My day pretty well always starts, or ends, the same way, with a check round the major manufacturers’ press release sites, and some other sites that general seem to cover all the small, but frequently pretty innovative players. I have been doing this pretty well ever since it became possible on the web, and before that I used various industry magazines to note, yes really write down, what I considered important enough that I wanted …

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Budget season will be starting soon and of course all options for saving money will be required and onto the table go all suggestions. Virtualization is probably under way, so what about the other options that new technology is offering? The popular three are moving to a shared service center, data center consolidation and Business Process Outsourcing, BPO. And circling around these are the issues of software-as-a-service, security, and some very practical issues of exactly …

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I suspect that Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce.com event in San Francisco, drew the eyes of IT practitioners, and very compelling it was too. However, I also expect that at least some of those who followed the proceedings, or are trying to understand exactly where this powerfully emerging new player fits into their environment, were a little lost with some of the keynotes, let alone the product announcements. So before going into this topic a little …

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Sally Hudson, an IDC analyst, positioned the new role of security recently at a high profile global event (the Cloud Identity Summit at the end of July) by defining it as the external necessity for an enterprise to be able to do business with any other enterprise. This is already driving the growth rate which will make a $6 billion market in 2016, at which point it would equate to more than 10% of enterprise …

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