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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.
Welcome to Bloor
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.
State of Industrial and OT Security Report 2018
Bloor Research undertook a survey of 370 industrial organisations to ascertain what security measures they are taking to secure their operational technology (OT) networks.
Enterprise Service Virtualisation
This report discusses the service virtualisation space and evaluates the products therein.
IBM – Rational Test Virtualization Server
This paper discusses and evaluates Rational Test Virtualization Server, IBM’s service virtualisation offering.
CA Service Virtualization
This paper discusses and evaluates CA Service Virtualization, a service virtualisation solution for both simulating and testing your services.
SmartBear ServiceV Pro
This paper discusses SmartBear ServiceV Pro, a service virtualisation solution that forms a part of SmartBear’s API Lifecycle suite of testing tools.
Tricentis Tosca Orchestrated Service Virtualization
This paper discusses and evaluates Tricentis Tosca Orchestrated Service Virtualization.
Parasoft Virtualize
This paper discusses Parasoft Virtualize, a service virtualisation solution that can be used either stand-alone or in conjunction with other Parasoft products.
RedisGraph
This paper discusses RedisGraph, the graph database module for Redis.
StreamAnalytix
This paper discusses and evaluates StreamAnalytix, an analytics platform for both real-time, streaming data and for batch processing.
Kx Systems
Kx technology supports the rapid analysis of time-series data and, more generally, the analysis of streaming, in-memory and historical data.
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.