Security practitioners have learned the hard way that contract negotiations are critical if their SaaS, cloud and security goals are to work. A report from CSO Perspectives and SaaScon 2010. The term Software as a Service (SaaS) has been around a long time. The term cloud is still relatively new for many. Putting them together [...]
he software-as-a-service (SaaS) security market is booming, according to a report by Infonetics Research, announced on Monday. SaaS security services accounted for 10 percent of the estimated $9.4 billion managed services market in 2010, according to Infonetics. That share is expected to grow to 22 percent by 2014. The report predicts that the SaaS security [...]
Cloud computing offers significant benefits, but will account for only a fifth of overall enterprise IT by 2012 and will leave many businesses disappointed, a Gartner analyst has claimed. Speaking at Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Cannes, Gartner vice president David Cearley said that by 2012, 20% of businesses would be using cloud computing for part [...]
Network equipment giant Cisco Systems is feeling good enough about the economy to rev up its acquisition engine, pledging to spend more than $6 billion in a single month on smaller companies. Cisco on Tuesday announced its third acquisition this month and its sixth acquisition so far this year. The company said it plans to [...]