Entries Categorized as 'Next-generation Data Center'
by Neil MacDonald | December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m just back from Gartner’s US 2011 Data Center Summit held this week in Las Vegas. In my previous post, I talked about information security vendor’s concerns on the potential impact of the Eurozone crisis on information security spending. Here, I want to outline the top security-related issues and concerns that I discussed with attendees [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security, vShield
by Neil MacDonald | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve just gotten back from Gartner’s Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Like Gartner’s recent US Symposium and European Symposium, the conference had record attendance and interest in information security was high. I’ll place the top security-related issues from non-vendor attendees in a separate post. On the vendor side, I had several information security providers [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Data Center Tags: GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, symposium
by Neil MacDonald | March 22, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve spent the past day and a half attending Microsoft’s Management Summit in Las Vegas. From my perspective the announcement that will affect the most enterprises from a security perspective was a change in licensing related to Forefront. Some history — in 2010, Microsoft reorganized the Server and Tools Business Unit placing the Forefront Endpoint [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Endpoint Protection Platform Microsoft Microsoft Security Next-generation Data Center Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, Endpoint Protection Platform, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Next-generation Data Center, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Windows
by Neil MacDonald | January 26, 2011 | 5 Comments
In one of my first posts as a blogger nearly 2 years ago, I discussed the potential for disaster if a compromise in the virtualization platform (hypervisor/VMM) occurred. Last year (I was intending to comment on this at the time, but it slipped my mind), I was reading the IBM X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and [...]
Category: Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Best Practices, Cloud Security, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
I attended a breakfast presentation this morning given by Schneider Electric on the topic of facilities and energy intelligence. Essentially, they are tearing down the monitoring silos of energy, fire, lighting, data center power, HVAC and physical security monitoring to deliver a unified dashboard for facilities and energy management. As I listened to the presentation, [...]
Category: Information Security Next-generation Data Center Security Intelligence Tags: GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure
by Neil MacDonald | December 6, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw that Juniper had acquired Altor Networks in this announcement. I had written up Altor Networks as a Gartner “Cool Vendor” earlier this year in this research note for clients. In this research note, I observed: Because Altor’s offerings were created from the beginning for use in a virtual environment, they also directly integrate with [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | December 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
As organizations virtualize their data centers, information security has had to evolve to support this. The same will be true as data centers evolve to private clouds – security must evolve to support the needs of private cloud infrastructure. For most organizations, virtualization will provide the foundation and the stepping stone for the evolution to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Hypervisor Security, Information Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization, Virtualization Security, VMware
by Neil MacDonald | October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
I’ve been out the last week travelling in preparation for Gartner’s US Symposium conference. I’ll be involved in multiple sessions (including interviewing Steve Ballmer). One presentation I’m giving is on how information security is evolving to become context aware and adaptive. Another presentation I am giving is on how cloud-based computing has the potential to [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Next-generation Security Infrastructure Virtualization Virtualization Security Tags: Adaptive Security Infrastucture, Cloud Security, Next-generation Data Center, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | September 16, 2010 | 6 Comments
Earlier this week, I saw this article describing a security breach by an internal Google employee where a site reliability engineer (now fired) had violated the privacy of multiple email accounts. From the article: Barksdale’s intrusion into Gmail and Gtalk accounts may have escaped notice, since SREs are responsible for troubleshooting issues on a constant [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Data Center Virtualization Security Tags: Best Practices, Cloud Security, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Virtualization Security
by Neil MacDonald | August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Last week, Microsoft held its annual financial analyst meeting. The materials presented are available at this link. There are the things you would expect – like Microsoft talking about the success of Windows 7 and IE8. There were a couple of areas that stood out: 1) Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner, explained that Microsoft’s [...]
Category: Cloud General Technology Next-generation Data Center Windows 7 Tags: Cloud Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Security, Windows
