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Cisco Named Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

- Alert) is known for providing a suite of unified communications solutions for a wide range of mobile devices. With the variety of devices being used by employees everywhere, multi-vendor UC client support is essential, but Cisco has provided it well.  It’s also listed as number one in regards to “Ability to Execute,” based on quality, maturity, and breadth of its applications, as well as its ability to deliver solutions.

However, Gartner also recognizes the growing role of cloud services, as mentioned in its study “Predicts 2012: Successful UC Deployments Depend on Defining Organizational Objectives and Understanding the Challenges.” In the next four years, many more organizations will use a hosted subscription model for their UC services, and Cisco is already on board for that. Customers can deploy Cisco’s UC solution from virtual desktop integration options, or with a fully or partially hosted model through a subscription-based offering.

“Enterprises wish to avoid ‘closed gardens’ and weak support for standards to ensure choice and control,” say Bern Elliot and Steve Blood of Gartner. “Support for standards is a critical consideration, as enterprises wish to integrate their UC deployments with business partners, customers, business applications and third-party products.” In these regards, Cisco has certainly met Gartner’s standards, with standards supported deployments that work with a variety of devices.

As the Gartner reports are based on customer success as much as the company’s numbers and technology, this stands as a very nice achievement for Cisco. The company continues to innovate and excel in the market, so this recognition is well deserved, and will not likely be its last.

The full report can be found through Cisco’s website.

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Edited by Rich Steeves

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MacBook Pro with Retina Display Named Editors’ Choice

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American Technology Services Named by Talkin' Cloud 100 for Second Consecutive Year

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Trustwave Provides Security for the Cloud Named Leader in 2012 Forrester Report

By Kerry Doyle
Contributing Writer

Each major transition that IT has gone through over time has led to an increase in the need for efficient security. The major shifts have been things like mainframes to client-server networks and more recently to Web applications. Today, the cloud’s shared computing process presents another major change because it eliminates the security perimeter present in most on-premise computing systems, which has always protected enterprises.

Currently, there’s also a level of unrestricted access that introduces new opportunities for cyber-criminals—for example, smart device application downloading presents anytime/anywhere data access and social media collaboration. Each of these present new and significant security challenges. Now, there is a need to balance the benefits of the cloud and the consumerization of IT while minimizing the risks. To that end, Trustwave, a global provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, announced it has been named a “Leader” in the March 2012 “Forrester (News - Alert) Wave: Managed Security Services: North America, Q1 2012” report.

According to Leo Cole, chief marketing officer at Trustwave, “We believe that recognition as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Managed Security Services validates the innovation and work we have done to reduce the complexity of protecting data and help organizations focus on what they do best: running their business -- while we run their security. Unlike many managed security service providers who deliver just foundational security, we provide our customers with higher-value, unified managed security solutions spanning compliance, application, network and data security solutions -- enhanced by Trustwave SpiderLabs' threat intelligence.”

Companies need to be more proactive about security, such as identifying critical IT services that support sensitive data and understanding vulnerabilities of those systems. It’s more effective for enterprises to anticipate, close up, and protect vulnerabilities in advance than to rectify the problem after security has been breached.

Some of the vendor evaluation criteria for being included in the Forrester report included a complete suite of managed security services, a strong presence in North America, significant interest from Forrester customers and substantial annual managed security services revenues, among other requirements.

While there is executive awareness of necessary security and attacks related to cloud, social media, and mobile devices, cyber-criminals have found more surface vectors and increased opportunities for attacks. Closing those vulnerabilities is a key goal for Trustwave which has one of the industry's most comprehensive security portfolios. The company provides a unique approach with comprehensive solutions that include its TrustKeeper portal and other proprietary security solutions.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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