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Friday, February 25th, 2011
I was invited to meet with some of the brightest individuals representing various military branches not long ago to discuss my views on potential security technology looking forward to 2020. These individuals, who work for a Department of the Navy organization called the Strategic Studies Group, came armed with a few articles that I authored [...]
Monday, February 21st, 2011
When talking about moving applications, data, and users to the cloud, security is always the first concern. IT leaders proposing a cloud computing strategy have to deal with two seemingly conflicting facts: (1) the cloud is not secure, and (2) the cloud is secure. The truth is, the cloud is as secure as your IT [...]
Monday, February 21st, 2011
You might remember that Unisys commissioned an in-depth study on the consumerization of IT from IDC in 2010. It exposed a serious gap between how IT leadership and information workers view the IT support capabilities provided by their organizations. The full body of data uncovered by IDC was so rich that we decided to present the results [...]
Monday, February 21st, 2011
As you might have read, Unisys issued an announcement last week introducing its new Application Modernization Platform as a Service (AMPSSM) offering. The subscription-based service will help federal government agencies eliminate many of the challenges associated with modernizing their legacy software applications. A panel of Unisys executives convened to record a podcast that explains how [...]
Monday, February 14th, 2011
National and enterprise security headlines remain focused on the policy, people, and tactical weaknesses that continue to put data at risk. Read on to see what IT security experts say are the looming problems and smartest solutions. Government Technology reports that National Security Cyberspace Institute was unimpressed by the Obama administration’s cybersecurity: White House Gets Average [...]
Monday, February 14th, 2011
We normally talk about issues related to security here, but today we wanted to note Unisys’ introduction of what is, as far as we know, the first application modernization and development solution offered on a subscription basis. It has implications for virtually all areas of mission-critical enterprise applications and enterprise IT. If this sounds interesting, [...]
Monday, February 14th, 2011
The consumerization of IT is driving economic change at a level not seen since the global spread of industrial technology a hundred years ago. What was known as “Web 2.0” early in this century, and the business and consumer applications it wrought, continue to evolve at a blinding pace. Just last summer the world met [...]
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Unisys issued an announcement today regarding its new Application Modernization Platform as a Service (AMPSSM) offering, a subscription-based service to help federal government agencies reduce the cost, complexity, risk, and time involved in modernizing their legacy software applications. A recent study by MeriTalk and the Unisys Center for Innovation in Government found that four out [...]
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Our colleague Sid Pearl, Global Industries director of Risk Intelligence Solutions Management at Unisys, recently shared his views on the Unisys Security Index blog about the top threats IT will face in 2011. At the heart of Sid’s outlook are several risk factors driven by consumer-powered IT. Sid covers these issues and, more importantly, suggests [...]
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
My earlier post on the announcement that Unisys will migrate the General Services Administration to Google Apps for Government talked about why the announcement was getting so much attention. Today I want to explore some of the reasons why this announcement is an historic one. I don’t use the word “historic” lightly. But GSA’s decision [...]
