Consider this: according to research by technology analyst group Gartner, beyond 2010 end users, not the IT department, will be responsible for 50 percent of business IT procurement decisions—ultimately bringing and running their own systems on company networks. Meanwhile, according to management consultants Accenture, around one-third of today’s new generation of workers (a group they call [...]
Personal IT in the Workplace: Bad for Your Business?
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Business Continuity · Managed Services
Thinking About Security in the Cloud?
May 21st, 2010 · No Comments
As we begin to store more and more of our data on the Internet and in the “Cloud,” the threat of that data being accessed and used by someone or something outside of our knowledge or control becomes very real. Data such as credit card information, banking transactions, work history, private addresses and numbers, email [...]
Tags: Cloud · Cloud Computing · Managed Hosting · Microsoft · Security
Release of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls
April 15th, 2010 · No Comments
Gartner recently released the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls where they placed Palo Alto Networks in the visionary quadrant. Gartner acknowledged the following key points about Palo Alto Networks:
“Taking a next-generation firewall approach to the market, Palo Alto Networks saw rapid growth in 2009 and meets the inclusion criteria for this edition of [...]
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The Next-Generation Firewall
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Gartner RAS Core Research’s note “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall” focuses on how “firewalls need to evolve to be more proactive in blocking new threats, such as botnets and targeted attacks. Enterprises need to update their network firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect business systems as attacks get more sophisticated.” (Gartner, 2009)
What exactly is the [...]
Tags: Business Continuity · Firewalls · Managed Services · Security