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A well-known security meme is that “encryption is easy, it’s key management that’s hard.” But while this may be true for certain encryption use cases, it’s most definitely not true across the board. It’s a convenient meme for vendors, of course, who’ll simply point at a “we use AES” or “we’re FIPS 140-2 validated” statement [...]

Dear CloudTechEtc Blogosphere, The powers that be (my boss) have seen fit to let me on the Gartner Blogger Network. My coverage area is the management and operations of virtualization and cloud infrastructure. Other interests run across technology adoption, innovation and change, competitive strategy, organizational culture, marketing, social media, the attention economy, and on and [...]

While in New York recently, I had the opportunity to wander by Lester Wunderman’s office (accompanied by CMO Trish Wheaton who generously made the introduction). At age 91, he’s sharp as a tack and ventures into the office everyday (saying, “what else would I do?”).  Well, I can think of plenty of things I’d do, [...]

SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando 2012 is officially over. All sessions are done. Van Halen finished their last set. And everyone is heading home (hence the later posting of this recap). What a whirlwind of activity these past three days were, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to participate – as is the case with everyone [...]

OK, so this is a little lame, but here goes…   (BYOD = Bring Your Own Device. BYOB = Bring Your Own Bottle.) Read this post in source website.

Google is about to get a whole lot more useful. Yesterday, the search titan announced the “Knowledge Graph” a functional enhancement that attempts to provide actual information about the subject of your query rather than just a list of links. This might be helpful, but the really interesting bit is the part about the graph. [...]

by John Schweitzer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Analytics, SAP Earlier this week, I kicked off the Analytics campus at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando and was thrilled to talk about SAP’s “Decision Revolution.” More than ever before, SAP is focused on changing how our customers make better, more informed decisions. Every day, companies are [...]

The energy remained high throughout day two, and my partner-in-crime, Marie Alami, and I enjoyed filming the day two recap videos. Our colleagues were excited about the day’s events. Their insights into what was hot appear in the video recaps below. Again, after you’ve viewed the videos, stop by and see us at the Analytics [...]

To date, most attempts to manage the costs and patterns of IT related energy consumption have focused on events and processes at the infrastructure layer. It is generally recognized that infrastructure level energy consumption management could end up frustrating the legitimate power consumption demands of business critical applications while oversupplying energy to applications that are [...]

It’s an open secret among us identity geeks that, despite all of federated identity’s progress, one thing has lagged significantly: relying party participation1. Getting relying parties to the table, to talk about challenges they have with identity on the Internet, has always been a hard problem. Although the identity community has grown, the number of [...]