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1. Trust Marks: What's Behind the Label Counts

   Trust marks help companies prove to consumers that their Web practices and e-commerce sites are safe, but no two trust marks are alike. We detail the four main types of marks to help consumers and SMBs navigate their true meanings and protection levels.

   Feb. 8, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

2. Clouds in 2010: Vendor Optimism Meets Enterprise Realities

   Over a quarter of Yankee Group survey respondents say they expect at least a third of their infrastructure to move to cloud computing in the next year, but company-wide adoption remains low. This executive-level research report features interviews with cloud computing pioneers and reveals their unique perspectives and metrics for success in 2010.

   Jan. 28, 2010 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Zeus Kerravala, Jennifer Pigg, Camille Mendler, Sheryl Kingstone, Emily Green  

3. Financial CIOs Get Real About Virtual IT

   Financial companies tend to be in the vanguard of enterprise technology adoption, and virtualization is no different. ISVs should learn from the experiences of these early users and realize that if they don't have a strong virtualization story to tell, they probably won't have a place in the enterprise--today or tomorrow.

   Jan. 11, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Agatha Poon  

4. Yankee Group VDI Webinar Q&A: Part II

   Our recent webinar on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) highlighted the fact that enterprises have many questions about the economics of VDI, particularly around cost savings, ROI justification, licensing models and investments in back-end infrastructure. Yankee Group provides the answers.

   Dec. 14, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

5. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-12

   The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,307 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

   Dec. 14, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

6. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-10

   The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,925 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

   Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

7. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-11

   The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,116 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

   Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

8. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-8

   The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,546 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

   Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

9. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-9

   The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,734 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

   Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

10. Yankee Group VDI Webinar Q&A: Part I

    Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a potentially game-changing technology for enterprise IT. But as with any emerging technology, IT executives have many questions about its basic concepts, the technology's viability and cost, and the key players in the market. Yankee Group provides the answers.

    Nov. 17, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

11. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Mid-Year Analysis, Wave 1-6

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure, Transforming Applications and Empowered Employee Survey is an online survey of 1,100 US IT decision-makers (including line-of-business managers) and 1,400 US employees of large enterprises in the U.S.

    Nov. 16, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

12. Enterprises on the Verge of Data Center, WLAN and Security Transformation

    At a mid-year review of Yankee Group's Anywhere Large Enterprise: 2009 U.S. Survey Suite, it's evident that today's enterprises are not only facing major data center upgrades, but they're also moving to wireless and opening up their networks to external parties in unprecedented numbers. Enterprise IT users and vendors need to devise clear blueprints to make these transitions as smooth as possible.

    Nov. 16, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

13. The Virtual Desktop Revolution

    Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) represents the future of enterprise desktop computing, promising greater flexibility, scalability, cost savings and security benefits. But it also represents radical, and possibly painful, changes in market dynamics for providers of endpoint hardware, software and services. In this webinar, Yankee Group analysts Phil Hochmuth and Zeus Kerravala dissect the future of VDI and what the technology has to offer enterprises today.

    Nov. 3, 2009 | Live Webinar | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala  

14. No Context-Aware, No Anywhere

    Anywhere Enterprise network infrastructure must become more application- and identity-aware in order to adapt to trends in enterprise computerization, employee mobility, interorganizational resource sharing and IT virtualization. While Cisco, HP, 3Com and Juniper all offer some pieces, none as yet have completed the context-aware network puzzle.

    Nov. 3, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

15. Webinar: The Virtual Desktop Revolution

    In this webinar, analysts Phil Hochmuth and Zeus Kerravala discuss desktop virtualization in the enterprise.

    October 27, 2009 | Blog | by Phil Hochmuth

16. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-7

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,355 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Oct. 13, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

17. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-6

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,182 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Sep. 2, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

18. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-5

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,007 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Sep. 2, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

19. Pinning Down Cloud

    Yankee Group defines cloud computing today as scalable, virtualized information services provided on demand over the Internet with multitenant capability, service-level agreements (SLAs) and usage-based pricing. The objective of cloud computing is to save the enterprise cost and complexity and improve service to the end-user or client.

    Aug. 24, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Eugene Signorini, Sheryl Kingstone, Agatha Poon  

20. Data Loss Prevention Must Go Beyond Just Plugging Leaks

    Data loss prevention products are gaining a greater presence in enterprises as more organizations deploy the technology and early adopter deployments move into next phases. However, enterprises still struggle with the complex data classification tasks and policy creation that DLP requires, as well as integrating it with other network and endpoint security systems.

    Aug. 19, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

21. Netbooks Mean Business

    Netbooks will be widely accepted as a legitimate device platform in the enterprise within the next 18 months. SaaS and desktop virtualization will drive growth. Netbook vendors must partner with Citrix and VMware to fuel the flames of adoption.

    Aug. 18, 2009 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth  

22. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-4

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Jul. 28, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

23. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-3

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Jul. 28, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

24. Make Wireless the Burger of Enterprise LAN Access, Not the Fries

    Enterprise employees are shifting to WLANs as the primary network access technology when working in the office, but vendors of wired and wireless infrastructure gear still regard 802.11 as a side order to wired Ethernet when it comes to building networks. Enterprises must change this thinking and force vendors to do the same.

    Jul. 23, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

25. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1-2

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?

    Jun. 15, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

26. Providers Must Clear Security Uncertainty in the Cloud

    'Cloud security' is an amorphous term that hampers growth and adoption of cloud services. The first step toward adoption is identifying the types of cloud services that need securing--SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Only then can the various security and compliance challenges facing each model be examined and solved.

    May. 29, 2009 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth  

27. Cloud Security Is a Cloudy Concept at RSA 2009

    At the 2009 RSA Conference, the industry's premier cyber security event held in San Francisco in April, "cloud security" was the topic of the week. Too bad no one knows what this really means. In this report, Yankee Group breaks down the issue into three easy-to-understand concepts, two of which are most relevant to enterprise IT security buyers: security-as-a-service and cloud-enabled intelligence.

    May. 19, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

28. Plumbers and Cops Unite: Anywhere IT Transforms Network/Security Operations

    Enterprises must make their network and security technology and management structures into one seamless, streamlined operation to transition to Anywhere IT. Vendors of network and security products should be aware of how connected their customers are in terms of security/network integration, and help facilitate this convergence of roles with products that closely couple security/network operations functionality.

    May. 11, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

29. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1

    The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier.

    Apr. 29, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Sheryl Kingstone  

30. Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey, Wave 1

    The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 300 SMBs in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier?

    Apr. 29, 2009 | Survey | by Steve Hilton | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Joshua Holbrook, Sheryl Kingstone, Agatha Poon  

31. Outsourcing Security Can Boot SMBs Out of Anywhere IT "Safe Mode"

    SMBs can shed the burden of network security management and get back to using IT as a growth catalyst by outsourcing security management to service providers.

    Apr. 23, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

32. Desktop Virtualization Tames Endpoints Gone Wild

    Enterprises beating their heads against the problem of endpoint security should explore desktop virtualization to lessen the frequency of malware, network breach and data loss headaches.

    Mar. 4, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

33. The Anywhere Network Will Power a Virtual Desktop Revolution in Enterprises

    Heavy endpoint computing is dead. The future of enterprise desktop computing and applications will be virtual, accessible from anywhere, on any device, via virtualized desktop infrastructure, application streaming, and powered by the Anywhere Network and corporate cloud computing.

    Feb. 26, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

34. Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey

    The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey provides an in-depth view of SMBs' current and planned use of infrastructure products and technologies, as well as the associated purchasing and operating issues.

    Dec. 31, 2008 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

35. Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey

    The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey provides an in-depth view of SMBs' current and planned use of infrastructure products and technologies, as well as the associated purchasing and operating issues.

    Dec. 31, 2008 | Survey Executive Summary | by Phil Hochmuth 

36. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey

    The network is a critical business and communications tool Enterprises also want more mobility and performance out of the LAN and WAN infrastructure Server virtualization: widely, but not deeply, deployed Desktop virtualization: a potential game-changer, but questions remain

    Dec. 30, 2008 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth 

37. Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey

    The network is a critical business and communications tool Enterprises also want more mobility and performance out of the LAN and WAN infrastructure Server virtualization: widely, but not deeply, deployed Desktop virtualization: a potential game-changer, but questions remain

    Dec. 30, 2008 | Survey Executive Summary | by Phil Hochmuth 

38. Symantec's Vision Offers Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary, Insights

    Symantec's 2008 worldwide industry analyst conference highlighted how the company is aligning its disjointed pieces into a cohesive solutions company with impressive breadth. But the security vendor is still reacting too slowly to shifts in anti-malware and application whitelisting technologies, as well as the macro trend of enterprise IT consumerization.

    Nov. 3, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Andrew Jaquith  

39. Anywhere Data Is Powerful; Data Everywhere Is Dangerous

    Data loss prevention products aspire to provide comprehensive enterprise data protection. After a flurry of acquisitions, products and suites from major security vendors are starting to mature, with some hitting the mark better than others.

    Aug. 13, 2008 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

40. The Empire Strikes Back at VMware

    VMware's replacement of CEO Diane Greene with Paul Maritz is a fight for the Anywhere virtualization leadership--and a strategic move to avoid being "Netscaped" by Microsoft.

    Jul. 9, 2008 | Note | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Gary Chen  

41. Who's Afraid of VoIP Vulnerabilities?

    Security architecture's advanced deployment models for IP telephony and unified communications will change the security architecture of converged enterprise networks.

    Jun. 19, 2008 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

42. At RSA Conference 2008, DLP and Virtualization Steal the Spotlight from NAC

    Data loss prevention and security virtualization were the buzz generators at RSA Conference 2008. Meanwhile, network access control--a show darling the last 2 years--became the technology whose name no one dared speak.

    May. 30, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Gary Chen, Andrew Jaquith  

43. With Lockdown Networks Down and Out, Time for a NAC Market Shakeout?

    The NAC startup Lockdown Networks shut its doors on March 18, a signal that the window of opportunity is closing for standalone NAC appliance companies to thrive as large infrastructure vendors ready their next move.

    Apr. 29, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth 

44. Cisco VPN, Wi-Fi Security Give iPhone 2.0 Keys to the Anywhere Enterprise

    Cisco's VPN support and bolstered WLAN security for Apple's iPhone open the iPhone up to new possibilities on corporate enterprise networks.

    Apr. 8, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth 

45. Security Is the Key to Anywhere Access

    Yankee Group's Anywhere Access Survey, described in this Report, details connectivity trends among mobile/remote employees and partners. Anywhere access and security are two sides of the same coin: There can be no access without security.

    Mar. 27, 2008 | Report | by Andrew Jaquith | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth  

46. NBA's Next Act: Enterprise Regulatory Compliance Tool

    Network behavior analysis technology is evolving beyond its traditional role as a network or security operations tool into the more complex, and strategic, role of regulatory compliance.

    Mar. 19, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth 

47. Vendors Must Bundle Hosted UTMs with Other Services to Create Value for SMBs

    Service providers offering hosted UTM services to SMBs must package these security services with more advanced offerings, such as SaaS, or hosted office infrastructure.

    Feb. 8, 2008 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Gary Chen  

48. Cisco TrustSec Promises True Role-Based Access Control

    Cisco's TrustSec is its most ambitious effort yet to tie together its various infrastructure security features into a single system for pre- and post-admission network security and access control.

    Jan. 15, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth 

49. WLAN Vendors Must Get WIPS Smart

    Yankee Group reports on the state of the WLAN security market, from the standpoint of WLAN equipment vendors, WLAN switch makers and standalone WLAN security vendors. Where are the synergies, conflicts and overlaps in the market?

    Jan. 8, 2008 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth 

50. The Case(s) for Network Access Control

    Enterprises and other organizations who have successfully deployed NAC architectures disucss their experiences, the benefits of the technology, and the challenges of implementing and managing NAC.

    Dec. 18, 2007 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth