NAC Needs to Find Its Place in a Mobile World

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Info-Tech

Network access control, or NAC, has only been around for a few years, but has already gone through several evolutionary leaps. The latest selective pressure–one that is transforming many technological entities–is the smartphone. With users bringing a variety of their … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged mdm, mobile device management, mobile management, nac, network access control, network-security | Comments Off

 

 

LMA: From lead, to qualified prospect, to customer

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Info-Tech

Everyone is engaged in online activities that are leaving behind more and more nuggets of information that are critical in order to build a comprehensive profile of people as prospective buyers. Web 1.0 data from website visits and search engines … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged lead-management-automation, leads, lma, LMA vendors, marketing, marketing-automation, media, networking, prospects, sales, social-media | Comments Off

 

 

Microsoft is VMware’s only real competitive threat

Posted on April 13, 2012 by John Sloan

Let me be clear here right from the start. In server virtualization, there are a number of worthy competitors to industry leading VMware. But as virtualization becomes mainstream for most organizations, the only vendor that has any kind of chance … Continue reading →

Posted in Infrastructure, News & Analysis, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged Citrix, hyperv, hypervisor, kvm, microsoft, microsystems, server, server-virtualization, vdi, virtualization, VMWare, xenserver | Comments Off

 

 

Just Do It: Strategic Workforce Planning

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Info-Tech

Strategic workforce planning is a skill that takes practice. Info-Tech’s recent survey shows that the greatest barrier to strategic workforce planning is a lack of strategy development knowledge. This is encouraging, because compared to excuses like, “things change too fast” … Continue reading →

Posted in Governance, What's New in Research | Tagged capacity, IT roles, IT skills. skill gaps, organizational design, redeployment, strategic workforce planning | Comments Off

 

 

Systems Management: Tearing Down the Walls between Mainframes and x86 Servers

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Info-Tech

By Frank Trovato, a Research Analyst specializing in mainframe technology and mission critical systems for Info-Tech Research Group. In my blog post Disco Fever Hits SHARE 2012 Enterprise IT Conference, I described solutions that integrate the mainframe’s high-volume data processing … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Topics, Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged BMC, CA Technologies, ibm, Mainframe, servers, SHARE conference, Tivoli, x86 | Comments Off

 

 

 

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