DO YOU NEED MDM? in the Face of the BYOD Phenomenon, Some Businesses Will Need an All-Encompassing Mobile Device Management Solution
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Begin your It all works together. free trial now at CompWorld.Of ce365.ca Scan this tag with your smartphone to see Of ce 365 in action. 14842_MSA062_Security_ComputerWorld_8.125x10.875.indd 1 2/24/12 10:05 AM AGENDA OPINIONS AND COMMENTARY platform research and develop- fields. Now, the sources of data oretical example of the patterns A big ment for the company. aren’t so structured: we’re deal- that data mining can unlock, It’s a given that technology ing with documents, images, and factually, it wasn’t true. It’s changes everything, but that’s and media files, often without an item of small relevance, but data particularly true in the big data the appropriate meta data; for the fact that it lodged the analytics field. The ability to geo-location data that may or beer-and-diapers model of data ‘aha’ process the analytics of billions may not be associated with a mining in my head for the ensu- of lines of data in memory, inno- transaction; social media feeds ing 15 years. moment vatons like the Hadoop MapRe- wherein context is everything; And it’s a handy model to duce framework for distributed metering data from electrical have when the skeptical say It’s not just computing, and high-perfor- grids; all manner of telemat- that big data analytics is just a mance computing grids make it ics from vehicles, production jumped-up version of data min- scale. There’s possible to perform analytics on machinery, etc. ing. It highlights the fundamen- a fundamental ever increasing amounts of data I remember a story from the tal difference, and my discus- difference between in near-real time. days of yore, when data mining sion with Kent crystalized it: big data analysis On the other side of the was a fresh concept. A colleague data mining is transaction- and data mining equation, we’re collecting more of mine called out a representa- focused, teasing patterns out of and more data to analyze. The tive of one of the vendors over information of limited scope, t may be a buzz phrase, the evolution of data analysis is the beer and diapers issue: ana- where as big data analytics has cloud computing of 2012, but inextricably linked to the evolu- lyze enough transactional data, a behavioural focus. We’re not II do find big data analyt- tion of data collection. In the and you’ll find a pattern that concerned with the transaction, ics fascinating. It’s just the way early days of computing, data suggests people who buy dia- according to Kent, but with my mind works; give me a big was part of the application it- pers also buy beer, so a retailler the behaviour that leads to the enough survey sample, and I self. Move along to the transac- can organize the shelves accord- transaction. Of those many new can entertain myself with pivot tional database model, and data ingly. Said colleague’s complaint types of data outlined a couple tables for hours on end. But I felt is collected from outside the was that the company rep was paragraphs ago, almost all are I needed a better grounding in application, but complying with presenting this as a fact, rather related to behaviour. the concept, so I asked the folks a specific struc- than a the- Knowing your customer is at SAS Canada for a schooling. ture of the first step to knowing what They connected me with Paul behaviour to analyze. Kent, SAS Institute Inc. in — Dave Webb Cary, N.C. Kent is the vice-president of ITWorldCanada.com I MARCH 2012 I 3 O P I N I O N S A N D AGENDA COMMENTARY CONTENT CLOUD: MARCH 2012 It's our new take on the traditional table of contents. Follow the tag reference to the indicated page. In our electronic version, simply touch or click the tag to be transported to the story. PAGE 3 PAGE PAGE 18 4 PAGE 15 PAGE PAGE 10 11 PAGE 16 PAGE 12 ➞ 13 SECURITY MYTHS Some generally-assumed and oft-repeated notions about security may not necessarily be true and we asked security experts to tell us their favorite ‘Security Myths’ and what they think of them. Watch the slide show at http://myi.tw/z9ocpa ➞ FROM DATA MINING TO BIG DATA SAS Can- ada’s Pat Finerty and ComputerWorld Canada editor Dave Webb trace the evolution of data analysis on IN CONVERSATION. 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US104020100248_CA_206x276_28L.indd 1 17.02.12 15:54 GRAPHIC CONTENT 6 I MARCH 2012 I ITWorldCanada.com NEWS I N B R I E F ERICSSON TO BUY will continue to grow over the general manager for AMD’s ibility, security and a better OTTAWA’S BELAIR coming years, and the deal products division. user experience to cloud-based NETWORKS will help accelerate the inte- The move will be seen as applications and services. In LM Ericsson has entered into gration of Wi-Fi and cellular a setback to Intel, which had parallel, Symantec said Tuesday an agreement to buy privately technologies, according to formed a tight partnership it is partnering with VMware to held BelAir Networks, an Ot- Ericsson. with SeaMicro. All the servers integrate five new security com- tawa maker of carrier Wi-Fi Ericsson’s acquisition of SeaMicro currently sells are ponents into the virtualization network equipment, as opera- BelAir doesn’t come as a sur- based on low-power Intel Atom company’s products. tors get increasingly inter- prise, as it has been rumoured, processors, and just a few The new product, called O3, ested in using Wi-Fi to offload and is a good move for the weeks ago the companies held has several components, the their networks. Swedish vendor, according a joint press conference where first of which being released The acquisition will give Eric- to Richard Webb, directing Intel sang SeaMicro’s praises. is cloud identity and access sson a carrier grade Wi-Fi port- analyst at Infonetics. AMD will continue to sell control , a gateway that infor- folio, technological expertise, All the radio base station SeaMicro servers based on mation from users must pass intellectual property rights, and vendors need a Wi-Fi offering, Intel processors “for the fore- through before it reaches the established customer con- because operators are asking seeable future,” Lu said. By cloud. “The new control point tracts and relationships, it for it, he said. the end of this year, she said, allows IT to inject policy into said Tuesday. The terms — Mikael Ricknas it will release the first Sea- the information flow, into the of the transaction were and Howard Solomon Micro servers based on AMD data-stream itself,” says Dave not disclosed. Opteron processors. Elliot, senior product market- Established in 2002, AMD ENTERS Feldman wouldn’t say when ing manager of global cloud BelAir has approxi- CLOUD SERVER SeaMicro and AMD began marketing at Symantec. mately 120 employees. BUSINESS talks but said the deal came Symantec O3 will address It makes outdoor and Advanced Micro Devices about “unbelievably quickly.” two security issues that have indoor fixed and mobile is buying low-power server He said there were other suit- plagued enterprises recently, he equipment. Recently it Bernard vendor SeaMicro, a ors for the company, including says.“Device-centric security announced a small cell Herscovich: surprise move that non-chip vendors.