By R "Ray" Wang on December 23, 2020
By The Constellation Research Team The 2020 Awards Demonstrate The Power Of Humanity Amidst A Global Pandemic And Mass Digitization What started out as an amazing beginning to a new decade ended with one of the worst economies and global health crises in history. Cultural, technological, and business model changes that would have taken a […]
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By Louis Columbus on July 3, 2020
Bottom Line: Knowledge-sharing networks have been improving supply chain collaboration for decades; it’s time to enhance them with AI and extend them to resellers to revolutionize channel selling with more insights. The greater the accuracy and speed of supply chain-based data integration and knowledge, the greater the accuracy of custom product orders. Add to that […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, AI Adoption in Enterprises, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services, Artificial intelligence, BMC ADE, BMC Automated mainframe intelligence (AMI), Capgemini, Google Voice, Knowledge-sharing networks, Louis Columbus' blog
By Louis Columbus on June 22, 2020
Bottom Line: Excelling at compliance doesn’t protect any business from being hacked, yet pursuing a continuous risk management strategy helps. With a few exceptions (such as spearphishing), cyberattacks are, by nature, brutally opportunistic and random. They are driven to disrupt operations at best and steal funds, records, and privileged access credentials at worst. Conversely, the […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services Security, Centrify, Cyberattacks, Identity-Centric PAM, Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Palo Alto Networks
By Louis Columbus on December 20, 2019
Tim Steinkopf is CEO at Centrify, where he leads the management, strategic direction, and execution of the company’s vision. Tim initially joined Centrify as Chief Financial Officer in October 2011 and took over as CEO in January 2019. Before Centrify, he held CFO positions at Secure Computing Corporation (acquired by McAfee), SumTotal Systems, Purfresh, and […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Centrify, CEO, cybersecurity, CyberSecurity CEO, google cloud platform, Louis Columbus' blog, Microsoft Azure, Multi-cloud Privileged Access Management, privileged access credentials, security breach, Tim Steinkopf
By Louis Columbus on November 30, 2019
60% of security and IT professionals state that security is the leading challenge with cloud migrations, despite not being clear about who is responsible for securing cloud environments. 71% understand that controlling privileged access to cloud service administrative accounts is a critical concern, yet only 53% cite secure access to cloud workloads as a key […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Centrify, centrify privileged access management, cybersecurity, Louis Columbus' blog, Privileged Access Management, Shared Responsibility Model, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security
By Louis Columbus on August 25, 2019
Bottom Line: Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralizes identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn’t go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM) that enterprises need today. AWS provides a baseline level of support for Identity and Access Management at no charge as part of their AWS instances, as do […]
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By Louis Columbus on August 5, 2019
Since 2010 Amazon has grown its patent portfolio from less than 1,000 active patents in 2010 to nearly 10,000 in 2019, a ten-fold increase in less than a decade. Amazon heavily cites Microsoft, IBM, and Alphabet, with 39%, 32% and 28% of Amazon’s total Patent Asset Index Amazon’s patent portfolio is dominated by Cloud Computing, […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 15, 2019
An all-time high 48% of organizations say cloud BI is either “critical” or “very important” to their operations in 2019. Marketing & Sales place the greatest importance on cloud BI in 2019. Small organizations of 100 employees or less are the most enthusiastic, perennial adopters and supporters of cloud BI. The most preferred cloud BI […]
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By Louis Columbus on April 14, 2019
Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud service market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $331.2B in 2022, attaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%. Spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is predicted to increase from $30.5B in 2018 to $38.9B in 2019, growing 27.5% in a year. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is predicted to grow […]
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By Louis Columbus on January 13, 2019
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported $6.6B in revenue for Q3, 2018 and $18.2B for the first three fiscal quarters of 2018. AWS revenue achieved an impressive 46% year-over-year net sales growth between Q3, 2017 and Q3, 2018 and 49% year-over-year growth for the first three quarters of the year. AWS’ 34% market share is more significant […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, AWQS EC2, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Console, Centrify, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Louis Columbus' blog, MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication, Next-Gen Access, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security, ZTS