Big opportunities for everyone in a transformative electric network: for consumers to make smarter energy decisions, vendors to sell smart hardware and software, utilities to optimize their assets and get green "cred," and of course, for investors to facilitate and benefit from both real and frothy growth.
This context calls for a twofold protection: on one side, the cloud is made up of hardware and software that constitute the business assets of the service provider (property of the cloud); on the other side, there is a definite need to ensure that users retain control over their data (property in the cloud).
Computer platforms provide an integrated architecture of hardware and software standards as a basis for developing complementary assets.
In this role, Young leads Intel's security business across hardware and software platforms, including McAfee and Intel's other security assets, generating revenue exceeding $3 billion.
An inventory of hardware and software could help the underwriting process by putting a value on the assets at risk.
Instead of a Tile, Roambee offers businesses a more technical hardware and software solution for the aforementioned supply chain insights and condition monitoring of in-field assets.
But these companies, they say, lack the extensive software assets and expertise of Oracle, the database and business applications giant, which acquired Sun Microsystems, a maker of both hardware and software, in a $7 billion deal that was completed in 2010.
The assets include computer support and professional services contracts for government clients and access to third-party hardware and software products.
Both privacy and compliance must be ensured through all states of data, including application information or customer assets, while security in this case is more oriented towards how the underlying elements (e.g., infrastructural hardware and software) are protected.
