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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Forrester Names Symplified a Leader in Cloud Identity, Access Management

- Alert) alternatives to on-premises monolithic IAM offerings. Leaders in this market offer SaaS application access control and will continue to have a positive impact by expanding strong authentication, provisioning and attestation capabilities,” analysts wrote in the report. “Symplified provides great access control to SaaS applications. It has its own IP-based solution, which is one of the longest-standing in the cloud IAM market.”

As on-premises IAM solutions mature, according to Forrester, cost savings will dictate which providers will lead the pack. In its evaluation of the six service providers in the cloud IAM category, Forrester touted Symplified for its architectural stability and protocol and endpoint support.

“(Symplified) offers good architectural stability through its Identity Router customer-premises equipment infrastructure, which can be deployed as a software or hardware appliance or as a cloud connector,” the report said. “Symplified offers broad protocol and endpoint support, and it partners with Symantec’s VIP service for strong authentication as well as CSC (News - Alert) for reseller and system integration.”

Symplified is a “pioneer” of cloud-based Single Sign-On (SSO) offering SAML-as-a-Service federation capability since 2006, according to Eric Olden, CEO of Symplified.

“We believe that being recognized as a Leader in Cloud IAM by Forrester further validates our position in the market,” Olden said. “Symplified is leading the way in making cloud SSO secure, simple and seamless – enabling enterprises to better navigate the challenges of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and the proliferation of both public and private cloud-based services and applications.”

Earlier this year, Symplified announced the availability of Symplified Structure, which allows service providers, telcos and cloud application hosting companies to integrate identity and access management (IAM) across their suite of cloud services, MSP News™ reported.

Symplified Structure is built on the company’s IAM platform and can be bundled or embedded into any service provider datacenter and private-label branded. The service can be delivered via the Symplified Trust Cloud that is hosted on the Amazon Web Services (News

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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.

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New Study Shows Microsoft Continues to be the Market Leader in the Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration Market

- Alert) continues to lead the pack in the Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration market with its Microsoft Exchange Server email platform deployed either as an on-premises or a cloud-based solution, according to a just released study by The Radicati Group (News - Alert).

The Radicati Group provides research on messaging and collaboration, security, email archiving, regulatory compliance, wireless technologies, Web services, identity management, instant messaging, unified communications, voice over IP, and more.

In the company’s latest study entitled, "Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook Market Analysis, 2012-2016," The Radicati Group noted that despite the growing popularity of cloud-based computing, on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server deployments still currently account for the majority of Microsoft Exchange Server email hosting mailboxes worldwide.

The Radicati Group in the study provides an in-depth analysis of the penetration of the Microsoft Exchange Server messaging and collaboration platform and its email client Microsoft Outlook, in the enterprise on-premise and cloud-based Messaging and Collaboration market.

According to the study, by the end of 2016 the market share of on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes is expected to show a significant decrease, mainly due to the continuing trend of outsourcing email to hosted and managed providers.

Microsoft's own Office 365 solution, in particular, is expected to drive most of this growth.

The report provides detailed installed base breakouts and four year growth forecasts for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Outlook 2010, and Microsoft Outlook Web App (OWA).

In another study from the company titled, “Microsoft SharePoint Market Analysis, 2012-2016,”,it highlighted a comprehensive analysis of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as on-premises as well as cloud-based solutions, as well as Microsoft SharePoint Online offered as part of Microsoft Office 365.

The report provides extensive data regarding installed base, revenues, and four year forecasts broken out by version, region and business size for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and cloud-based Microsoft SharePoint solutions.

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