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Nemertes Impact Analysis

The Impact Analysis is a weekly quick-take on breaking IT news. 
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Nemertes Impact Analysis

The Impact Analysis is a weekly quick-take on breaking IT news. 
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My dad just got new hearing aids. They are very cool with the ability to change the sensitivity based on the situation. For example, in a restaurant there is one setting that will cut out low and high frequency noise and amplify the frequency range associated with human voice. There is another setting for a quiet room where all frequencies are amplified with equal volume. There are a few other settings and of course there’s the setting associated with not listening to me

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Cisco gets Agitated Over Wifi

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and privately held Agito Networks, announced last week
that Cisco would use Agito's wifi integration technology to deliver fixed mobile
convergence (FMC) capabilities.

Nemertes' recent study, Advanced Communications Services: Next generation
Wireless, finds that FMC is interesting to the enterprise IT, but that
adoption has been slowed by carriers' reluctance to provide FMC services, and of
enterprises to cede network control. This announcement, as well as offerings by
other vendors, such as privately held DiVitas, does a neat end run around the
issues.

Impacts:

Two of my favorite movies are Crimson Tide and The Hunt for Red October. OK, so I’ve just aged myself…. But, I’m intrigued by sonar and how it’s used. There is the active sonar that sends out pings that generate that classic submarine sound: PINGggggggg! In IT terms, this is just like using Nessus to actively scan a FW, looking for open ports and possible vulnerabilities: ping!

Why does good IT planning not translate into good IT execution as often as we’d like?

When is the last time you heard someone in IT say triumphantly “Everything went according to plan!”. Not often… IT is one of those fields (like medicine and meteorology) that combines immense complexity with non-deterministic systems. In IT’s case, the non-deterministic part is human behavior, both users’ and administrators’.

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Cisco Gets "Down and Dirty" Without SOAP

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced "Etch", a new messaging protocol for
client/server and web services integration. Cisco positions Etch as a more
streamlined protocol than Simple Object Oriented Protocol (SOAP), and thus
better suited as an integration protocol between a Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and unified communications. This announcement is in line with findings in
Nemertes benchmark, Service-Oriented Architectures and Applications, that
half the participants are integrating their unified communications applications
into their SOA.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Etch is one of many message protocols, including SOAP. Focus on
SOA as the framework to support whatever protocol is best for your requirements.

Vendors: Other vendors (i.e. privately held Avaya) have been promoting
existing protocols for SOA integration with UC. Market flux means vendors
developing interoperable products will need to support multiple protocols.

Investors: It's too early to tell if this is just YAP (Yet Another Protocol)
or something with investment impact.

http://www.nemertes.com/benchmarks/nemertes_benchmark_softwareoriented_architectures_and_applications
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9088338&source=rss_news50

Ted Ritter, Research Analyst

The challenge for rules-based systems is that humans inject so much variability that determinism itself is suspect. In fact, one can argue that determinism is inversely related to the level of human involvement: the more we muck with things, the less deterministic the outcomes.

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All The Network You're Entitled To Use: Rohati Systems Network Based Entitlement Management

Privately held Rohati Systems announced its "Transaction Networking System,"
a session- and transaction-aware application security proxy appliance for nearly
any networked application.

Increasing awareness of data leaks and insider threats have raised concern
about identity and access management among IT executives; more than 25% of
participants in Nemertes' benchmark, Security and Information Protection,
identified it as a 2008 spending priority. By embedding role-and
identity-based access control invisibly in the network, Rohati simplifies
implementation of role-based access control systems.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Embedding entitlement enforcement in the network can solve
security problems for SOA, Web 2.0, and legacy applications -- explore the
option!

Vendors: Rohati, like Cisco's planned TrustSec architecture, moves
server-based security function into the network. Have a strategy for moving your
own security products into the network.

Investors: Rohati's approach challenges connector- or client-based solutions,
such as those from Tipping Point (NASDAQ:COMS), Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL), Oracle
(NASDAQ:ORCL), and Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA)

http://www.nemertes.com/products_services/research/benchmarks/nemertes_benchmark_security_and_information_protection
http://www.rohati.com/newsandevents/press-launch-release_05192008.php

John E. Burke, Principal Research Analyst