So what does a 30% increase in Internet-connected devices in one year look like? Try 5.5 million new devices added every day. Gartner says the one of the big winners in this expanding market will be Internet-of-Things services like design, installation and operating contacts. Consumers will deploy most IoT devices, but businesses will account for [...]
Tick-tock, tick-tock... with every passing day we're getting closer to those 50 billion devices that Cisco estimates will be connected to the Internet by 2020. In anticipation, security conversations around the Internet of Things (IoT) are heating up. At the September Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit,analysts said that companies need to consider a holistic [...]
Gartner's "Dirty Dozen," the most common and often overlooked issues found in network security, is based on more than 3,000 client interactions over the last year. How many of these worst practices do you have in your network? They say avoiding these practices and instigating both short and long term changes will improve security while [...]
If you are one to enjoy the big promises and excitement around high tech, the recent Gartner report of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies featured an exciting battle between two hype heavyweights: Big Data and The Internet of Things. The free special report, has been published for 20 years chronicling the advancement of technologies [...]
IT leaders are less focused on cutting costs and turning their attention to the broader goal of building the business. In a recent survey by McKinsey of 800 IT executives, those citing their top priority as reducing IT costs dropped from 44 percent to 31 percent since 2011. "Improving the effectiveness of business processes" now [...]
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published a market perspective on local management technologies, highlighting the Uplogix Local Management Platform. They note an increasing urgency in IT as it deals with a widening human resource gap, ever-present pressures to limit operational expenses, and substantial increases in complexity within IT infrastructure, as driving factors for implementing more [...]
