By Louis Columbus on March 24, 2019
Bottom Line: Instead of only relying on security vendors’ claims about Zero Trust, benchmark them on a series of five critical success factors instead, with customer results being key. Analytics, Zero Trust Dominated RSA Analytics dashboards dominated RSA from a visual standpoint, while Zero Trust Security reigned from an enterprise strategy one. Over 60 vendors claimed […]
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By Louis Columbus on November 30, 2018
Enterprises increased their investments in IoT by 4% in 2018 over 2017, spending an average of $4.6M this year. 38% of enterprises have company-wide IoT deployments in production today. 84% of enterprises expect to complete their IoT implementations within two years. 82% of enterprises share information from their IoT solutions with employees more than once […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Cisco, F5, Idaptive, industrial internet of things, Intelligent Enterprise Index, Internet of Things, IoT, Louis Columbus' blog, Palo Alto Networks, Zebra Technologies, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security
By Louis Columbus on October 25, 2018
41% of total breaches in 2017 targeted the healthcare industry, making it the most popular target for breach attempts. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) combined with user credentials tops the percentage of breaches with 29% according to Wipro’s report. 88 records were lost or stolen every second in 2017 according to Wipro’s analysis. Machine learning & […]
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By Louis Columbus on July 30, 2013
What sets apart the fastest-growing small businesses is their an innate strength at turning data and information into results. It’s becoming easy to spot a smaller business who is going to break out and grow quickly. They often have these qualities: they highly value knowledge, expertise and speed over seniority or cronyism; they have successfully […]
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By Louis Columbus on July 15, 2013
Comparing the latest Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) List Of Top 100 Global Software Leaders published in May of this year with current Glassdoor ratings based on employee feedback provides valuable insights into the best software companies to work for in 2013. The Glassdoor ratings of the percentage of employees who would recommend their employer to […]
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By Louis Columbus on August 27, 2012
Google’s top advertising customers are pushing for convergence of mobile and video quickly, which is turning into a strong catalyst of growth of the global mobile video market. With their largest advertising customers wanting greater flexibility in bringing video to mobile devices, Google will make significant strides this year to make that happen. During their latest earnings call, Google execs said that Android, […]
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By Denis Pombriant on May 9, 2012
Sustainability and CRM There was an interesting article in the New York Times last week, “When Flying 720 Miles Takes 12 Hours” about airlines but the subtext was all about CRM, or at least where CRM has to go. If you know me at all, you know I closely attend to macroeconomics and energy […]
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By Phil Wainewright on April 25, 2012
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s another of my predictions. But it suddenly struck me this week, as I read about the latest developments in cloud networking. Five or so years from now, the day will come when Cisco will have shrunken almost to nothing, eaten by software. Marc Andreessen’s phrase, “software is eating the world,” […]
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By Denis Pombriant on September 21, 2011
Marc Benioff’s Facebook page says that Salesforce.com is a rising leader in the effort to get carbon out of business. I didn’t know there was such a survey or report but I am glad there is. Getting carbon out of your business processes is hugely important. While most people will view this as an anti-pollution […]
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