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Safe Flying in The Cloud: Google and Yahoo Add Security

In a cluster of cloud-based security announcements, both Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)
and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) enhanced their offerings: Google via its Postini
Software division and Yahoo via a partnership with McAfee (NYSE:MFE). Both
announcements affect consumer and enterprise users, though Google's primary goal
is the enterprise. These announcements underscore Nemertes Research's finding in
Nemertes' benchmark, Security and Information Protection, that 67 percent
of participants have avoided using a new service based on security concerns.

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Everyone into the Pool! Storage Virtualization Reaches for
the Desktop

Server and storage virtualization increase utilization and decrease space and
energy footprints by aggregating IT assets into resource pools. Start-up Kapsean
is looking to extend the resource pooling to include desktop computers' disks.

Nemertes' benchmark, New Data Center, found that the majority of
participants already use at least one storage virtualization technology -
chiefly backup to disk. As desktop storage is well suited to this application,
Kapsean's offering may meet with a warm reception if pitched and priced
properly.

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Overview:

Advanced communications services encompass managed and hosted
services providing network connectivity between sites and to the
Internet. Connectivity options typically include MPLS, Ethernet, and/or
fixed/mobile wireless. Additional advanced communications services
include hosted applications such SIP trunking, and voice/video/Web
conferencing. Taken together, these services provide the backbone that
enables businesses to communicate, on a basic level. But they also
provide the means to serve customers, boost sales, and improve employee
productivity.

Providers differentiate their offerings based on price,
availability, speed, reliability, manageability, and functionality.
Advanced services harness new technologies, including third-generation
wireless and advanced internetworking protocols, and required features,
including quality of service and quick response time. And, they
facilitate a collaborative work environment, regardless of location or
communications device being used. This market is rapidly changing as
standards evolve and as businesses adopt new collaborative
technologies.

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Overview:

Advanced communications services encompass managed and hosted
services providing network connectivity between sites and to the
Internet. Connectivity options typically include MPLS, Ethernet, and/or
fixed/mobile wireless. Additional advanced communications services
include hosted applications such SIP trunking, and voice/video/Web
conferencing. Taken together, these services provide the backbone that
enables businesses to communicate, on a basic level. But they also
provide the means to serve customers, boost sales, and improve employee
productivity.

Providers differentiate their offerings based on price,
availability, speed, reliability, manageability, and functionality.
Advanced services harness new technologies, including third-generation
wireless and advanced internetworking protocols, and required features,
including quality of service and quick response time. And, they
facilitate a collaborative work environment, regardless of location or
communications device being used. This market is rapidly changing as
standards evolve and as businesses adopt new collaborative
technologies.

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This market analysis provides an overview of key trends in the MPLS services market,
including common service features, and a detailed feature matrix describing how
service providers differentiate their service offerings in the following areas:

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Wireless/Mobility refers to a class of solutions that lets workers access corporate data remotely, either through data-capable portable devices or through mobility applications that access corporate data over available Internet connections.

The ability to deliver applications and data to mobile workers is quickly rising to the top of the priority list among IT executives. Carriers are responding with a host of services; each of the carriers covered in this market analysis have at least a few wireless offerings. They generally
provide Internet connectivity through a wireless instrument (typically a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, or PDA). Major wireless carriers offer mobile and fixed broadband services, typically using the 2.5G/3G data rates, with plans to move to 3.5G and 4G in the 2009-2011 timeframe.

Published: 03/17/06