testing tools, Beyond Anti-Virus, Cloud Security, Context-aware Security, DC-Summit-NA, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA, Virtualization Security, VMsafe, VMware, Whitelisting

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