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Bloor is an independent research and analyst house focused on the idea that Evolution is Essential to business success and ultimately survival. For nearly 30 years we have enabled businesses to understand the potential offered by technology and choose the optimal solutions for their needs.
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Restore as a service
Talking to Curtis Preston about Druva’s data-management-as-a-service and its support for AWS Snowball Edge, speeding-up and de-risking cloud transitions.
Summon up your inner Bletchley Park
New storage solutions are able to ingest vast amounts of real-time data from IoT sensors and probes. AI & data analytics solutions decode the data & predict IT Infrastructure problems.
Moving towards a defined reference architecture for Edge Computing
Getting a sensible reference architecture in place that a significant number of Edge players buy into, will go a long way to help Enterprise CIOs make the right Edge investment decisions.
Managing Collaboration
My observation is that a lot of collaboration initiatives never really deliver, and my work experience is that being able to do everything myself better than anyone else is the recipe for personal career success! Nevertheless, I really do believe in collaboration.
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Endpoint Detection and Response
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
Security Response Orchestration
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
Security response orchestration arms organisations with the tools that they need to automate responses where possible, supplementing this with human knowledge and experience where required.
User and Entity Behavior Analytics
Context is king when defending against sophisticated, advanced threats. UEBA technologies provide that context and are a key addition to any security analytics and intelligence capability.
Context is king when defending against sophisticated, advanced threats. UEBA technologies provide that context and are a key addition to any security analytics and intelligence capability.
Encryption
Encryption – and its opposite, decryption – is the process of converting data into code that is unreadable by a human who does not possess the necessary key for decrypting it.
Encryption – and its opposite, decryption – is the process of converting data into code that is unreadable by a human who does not possess the necessary key for decrypting it.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management
Hybrid Infrastructure Management is the monitoring and analysing of your IT infrastructure in a manner that relates to their impact on the performance and availability of your business applications.
Hybrid Infrastructure Management is the monitoring and analysing of your IT infrastructure in a manner that relates to their impact on the performance and availability of your business applications.
Data Governance
Data governance is about ensuring that your organisation's information assets meet corporate policies for accuracy, timeliness, completeness and compliance.
Data governance is about ensuring that your organisation's information assets meet corporate policies for accuracy, timeliness, completeness and compliance.
MaaS –
Mainframe as a Service
MaaS is the simplest and most effective way to modernise mainframe legacy and to make mainframe levels of performance, concurrency, security and reliability available to everyone.
MaaS is the simplest and most effective way to modernise mainframe legacy and to make mainframe levels of performance, concurrency, security and reliability available to everyone.
Test Design Automation
Test design automation provides a potentially massive boost to testing speed and efficiency. Properly leveraged, it can also dramatically improve the end-user experience.
Test design automation provides a potentially massive boost to testing speed and efficiency. Properly leveraged, it can also dramatically improve the end-user experience.
5g, IoT and Edge Computing
Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
GDPR
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
Low-Code/No-Code Development
Low and no-code development allow you to develop applications unprecedentedly quickly and efficiently while enabling citizen development, collaboration and self-service.
Low and no-code development allow you to develop applications unprecedentedly quickly and efficiently while enabling citizen development, collaboration and self-service.
Big Software
Big Software delivers real competitive advantage through significantly lower IT infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy more new business applications faster.
Big Software delivers real competitive advantage through significantly lower IT infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy more new business applications faster.
Endpoint detection and response
EDR supplements traditional endpoint protection by providing capabilities for threat detection and response, going beyond a traditional focus on threat prevention and protection.
The ongoing evolution of SIEM - the value of security insight
SIEM systems are entering a new era. Complementary technologies are creating visibility into networks that are required for actionable security insight.
Streaming Analytics 2018
This Market Update considers both stream processing platforms upon which you might build analytics as well as streaming analytics platforms per se.
IBM Streams and Steaming Analytics
IBM Streams (previously IBM InfoSphere Streams) is a high performance, low latency platform for analysing and scoring data in real-time. It is a part of the IBM Watson & Cloud Platforms.
Software AG Apama
Software AG’s Apama was first released in 2001 as a complex event processing platform targeted at supporting algorithmic trading in capital markets. It remains a market leader in that space though IoT now forms a major target market.
SQLstream
SQLstream Blaze, which is the name for the SQLstream suite of products, is a streaming analytics platform that is available for both on-premises and cloud-based deployments. As it’s name suggests it is based on ANSI standard SQL.
EsperTech
EsperTech is the company behind the open source Esper (Java based) and NEsper (.Net based) products, where the former was one of the first CEP engines to be introduced.
SAS Event Stream Processing
SAS has been offering stream processing for a number of years, especially for fraud applications. However, a major driver is now the Internet of Things (IoT) and applications such as predictive maintenance and smart “anything”.
StreamBase
TIBCO StreamBase is the streaming analytics component of TIBCO’s ‘connected intelligence’ product collection, that allows businesses to better connect, understand and interact with their data.
Striim
Striim is a streaming integration and analytics platform. Without de-emphasising the latter, it focuses on the former.
Security Response Orchestration
Security response orchestration enables automated incident response when appropriate, augmented with human knowledge for better-informed decision making.
User and Entity Behavioural Analytics
UEBA technologies focus on identifying patterns of activity that are outside of the normal patterns expected in order to identify activity that could be suspicious or clearly malicious.