Those of us in the industry who have been around the block somewhat, shall we say, and worked in end user compute when it was still called terminal services will remember when there seemed to be only two players in the game: Microsoft and Citrix. Then, along came this little upstart from Pennsylvania called IndependenceIT. …
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Recently I was invited to participate as a delegate at Tech Field Day 16 in Austin, Texas, where we visited with Forcepoint. Forcepoint is a company with a combined portfolio that includes user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA). UEBA’s primary focus is determining what is normal for a user and then deciding if a given …
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What does the cloud vendor results tell us about 2017? According to the results from Cleveland Research, cloud vendors reported a banner year for 2017 that was an increase of 48% year over year. These overall results are on the high end of the 40% – 50% that was the expected targets and come in totaling $38.6 billion. The fourth quarter in 2017 had an accelerated growth to 50%, which is an overall increase of 4% in comparison to the prior quarter that came in with a 46% growth.
Citrix Acquires Cedexis and CloudJumper Acquires IndependenceIT On February 12, Citrix announced that it has acquired Cedexis, a Portland-based leader in the Internet traffic management space. On February 13, CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) provider, announced that it has purchased IndependenceIT, a purpose-built virtualization platform for service providers. The specific details of each …
There are many ways to define scale. There is scale related to business, there is scale related to IT, and there is scale related to business functions. Actually, when you get right down to it, there are a number of ways to define scale. It depends entirely on your point of view. Given this, there …
In light of industry news and financials reported by industry leaders at the end of last year, all indicators are pointing toward a very strong outlook for the market as we adventure into the year 2018.
