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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Could you summarize BMC’s philosophy in terms of your product roadmap in the area of the cloud? Mark Settle: We have a SaaS offering for one of our principal offers, our remedy service staff solution. Now customers can implement that on campus, as they have done in the past. They basically have access to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: There have been attempts to solve certain problems. But right now there is a larger focus on big data which is driving toward the mid-market. That is one of the trends I see. Certain corporations have tackled the big data problem for a long time by investing in big systems and custom-built solutions.
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 4)
MS: There is an interesting site for travel agents. You, as the buyer of the vacation, enter a description of the type of vacation you want: if you want it to be a romantic experience, an athletic experience, a trip with your wife, etc. So, you provide a broad outline of the experience you are
Deal Radar 2009: Coverity
One of the reviewers of EJ2: Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon wrote: “I don’t think it was appropriate to even mention venture capital or angel investors in this book.” My response was, “One of the nuggets that I have picked up from my experience navigating the entrepreneurial waters is that it is wise
Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 4)
By Guest Author Taher Elgamal In my most recent post I introduced the idea that while the information security industry must build products that enable end users to trust networked systems, business needs often conflict with end user needs. This post considers business versus consumer information security products in more detail through the discussion of
Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 3)
By Taher Elgamal, Guest Author I continue my discussion of how to trust essentially untrustworthy networks, software, and hardware by addressing what works and what sells in the information security industry. In last week’s post, I outlined strategies we can implement to build customer trust in networked systems. Here I begin to look at the problem from an
Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 1)
By Dr. Taher Elgamal, Guest Author [SM: Readers have read my interview series with Taher earlier. It is my pleasure to welcome this Security industry thought leader to shed some light on the past, present and future of Security.] It is one of our biggest dilemmas in modern computing: can we trust running our lives
