Entries Tagged as 'GartnerDC'
by Neil MacDonald | March 31, 2012 | 7 Comments
In multiple Gartner surveys, security is cited as the number one inhibitor to the adoption of Cloud-based computing. Many IT professionals have a preconceived notion that cloud computing will be less secure than what they can deliver themselves on premises. This is a mistake. An absolute statement that cloud computing will be less secure is [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Next-generation Security Infrastructure Tags: Cloud Security, DC-Summit-NA, GartnerDC, Information Security, Next-generation Security Infrastructure, Security-Summit-NA
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 | November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
I spent the last week in Barcelona with 4,000+ attendees at the 2011 Gartner European Symposium. It was a new venue for Gartner (we were displaced from Cannes by the G20), and I’m happy to say it was a fantastic with record attendance. Security was front and center of attendee interests. We had a total [...]
Category: Application Security Cloud Security Virtualization Security Tags: application security testing tools, Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Information Security, symposium
by Neil MacDonald | December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
Survey after survey shows that the top issue that organizations have when considering the adoption of public cloud-based computing services is “security and privacy”. Gartner’s own surveys show this: The survey data above is from December 2009, we’ll be publishing the December 2010 survey data for clients over the next several weeks. You all have [...]
Category: Cloud Cloud Security Information Security Vendor Contracts Virtualization Security Tags: Cloud Security, GartnerDC, Information Security
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
