Sandra Palumbo
Research Fellow
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Research Categories
Cloud Computing, Enterprise Mobility, Network Software Systems
Sandra Palumbo, research fellow, reports into Yankee Group's Research Council. Her research focuses on cloud computing, enterprise mobility and service provider strategies, with particular emphasis on software as a service (SaaS), mobile applications, Web portals, managed services, professional services and wholesale.
Prior to joining Yankee Group, Palumbo served as associate director at Capgemini, where she led the marketing strategy for the North American IT outsourcing business and the Capgemini Consulting subsidiary. Before that, she was director of global enterprise research at Yankee Group, with a focus on the SMB, mid-market and enterprise space addressing supply- and demand-side drivers, inhibitors and the strategic direction and growth of the managed services space. She also worked as a sales associate in the business development and strategic selling organizations at AT&T Solutions, the professional services arm of AT&T Corporation. During her time there, Palumbo worked in the networking operations and management organization, supporting global client support centers and transition teams as a process manager and developer for network activities associated with the monitoring, management and performance of a corporate network.
Palumbo holds a B.A. degree in computer science with a concentration in engineering from Lafayette College.
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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may not be mainstream, but it is starting to find a home in early adopter enterprises. Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Cloud Computing FastView Survey illustrates that while enterprises with cloud experience are planning on expanding IaaS adoption, certain barriers still need to be addressed.
Aug. 18, 2010 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo
Discovering the Strategic Mobile Knowledge Worker
Today's workforce is diverse and evolving. The way we work is rapidly changing thanks to consumer technology, mobile solutions and ubiquitous connectivity.
May. 29, 2008 | Live Webinar | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini
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HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the global systems integrator EDS will enable the new HP to compete more aggressively with archrival IBM and stimulate consolidation in the global IT services market.
May. 14, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo, Mindy Blodgett
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All mobile workers are not the same. To achieve real strategic enterprise mobility, corporations must segment their mobile workforce and address the specific needs and tendencies of the various mobile worker types.
May. 12, 2008 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Jonathan Edwards, Eugene Signorini
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The consumerization of the enterprise is real and the mobility industry and enterprises alike need to stop viewing consumers and mobile workers as two totally different beasts.
Apr. 8, 2008 | Note | by Sandra Palumbo
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The use of managed solutions can help enterprises take the final steps to holistic mobility and achieve dramatic savings.
Jan. 25, 2008 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo
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Determining the value that can be driven by network-based professional services in increasing the uptake of managed services is a current business planning issue for many service providers.
Jan. 9, 2008 | Report | by Caroline Ashley | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo
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4 questions to help you pick the right VPN to support your mobile enterprise.
Jan. 7, 2008 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Nathan Dyer
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Large: 2007 Asia-Pacific IP Communications Services Survey provides an in-depth view of how large enterprises in China, Hong Kong, India and South Korea deploy various IP communications solutions.
Dec. 28, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo
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This Yankee Group Report provides a look at the use and perception of managed services among North American businesses.
Aug. 23, 2007 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo
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This online survey is comprised of 500 US respondents at companies with 2-499 employees. Topics include IT and network- or communications-based service delivery strategies; software as a service versus premises-based; drivers/barriers of adoption.
Jul. 17, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Gary Chen | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo, Steve Hilton, Joshua Holbrook
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This online survey is comprised of 200 UK respondents at companies with 2-249 employees. Topics include IT and network- or communications-based service delivery strategies; software as a service versus premises-based; drivers/barriers of adoption.
Jun. 27, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Caroline Ashley | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo, Joshua Holbrook
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This online survey is comprised of 302 US respondents at companies with 500+ employees. Topics include IT and network- or communications-based service delivery strategies; software as a service versus premises-based; drivers/barriers of adoption.
Jun. 22, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Mindy Blodgett
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Monitoring the enterprise and wholesale activities of core players in the US fixed-line market, updated to the fourth quarter of 2006.
Apr. 13, 2007 | Data Module | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Steve Hilton, Joshua Holbrook
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Consumer applications and tools are invading enterprises, so enterprises need to be prepared to allow these empowering and enabling tools into the workforce while still protecting the corporation.
Mar. 29, 2007 | Note | by Sandra Palumbo
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Mobile malware: Although it may not be real today, its day will come in the future. Will you be prepared?
Feb. 6, 2007 | Note | by Jonathan Singer | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo
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This online survey is comprised of 509 (300 US, 209 Benelux, UK, France, Germany, Nordic countries) respondents at companies with 500+ employees. Topics include current/planned compliance processes and initiatives; security tools; compliance workloads.
Jan. 15, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Andrew Jaquith | CO-AUTHORS: Chris Liebert, Sandra Palumbo, Lauren Cotes, Jonathan Singer
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With more than 40% of today's workforce considered mobile, enterprises need to take special security measures to protect an untethered workforce.
Dec. 19, 2006 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo
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An analysis of the impact of recent M&A activity in the MSSP space.
Dec. 5, 2006 | Note | by Sandra Palumbo
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This Yankee Group Report examines the post-implementation managed service provider/enterprise relationship, providing key lessons to maximize that relationship.
Oct. 25, 2006 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo
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As networking and security converge within the enterprise, network service providers continue to add more complex and valuable security offerings to their portfolios.
Jul. 5, 2006 | Note | by Sandra Palumbo
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Enterprises must incorporate mobile security and device management solutions into their corporate security policies. Otherwise, their organizations are vulnerable to potential security breaches and compliance issues.
May. 19, 2006 | Note | by Sandra Palumbo
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Managed security solutions enable many businesses to free up resources and money that can be focused on strategic initiatives and extending an added level of security to their IT team.
Mar. 31, 2006 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo