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Whether it’s lifestyle or investing, taking the balanced approach often provides the best results. The same can said for cloud security. Cloud is popular because it offers flexibility of resources (including people), allows new ways to conduct business (especially collaboration) and a way to sidestep...
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Kent Purdy
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May 15, 2013
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Filed under: Cloud Computing, Gartner, InfoWorld, Risk Management, Regulations, Consumerization, Cloud, Risk, HR Policy, Human Resources, mandates, BYOD, Kent Purdy, Bring Your Own Device, Security Web, Sophie Vanhegan, David Linthicum, Information Leaks, Budget, HR Magazine, GQ Employment Law, CIOs, Intellectual Assets
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It’s true that nobody likes expensive insurance. Most of us look at ways to reduce our insurance premiums on our homes, cars, boats etc. We do this because it’s a cost that we don’t initially see the value in. It’s also something we may never need. So therefore, minimizing the...
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Steve Stavridis
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Dec 12, 2012
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Filed under: vmware, NetIQ, cloud, Gartner, Disaster Recovery, DR, Steve Stavridis, vForum, Insurance, 80/20 Rule, Critical, Data Center Solutions
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In my travels across the Asia Pacific region in recent months, I’ve been talking to several Managed Service/Cloud Providers and customers about Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud. Interestingly, Gartner states that by 2014, over 30% of midsize companies will have adopted DR in the cloud or recovery...
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Steve Stavridis
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Dec 10, 2012
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Filed under: vmware, virtualization, NetIQ, cloud, Australia, Gartner, Disaster Recovery, DR, RaaS, Recovery-as-a-Service, Steve Stavridis, vForum, Data Center Solutions
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To start this post I’ll be breaking the cardinal rule of Vegas by sharing what happens in Vegas. I look forward to this year’s Gartner Data Center conference as it promises to be a year of great change addressing major themes of: Accelerating Innovation, Driving Transformation and Achieving...
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Michele Hudnall
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Nov 29, 2012
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Filed under: NetIQ, Gartner, BSM, Business Service Management, Data Center, IT, Forbes, Michele Hudnall, Technology Showcase, Ed Holub, DevOpsSec, Donna Scott, Javaohn Enck, David Cappuccio, GartnerDC, Raymond Paquet, Cameron Haight, Chief Innovation Officer, George Weiss, Jeffrey Hewitt, Jeffrey Brooks, DevOps, John Rivard, Aneel Lakhani, Las Vegas, Operational Excellence, Neil MacDonald, Gartner Data Center Conference, Innovation, Information Technology, Data Center Solutions
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2013 Prediction: Threat detection and management will be required to monitor continuously and in business context with regard to level of risk. Given the rapid change, information requirements, environment complexity, growing devices, explosive data growth and growing real-time analysis requirements...
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Michele Hudnall
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Nov 20, 2012
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Filed under: Heartland Breach, Change Control, Compliance, Heartland, Gartner, Risk Management, Verizon Breach Report, Data Security, Vulnerability, Threat, Log Files, Certification, Breach, IT Audit, Security Management, Security Breach, Access, SIEM, Outage, Data Breaches, ZDNet, Big Data, BYOD, Threat Detection, security incidents, Compliance Automation, Bring Your Own Device, 'Anton Chuvakin', IT Security, Michele Hudnall, Huff Post Live, Analytics, Breaches, BSM, Business Service Management, Continuous Monitoring, DevOpsSec, Networkworld, DHS, Availability, Department of Homeland Security, Threat Monitoring, Security Web
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If we look back a couple of years Gartner was saying that healthcare CIOs needed to take immediate steps toward implementing a sound wireless and mobile device strategy . I’m not convinced that those CIOs listened to Gartner. Rather, in my humble opinion, it was the continued groundswell of personal...
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David Shephard
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Aug 31, 2012
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Filed under: Access Control, NetIQ, Compliance, Gartner, Regulations, IT Security, CIO, IAM, Novell, IdM, Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, iPad, Identity Manager, Mobile Devices, Mobile Security, Access Manager, BYOD, Smartphone, Healthcare, Bring Your Own Device, HIMSS Conference, Hospital, Remote Care Treatment, Netherlands, Porter Research, TMDi, Physicians, Information Systems, Wireless Medical Devices, Arkin, Patients, EMR, Security Mandates, Electronic Medical Records, Billian's HealthDATA, David Shephard, Mobile Computing, Nurses, Mobility Strategy, Monitoring Devices, Doctors, Security Web
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This is part of a blog series. For more details, start with the intro . Do or do not. There is no try. Said this, a great philosopher once did. His most famous quote, arguably, it is. Ok, so Yoda is fictional. But the quote is not. You don't need to have your religion listed as "Jedi" to...
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Ian Yip
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Aug 21, 2012
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Filed under: Gartner, IT Security, Threat, Breach, Social Engineering, Phishing, Employees, Ian Yip, Security Awareness, Yoda, There is no try, Star Wars, Do or do not, Andrew Wells, weakest link, policy, Security Web
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IT Transformation is and has been a hot topic for >20 years. Wow! I was speaking to one of my analyst friends at Forrester not too long ago and we were chatting about how much waste exists in annual IT spend just "Keeping the Lights On" and how these metrics haven't changed in >20...
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Michele Hudnall
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Jul 19, 2012
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Filed under: dashboards, performance, Systems Management, monitoring, end-to-end, SLA, service level agreements, Operating Level Agreements, Management, IT management, Cloud computing, Availability, cloud, Forrester, Gartner, Spending, growth, CIO, BSM, Business Service Management, Service Providers, Live Dashboards, Intelligent Information, Data Center, Application Performance, Operations Center, WorkloadIQ, Cloud Providers, SaaS, Software as a Service, BYOD, Consumerization, Cloud Management, IT, Forbes, Board of Directors, SLAs, Business Services, High Availability, Amazon, IT Transformation, New York Times, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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We've discussed service management and the transformation that IT is undergoing with the catalysts being the cloud, service providers, SaaS, social media, collaboration, mobility, BYOD, etc. The root catalyst is choice and options in the market and the competition speaks in terms of service value...
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Michele Hudnall
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Jun 28, 2012
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Filed under: dashboards, best practice, thresholds, performance, Systems Management, integration, correlation, end-to-end, SLA, service level agreements, Management, data, NetIQ, IT application management, IT management, Cloud computing, Availability, secure computing, cloud, communication, security, Forrester, Gartner, Spending, Operations, IT Process Automation, adoption of cloud, CIO, BSM, Business Service Management, Forrester Research, Service Providers, End-to-End Management, Business Objectives, Live Dashboards, Intelligent Information, Data Center, Application Performance, Data Sources, Strategy, Operations Center, Applications, WorkloadIQ, Cloud Providers, Systems Monitoring, Cloud Management, Public Cloud, IT, Key Performance Indicators, Systems, Business Services, Managed Service Provider, Manager of Managers, End User Experience, High Availability, NOC, IT Transformation, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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Previously I posted, "Why Service Management" discussing the melding of IT and the business for common objectives in managing, measuring and communicating service performance. The recent Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit (IOM ) also provoked the status quo of IT Operations...
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Michele Hudnall
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Jun 26, 2012
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Filed under: dashboards, performance, scalability, critical applications, Systems Management, monitoring, integration, end-to-end, service desk, help desk, reporting, SLA, service level agreements, data, virtualization, automation, NetIQ, IT application management, IT management, Cloud computing, Availability, secure computing, cloud, Microsoft, communication, security, mobile, Collaboration, Gartner, Funding, Spending, Tech Jobs, Operations, Social Media, trends, growth, IT Process Automation, CIO, BSM, Business Service Management, Business Architect, Service Providers, End-to-End Management, Business Objectives, Live Dashboards, Intelligent Information, Key Services, Data Center, Application Performance, Operations Center, Applications, WorkloadIQ, Cloud Providers, IT Operations, SaaS, Software as a Service, Systems Monitoring, 2012, Data Center. Mobile, BYOD, Consumerization, Cloud Management, iPad, Tablets, QoS, Quality of Service, IT, Cloud Marketplace, Self-Service, Risk, Productivity, KPIs, as-a-service, SLAs, Key Performance Indicators, Systems, Enterprise, Business Services, Managed Service Provider, End User Experience, High Availability, IT Transformation, Gartner IOM, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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I'm back from a couple of weeks of travel and most notably, the annual Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit (IOM) the first week of June. There were more than just a handful of aha moments, much churn in what has been a mature market and many great conversations on the solution...
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Michele Hudnall
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Jun 20, 2012
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Filed under: dashboards, performance, Systems Management, monitoring, integration, end-to-end, SLA, service level agreements, virtualization, automation, IT management, Availability, cloud, predictions, Infrastructure, mobile, Gartner, Spending, Tech Jobs, Social Media, IT Process Automation, CIO, Business Service Management, Service Providers, End-to-End Management, Business Objectives, Intelligent Information, Key Services, Data Center, Application Performance, Operations Center, Cloud Providers, IT Operations, Systems Monitoring, 2012, BYOD, Cloud Management, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, ITIL, IT, CMDB, as-a-service, SLAs, Systems, Business Services, Customer Experience, High Availability, NOC, IT Transformation, Gartner IOM, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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I traveled the globe from October to February meeting with customers and our sales teams discussing NetIQ's IT Operations Management (ITOM) value and solutions, then I traded in wings for a bit. Now it's time for one of my favorite battery re-charging conferences of the year, the Gartner Infrastructure...
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Michele Hudnall
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Jun 4, 2012
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Filed under: dashboards, performance, Systems Management, monitoring, integration, end-to-end, SLA, service level agreements, virtualization, automation, IT management, Availability, cloud, predictions, Infrastructure, mobile, Gartner, Spending, Tech Jobs, Social Media, IT Process Automation, CIO, Business Service Management, Service Providers, End-to-End Management, Business Objectives, Intelligent Information, Key Services, Data Center, Application Performance, Operations Center, Cloud Providers, IT Operations, Systems Monitoring, 2012, BYOD, Cloud Management, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, ITIL, IT, CMDB, as-a-service, SLAs, Systems, Business Services, Customer Experience, High Availability, NOC, IT Transformation, Gartner IOM, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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We are just returning from a busy week in San Francisco at Security BSides and the RSA Conference , where we introduced our new SIEM solution: NetIQ Sentinel 7 with the power and simplicity to achieve the promise of SIEM. It was great meeting so many of you at these and our other events in February,...
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David Shephard
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Mar 2, 2012
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Filed under: AppManager, Training, London, Secure Configuration Manager, Security, Gartner, RSA Conference, NetIQ, Avaya, Unix, Nortel, Cisco, Vivinet Assessor, Vivinet Diagnostics, Cloud Computing, SANS, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Compliance, Identity and Access Management, IAM, Virtualization, UC, UK, France, Texas, Cloud Manager, Governance, Windows, ISSA, WorkloadIQ, Webcast, VoIP Management, USAF, BSidesSF, Data Centre, SANS CDI, Sentinel 7, EMEA, Cloud Management, Summit, Microsoft Lync, San Antonio, Security BSides, Florida, RSAC, Unified Communications, SIEM, En francais, Orlando, US Air Force, SQL, IIS, David Shephard, Drop
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I talked about Nicholas Carr's Harvard Business Review paper entitled, “IT Doesn’t Matter” in my last post . His paper made some predictions about the evolving role of IT, its commoditization and eventual outsourcing of the commodity functions. Now enter 'The Cloud', the...
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Michele Hudnall
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Feb 15, 2012
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Filed under: NetIQ, cloud, Gartner, BSM, Business Service Management, Service Providers, Operations Center, ITIL, QoS, Quality of Service, Harvard Business Review, HBR, BSMReview, Bill Keyworth, Nicholas Carr, Forbes, Board of Directors, IT Transformation, Michele Hudnall, Data Center Solutions
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There is an exciting (ok, I don't get out much) proposal from Neil MacDonald , of Gartner, that he calls systematic workload reprovisioning. The idea is to periodically stop and restart instances of programs or workloads on a server, using a vetted set of service executables and dependencies. The...
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Garve Hays
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Jul 19, 2011
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Filed under: Security, IT process automation, NetIQ, Gartner, ITPA, VMware, Amazon, Cloud, Automation, Workflow, Xen, Rackspace, KVM, Run Book Automation, Hyper-V, Garve Hays, Security Web