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Sunnyvale, California, USA - July 30, 2019: Cars driving past Apple Park, an iconic building located in Sunnyvale California. This image was taken on the morning of July 30, 2019. Apple Park serves as the international headquarters of Apple, Inc. The roof contains solar arrays that power the building.

The Most Innovative Companies of 2021 According to BCG

By Louis Columbus on May 26, 2021

Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021.  Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for the first time this year. The fastest movers include Toyota, who jumped from 41st to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alphabet, Amazon, apple, BCG's Most Innovative Companies 2021: Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap, Boston Consulting Group, Huawei, ibm, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Pfizer, samsung, Sony, Tesla

Mountain View, USA - March 4, 2015: Microsoft sign at the entrance of their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. One of the main buildings can be seen in the background. Oblique view.

10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Microsoft Azure’s Growth

By Louis Columbus on February 26, 2021

Microsoft Azure revenue grew 50% year-over-year in fiscal Q2, 2021, contributing to a 26% increase in Server products and cloud services revenue. According to the latest earnings call, more than 1,000 Microsoft customers now use Azure Arc to simplify hybrid management and run Azure services across on-premises, multi-cloud and at the edge. Commercial cloud gross […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Azure, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Microsoft Windows Azure

Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise

Event Report: The #CES2021 Preview – What’s Hot And Useful In The Enterprise

By R "Ray" Wang on January 12, 2021

Virtual CES Kicks Off The Conference Season For 2021 Source: R Wang This year’s CES will be all virtual as with all pandemic events.  Last year they brought in more than 171,000 guests, 6500 press and media, and had almost 3 million net square feet of exhibits with 4419 exhibiting companies.  As one of the […]

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Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

By Louis Columbus on January 4, 2021

Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Alert AA20-352A, FireEye, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, SolarWinds, SolarWinds breach, Zero Trust Security

Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards

Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards

By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2020

By The Constellation Research Team The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history.  Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a […]

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Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software

Burning Platform: Wall Street and Enterprise Software

By Vinnie Mirchandani on December 4, 2020

Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series – see index here. For the next few episodes, I will be joined by guest analysts and industry observers. Rob Kugel, SVP & Research Director of Office of Finance…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Burning Platform, Enterprise Software (IBM, Enterprise Software (other vendors), M&A in Technology, microsoft, New Normal COVID-19, oracle, sap

The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace

The Analyst Cam: Zoho Workplace

By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 17, 2020

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Zoho launched Workplace last month – it is a suite of 9 applications to…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Analyst Cam, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software (IBM, microsoft, oracle, SaaS, sap

5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks

5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks

By Louis Columbus on August 23, 2020

Global mobile phishing attempts surged by 37% amid shift to work-from-home for the thousands of businesses needing to adhere to shelter-in-place directives. According to Verizon, over 90% of breaches start with a phishing attack and with more than 60% of emails being read on mobile, mobile phishing is one of the fastest-growing threat categories in […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CISO, cybersecurity, google, Louis Columbus' blog, Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, microsoft, MobileIron Mobile Threat Defense, phishing, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Verizon’s Mobile Security Index 2020, Zero Trust Security

Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure

Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure

By Louis Columbus on June 22, 2020

Bottom Line:  Excelling at compliance doesn’t protect any business from being hacked, yet pursuing a continuous risk management strategy helps. With a few exceptions (such as spearphishing), cyberattacks are, by nature, brutally opportunistic and random. They are driven to disrupt operations at best and steal funds, records, and privileged access credentials at worst. Conversely, the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services Security, Centrify, Cyberattacks, Identity-Centric PAM, Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Palo Alto Networks

How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security

How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security

By Louis Columbus on June 6, 2020

Bottom Line:  Endpoint security business cases do much more than just quantify costs and benefits; they uncover gaps in endpoint and cyber protection that need urgent attention to avert a breach. Bad actors and hackers prefer to attack threat surfaces that are isolated, vulnerable with out-of-date security patches, yet integrated into a corporate network to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged absolute software, cybersecurity, Gartner cybersecurity, Gartner ISM, Kount, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, pandemic, RSA Conference 2020, SIEM, Zero Trust Security

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