Recently, I gave a series of presentations for Check Point Software on “What keeps CISOs awake at night?” The content was based on Quocirca’s discussions with a number of CISOs (chief information security officers) and other research carried out across a range of security issues. The following main themes resonated with the audiences. ...
11/11/2011 | Voyager - CISO.pdf | VIEW
Let’s get a few things out in the air first. Yes, EMC has shown amazing arrogance at times. It has also been stunningly wrong at times, for example when it stated that network attached storage (NAS) was just a stepping stone to storage area networks (SANs), and when it said that the only way to go was private cloud, with neither public and hybrid cloud being seen as having a viable future. ...
11/11/2011 | CloudPro - EMC.pdf | VIEW
Two recent events with rather different audiences reveal that not everyone is convinced that the benefits of technology adoption will be evenly shared. In particular, what was highlighted were some disconnects between organisational gain and personal risk. ...
11/11/2011 | QUO cloud adoption.pdf | VIEW
All businesses are reliant on their IT network to a greater or less extent. Making sure it performs well, is reliable and secure should not be left to chance. ...
02/11/2011 | DFTN Sil for Quo.pdf | VIEW
HP had everything required to be a major cloud player. While the majority go for an approach based around "scale out" (the use of a single chip technology where more pieces are added to give more resource), HP is one of the few with different chip and operating system technologies enabling it to work towards a cloud service that can deal with different workload needs. ...
26/10/2011 | Cloudpro - HP.pdf | VIEW
Cisco has been trying to reinvent itself for a while. Coming from a complete network focus, it slowly morphed into a company with telephony, videoconferencing and other offerings that still played hard to its core competencies. ...
26/10/2011 | Cloudpro - cisco1.pdf | VIEW
From the way social networking is often reported in the media, it would seem to be that traditional customer relationship management (CRM) has had its day, and all companies need to do is to create a Twitter account and a Facebook page and engage prospects and customers through these. However, it is not quite as simple as that, and the devil - as always - is in the detail. ...
24/10/2011 | Embracing social CRM - cw.pdf | VIEW
The benefits of staff using their own devices for work outweigh the risks - and some basic approaches can cut the risks without killing off the positives. ...
17/10/2011 | Quo for silicon - BYOD securing mob workers.pdf | VIEW
There is a paradox at the heart of 21st century business processes. The effective sharing of data makes these processes more efficient but carries an inherent risk that the data may be compromised. ...
10/10/2011 | CRN mobile SMB - Oct 2011.pdf | VIEW
Despite fears of being replaced by robots or computers, the terms that twenty-five years ago described the use of IT in different professional sectors were less about substitution and more about support. Programmers used computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools, doctors used computer aided tomography (CAT) scanners and engineers used computer aided design and manufacturing (CADCAM) systems. ...
02/09/2011 | QUO computer aided.pdf | VIEW
