IT industry’s adoption to open source, cloud computing, out sourcing and software as a service are increasing exponential. These adoption reduces cost, residual risk and increases value,agility and enables organization for known and unknown unknowns.  It is possible, adoption’s value proposition could be  reversed,  if commodity and differentiating technologies and services are not properly categorized.

Differentiating Technologies:

• Security Technologies
  • Identity Management
    • User provisioning & de-provisioning
    • Access management
    • Role Management – Role mining, engineering
    • Federation – Service & Identity
  • Data loss prevention
  • Network security – intrusion prevention, firewall, load balancer, proxy server,
  • Managed File Transfer
• Integration Technologies
  • XML Appliance
  • SOA/Cloud security appliance
• Internal tools for compliance
  • Service Desk
  • incident & problem management
  • Release Mangement  – Source code control management
  • ITIL
• Collaboration Platform
  • Web 2.0  – blog, wiki, corporate twitter – for both internal and external users
  • Email – integration with iPhone, blackberry
• Next generation platform
  • Application running in iPad, iPhone,
  • Virtual desktop

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