The top 3 tech trends shaping 2011

Three overarching, interrelated trends - cloud consumption, virtualization and mobility - present themselves as key industry themes for 2011. All have been increasing in importance over several years, and this year, all will reach a tipping point for businesses and information security providers alike.

By Patrick Sweeney

4 Feb 2011

To prepare your organisation for the cumulative impact of these trends, you will need to consider new and better solutions for next-generation firewalls, application control and visualization, bandwidth management, secure remote access, clean VPN and wireless, and data leakage prevention.

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