Kevin Murray

While the concept of consolidation is certainly not new to IT organizations, its application is gradually expanding. This convergence of endpoint security and endpoint management has grown to include not just servers and other hardware, but also IT operations and tools. Evidence of this trend can be heard in hallways and lunch rooms as security and administrative teams compare notes. They are discovering common functions, challenges, and strategic goals and have begun to share ideas for addressing them more efficiently. Other indicators surface in policies designed to ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance through sound information protection and management practices. It can be measured as IT organizations respond to management's directives to control costs... (more)