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What's Old Is New Again In Information Security
For many years, the RSA Conference was all about the new new thing. New threats, new compliance mandates, new technologies, etc. At the same time, the industry intelligentsia dismissed staple security technologies like endpoint security and firewalls as boring commodities. Judging by the buzz at RSA 2013, what's old is new again. Firewall and anti-malware chatter was pervasive throughout the... Read More

WHITE PAPER: InterMapper

8 Factors for Selecting SMB Network Monitoring Software
Small-to-medium size businesses (SMB's) have limited IT staff and budgets, yet they still require a monitoring solution for cost-effective equipment diagnosis to maintain a healthy network. Use the checklist in this whitepaper to evaluate software vendors. Learn More

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Forrester - Turn Big Data Inward With IT Analytics
Big data promises to manage your complex business to make better decisions. But the technology services that run your business are also complex. This Forrester report helps leaders prepare for IT analytics that turn big data efforts inward to manage the technology services that run your business. Register now to get the full report. Read Now

The Bad and Ugly at RSA 2013
I was pretty happy with last week's RSA Conference and blogged about some of my positive impressions earlier this week. It's good to see the industry discussion the state of cybersecurity, current challenges, and promising innovation. Still, the RSA Conference is a trade show and trade shows are all about selling products. The capitalist nature of the security industry was on display in several... Read More

Managing a Mobile Workforce
My last posting on Yahoo's byzantine attitude towards mobility pretty much reflects my disgust with 1950's management strategies in general. But perhaps what I should have done was to address the right way, IMHO, to mange a mobile workforce. So, what follows are the techniques I have used, with great success, over the years, in running both my own highly-distributed business as well as large, distributed... Read More

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On the Fast Track to Data
The ongoing data explosion puts organizations in a unique situation. Not only do they operate in a world where information is power, the number of sources and volume of relevant data continues to multiply at unprecedented levels. Read Now!

Surface Pro is making people crazy
I understand that Microsoft is a divisive company. I get it; I really do. Over the years, they've won over a few fans and created more than a few enemies - and both sides are constantly at war. But what's happened since the release of the company's Surface Pro tablet PC was nothing short of incredible. It seemed that an as-yet-unknown feature of Surface Pro was making some journalists a bit crazy.... Read More

How Indiana tried to redefine pi
The spirit of Pi Day has captured my attention today, as I am sure it has for many of you. And nothing had done that more so than an essay recounting a late 19th Century attempt by Indiana legislators to put a stop to all those messy, meandering digits that follow 3.14 and officially declare the value of pi henceforth to be precisely 3.2. Read More

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Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief
Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now.

Dispelling the myths around Tripwire's nCircle acquisition
The security world has been abuzz this week with the news of Tripwire acquiring nCircle. As widely reported Tripwire is about a 100 million dollar revenue company acquired by the private equity group Thomas Bravo about two years ago. nCircle is about a 40 million dollar revenue, venture backed company that was a well-known entry in the vulnerability management and configuration space. Read More

Agile testing is not about automation
I've touched on this subject in a previous post, but this time I want to dive in head-first in response to the following quote from a recently released study on Agile Testing: "Because the ultimate goal of Agile testing is to automate more effectively…" Read More

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