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Quocirca
Looking under the covers, taking the smoke and mirrors away from vendors' stories, questioning the topics de jour - here, Quocirca's analysts provide their views on the business and technology world and what is of importance to you and your businesses in the real world.
Recent Blog Posts
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 19th December '11 Network and security devices age just like any other IT equipment. As the IT industry moves toward 100 gigabit/second Ethernet and 100 megabit/second broadband connections, many existing devices will no longer cope with traffic volumes. The need to... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 2nd December '11 New Quocirca research (sponsored by on-demand software code security specialist, Veracode) underlines a problem faced by financial services organisations when it comes to security and compliance; they track getting on for twice as many critical... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 17th November '11 It is pretty obvious that to audit the use of IT resources and applications you need to know who is doing what. This is especially true when it comes to system administrators (sys-admins) who are operating with increased levels of privilege.
Certain... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 2nd November '11 From recent briefings with a number of IT security vendors, it would seem that most can now identify any new threat immediately and that at the same time none of them can. This contradiction is down to the “we can, they can’t”... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 28th October '11 A recent new story in New Scientist: “Light is not fast enough for high-speed stock trading”, reminds us how important the speed of network communications has become for some organisations.
….“cable company Hibernia Atlantic... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 26th October '11 A recent Quocirca blog post pointed out there were good business reasons for disclosing data breaches as well as an increasing number of regulatory ones. For those organisations not convinced by these arguments and still intent on attempting to... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 21st October '11 Quocirca saw an estimate recently that IT security managers can spend as much as 30% of their time preparing for and delivering audits. This is mundane and uninteresting work and if it can be automated – all the better. However, recent... |
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Rob Bamforth, Quocirca | 21st September '11 Despite fears of being replaced by robots or computers, the terms that twenty-five years ago described the use of IT in different professional sectors were less about substitution and more about support. Programmers used computer aided software... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 5th September '11 A snippet in Private Eye earlier this year (8 July, 2011) showed how touchy companies can get about the use of their brand names. Following the unfortunate death of a festival goer in a toilet at Glastonbury (who also happened to be a political... |
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Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 3rd August '11 This week Quocirca had a briefing with a security vendor which provided an insight into a fundamental change going on in the use of IT and one of the major drivers for that change. The vendor was Bradford Networks, named not for the city in... |
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