Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Agiliance, a provider of integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), today announced that SC Magazine has named Agiliance as the 2009 innovator in ITGRC management for the second consecutive year. Read the article here.
Agiliance, an award winning company and recognized front runner in the IT GRC space, is trusted by industry leaders to solve their most pressing GRC-related issues including compliance automation, vendor risk management, privacy assessment, mission assurance, and enterprise risk management. By leveraging the power of Agiliance RiskVision, the leading "out-of-the box" IT GRC solution, businesses are quickly gaining value from their risk and compliance efforts with fewer audit failures, improved leverage of resources, faster decision-making, and better visibility into future risk.
SC Magazine cited both the technology and go-to-market advantages of Agiliance. "The platform is flexible and it fits into different delivery schemes... partners can deploy the Agiliance RiskVision platform as a virtual appliance, SaaS or a managed service. The core innovation here is the business model," said Peter Stephenson, Technology Editor for SC Magazine.
Recognition as a 2009 IT GRC Management innovator demonstrates the pace that Agiliance has set in this area, setting the standard for other market participants to provide end-user organizations with effective solutions that address their needs for security, privacy, compliance, governance, and monitoring their state of compliance readiness.
"IT GRC Management is a must-have technology and we are proud to deliver a solution that has been so well-received by customers, partners and the media," said Ed King, Vice President, Marketing for Agiliance. "Our nomination as an IT GRC Management innovator by one of the security industry's most prominent institutions follows on the heels of accolades and validation we continue to receive in the market and we are pleased at the ongoing positive response."
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About Joe Austin Joe Austin is Vice President, Client Relations, at Ventana Public Relations. He joined Ventana PR in 2006 with more than 14 years experience in high-tech strategic communications. His media relations experience spans both broadcast and print, and he maintains longstanding relationships with editors and reporters at business, IT, channel, and vertical publications. Austin's relationship with the media includes marquee outlets including CNN, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Bloomberg, and the Associated Press for clients ranging from startups to billion-dollar enterprises. Experience includes working with Maxell, McDATA (Acquired by Brocade), Center for Internet Security, Securent (Acquired by Cisco), Intrepidus Group/PhishMe, FireEye, Mimosa Systems, Xiotech, MOLI.com, EMC/Rainfinity, Spinnaker Networks (Acquired by NetApp), ONStor, Nexsan, Asigra, Avamar (Acquired by EMC), BakBone Software, Dot Hill, SANRAD, Open-E and others.
With more than a decade of strategic planning, media tours, press conferences, and media/analyst relations for companies in the data storage, security, server virtualization, IT outsourcing and networking arenas, Austin's domain expertise assists in positioning clients for leadership.
Austin was recently recognized as a “Top Tech Communicator” for the second year in a row by PRSourceCode. The editorial community – represented by more than 300 participating IT journalists – rated each winner based on best overall performance and recognized those who added the most value to their editorial processes in terms of responsiveness, reliability, and overall understanding of editorial needs.
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