Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring iPad
From Trefis.com
Apple Stock: iPad Business More Valuable Than Mac Desktops - We estimate that Apple’s iPad business accounts for 4% of the $267 Trefis price estimate for Apple’s stock compared to about 3% for Apple’s Mac desktop business…
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Dell
From Trefis.com
Trefis Analysis: Notebook PCs 17% of Dell’s Stock on February 25, 2010 Dell shipped an additional 1.2 million notebook PCs in 2009 over 2008. We expect growth in the global notebook market to drive Dell’s notebooks sales in the future…
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Cisco
From Trefis.com
Trefis, named for its focus on trends, forecasts, and insights, is revolutionary in its forward-looking approach to stock analysis, which incorporates an intuitive look at the relationship between a company’s product divisions and its stock price. Services for Routers and Switches Make up 18% of Cisco’s Stock - Cisco makes a significant amount of money by providing troubleshooting and maintenance services to its hardware customers….
Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Apple
From Trefis.com
While many will equate the mobile age with just cell phones, the reality is that many new devices with entirely new use cases will enter our lives and create amazing experiences. This mobile age will require companies to have deep expertise in BOTH hardware and software to create breakthrough products, and I am bullish on Apple because I believe they uniquely have both the hardware and software skills to lead this transformation…
Afraid of the Cloud? Ask the Right Questions
By Greg George, Managing Partner of GTI Advisors
What if your vendor is acquired, are there assurances in your service agreement allowing you to opt out if you choose to – if so, will all your data be deleted? What if you vendor is acquired by a company based in a foreign country? Maybe the acquiring company ceo, also a peoples republic of china communist party official, will assure you your data has been deleted. All in all – right now, using SaaS simply comes down to a judgment call, what is in the best interest of your firms operations: ease of access, work flow and cost benefits vs. associated risks…
China: Internet Freedom Is Culturally Relative
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
We have had a few weeks to absorb the implications of wide spread Chinese supported attacks against Google and thirty or so other organizations. The US Secretary of State made one of the most affirmative statements on Internet freedom yet articulated by a government. Various policy analysts have chimed in as well. Some thoughts on what they have said…
Behavioral Based Email Security Systems
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
There needs to be a change to email security if we want to stop seeing high profile security breeches such as the ones that hit Hotmail and Google in 2009, and the America law firm Gipson Hoffman & Pancione more recently. The problem is, most email filtering systems will trust the email address and therefore allow it through.
Technology Drives New Age of Collaboration
By Christopher Burgess, Senior Security Adviser
Are you embracing the collaboration phenomenon that has been storming, complete with thunder, lightning and rain over the past few years? Or have you been hiding under an umbrella to avoid this social media storm? Yes, we are all interconnected, whether we want to be, are expected to be, or prefer not to be. We are, as they say in poker, all in, as collaboration is here to stay ― and it’s driven by technology…
China is Engaging in Cyber Espionage
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
China is engaging in systematic industrial and military espionage via the Internet. Do not be surprised as more and more organizations announce that they too have been targets. For that matter, do you know if your own organization has been the victim of Chinese cyber spying?
On Privacy and Cloud Computing Challenges
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI
Businesses need to scrutinize the information security and privacy programs and practices of vendors and other business partners, and the cloud computing tools, applications and services should be viewed no differently. If your business is entrusting critical processing and data to another entity, you should first ensure it is trustworthy, secure and will meet your organization’s compliance obligations…
