The Future of IT Organizations – why IT needs a marketing department
16.05.2012 15:30
Some weeks ago we published a report called “The Future of IT Organizations“. This report talks about how to restructure IT Organizations, following the basic structure we propose for IT in the KuppingerCole IT Paradigm. That paradigm is first described in the KuppingerCole Scenario “Understanding IT Service and Security Management”. From our perspective, IT organizations [...] READ MORE
Craig Burton
IIW and VRM Report
15.05.2012 12:09
At the first of the month I attended IIW 14 in Mountain View. I also attended the VRM workshop on the 30th. The VRM workshop was hosted by Ericsson. The IIW was held at the Computer History Museum. Before I summarize what happened at those events, I want to give a little background on IIW. [...] READ MORE
Dave Kearns
Preventing, or surviving, data leaks
10.05.2012 16:54
Just last week it was reported in The Guardian that “Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the [UK] Ministry of Defence.” If the department charged with protecting the country can’t protect its own secrets then what chance does your organization have? This is just the latest (at the [...] READ MORE
Sebastian Rohr
The digital divide in Identity Management
06.05.2012 16:09
My dear friend Mia Harbitz of the Interamerican Development Bank (www.iadb.org) has recently linked me to of what I felt to be one of the most important papers on “Identity Management” since I work in this field. The paper does not analyze the pros and cons of doing bottom-up or top-down role design, nor does [...] READ MORE
European Identity Conference Blog
Videos from the EIC 2012
01.05.2012 21:57
The first keynote videos from the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2012 have been published on our website. Over the course of this week we’re planning to make all keynotes and selected conference sessions available as podcasts. Please note that most of these videos can only be viewed by the conference participants or users having [...] READ MORE
Mike Small
CLOUD COMPUTING DEADLY SINS
01.05.2012 11:45
Adopting Cloud computing can save money, you need to avoid the seven deadly sins. The Cloud provides an increasingly popular way of procuring IT services that offers many benefits including increased flexibility as well as reduced cost. It extends the spectrum of IT service delivery models beyond managed and hosted services to a form that [...] READ MORE
Tim Cole
Stopping a Clapper Over WikiLeaks
27.01.2012 10:24
The U.S. government announced plans to put in place within the next five years measures designed to make it impossible to pass on sensitive information to the likes of WikiLeaks. They hope to accomplish this by “tagging” information so it can be tracked in case someone shares it with outsiders. The idea of creating “information-rich [...] READ MORE
Joerg Resch
Hunting for the latest Android Release?
24.10.2011 10:55
Recently I came across a news alert that Google have released Android 4.0 on some new mobile phone. 4.0 already? That is extreme, Android hasn´t been around that long. It is good on one side, that there seems to be a strong community of developers eliminating bugs and improving on a fast pace. On the [...] READ MORE
Sachar Paulus
News from the Analyst Summit in London
06.06.2011 14:50
Every Summer, Eskenzi PR organizes the IT security analyst and CISO forum. It basically consists of one-on-one meetings between vendors and analysts and round table discussions between vendors, analysts and end-users, typically CISOs. And the event this year was excellent! The quality and density of information is quite high, and it allows to grasp trends, [...] READ MORE
