Burton Group Inflection Point

Earlier this year Burton Group conducted a study involving dozens of service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative leaders. We interviewed multiple stakeholders in each initiative across eight industry verticals. The goal was to uncover in-depth data on service oriented architecture (SOA) roadmap...

Selecting a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) to perform your attestation of compliance is not as easy as selecting a company from a list. Just like any intimate relationship, you need to know what your needs are...

In the first half of 2008, Burton Group conducted a study involving network and security specialists that mostly represented large enterprise organizations. The purpose of this network security research project was to uncover some of the organizational, governance, and business...

In this Data Center Strategies podcast, analyst Gene Ruth examines the technology of solid state disks. SSDs based on flash technology are getting interesting for data centers. While originally criticized for poor reliability and write performance, vigorous research is addressing...

At Catalyst Conference North America, Chris Howard and Mike Rollings sat down to talk about Howard's Catalyst presentation and research on SOA fatigue. Howard points out that the fatigue results from the waiting on SOA to succeed and the benefits...

Software as a Service (SaaS) is gathering momentum as an alternative to build-it-yourself solutions, especially as the global economy tightens. Recent Burton Group research shows that a wide range of industries use SaaS solutions to solve a variety of issues....

In this podcast, Lyn Robison, Enterprise Architect for the LDS Church talks about the architectural approach we have developed that enables us to combine our structured data with our unstructured content, while obtaining centralized information from decentralized sources. The approach...

At Catalyst Conference 2008 Burton Group announced the newest member to the Identity and Privacy Strategies coverage area, Ian Glazer. In this podcast, Ian introduces himself as a senior analyst to the Burton Group and highlights some of the research...

Due to the phenomenal growth rate of data, internal direct-attach storage can no longer scale to meet business needs. However, implementing a fiber channel Storage Area Networks (SAN) can be an expensive and time-consuming proposition. With the advent of the...

When identity management fails, it usually fails because the party managing identity doesn't have a close enough relationship with the person whose identity it's managing. The identity and management problem is much more social than technical, and the solution to...

Content authoring technology was supposed to be a tool to simply enable the authoring process. However, it is now apparent that technology is changing how we write and what we write, even though information workers may not always be conscious...

In this podcast, Research Director Peter O’Kelly introduces Burton Group Data Management Strategies (DMS). The podcast includes an overview of the DMS service and analyst team, along with a summary of five data management topics the DMS team believes will...

Today, May 19, 2008, Burton Group launched Burton Group IT1, comprehensive suite of decision support and planning tools designed to help executives and technologists at Global 2000 organizations make smarter IT architecture decisions. Burton Group IT1 is a simple licensing...

Burton Group is pleased to announce the launch of its new Enterprise Architecture (EA) coverage area. As part of the launch, VP and Service Director Chris Howard sat down with Senior Analyst Mike Rollings to discuss our philosophy and approach....

Many enterprises are considering Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n draft 2.0 deployment because it has significant advantages over existing wireless technologies. However, these advantages present the enterprise network manager with important deployment considerations. In this podcast, senior analyst Paul DeBeasi and Edgar...