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Three out of five companies are adopting cloud computing technologies, including private clouds and lower-risk technologies, says a new report. In an e-mail interview with eWEEK, outsourcing expert TPI explains the results of its study.
Despite resignation that slow economic growth in the U.S. will impact their businesses, small business owners remain generally optimistic about their own companies, according to U.S. Bank's annual survey of small business owners.
A comScore report finds local mobile search is growing at a rapid pace, and attracting a younger, wealthier audience: Over half have a household income in excess of $75,000 and 58 percent are 34 or younger, according to the report.
For the second time in as many months, McAfee announces plans to push into the mobile security market via acquisition, this time targeting mobile security vendor TenCube for its remote location, wipe and locking technology.
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, former NSA Director Michael Hayden examines the concept of cyber-war and the role attendees need to play.
Nintendo can't escape the general woes of the video game industry as the company posts its first net loss in two years, hampered by a strong Japanese yen and declining sales of its popular DS handheld console.
Hewlett-Packard executives have indicated that the company will manufacture a line of Windows 7 tablets for the enterprise. But will Microsoft need to alter Windows 7 to make that happen? Tablets may require different treatment than desktops and notebooks.
A 2010 study examines the maturity of IT adoption and highlights how heavily invested ERP is in the IT ecosystem. Similarly, efforts to condense and compact application systems to save money are happening with higher frequency.
Cost-conscious businesses with a small IT department are more likely to migrate to cloud computing than their larger contemporaries, while SMBs in emerging markets like Latin America lead the pack overall, according to a Spiceworks survey.
Technology job board Dice is making it easier to put your professional social-networking profiles directly before companies and hiring managers, and on terms you control, with the Dice Talent Network.
When data is hosted on your property, there is a level of protection from law enforcement agencies and civil suits. By moving data to a cloud you may be decreasing your protection from search by law enforcement and civil plaintiffs. In several recent cases, law enforcement agencies have gone after the digital assets of a company suspected of criminal activities. And in the process, they seized assets of uninvolved companies simply because their applications or data shared the same server or equipment rack.
The benefits of Web 2.0 applications are being embraced by workers for their information sharing and collaborative capabilities. Unfortunately, the security issues associated with this class of applications is becoming an ever-growing concern. In many cases, the lack of company oversight and inability to enforce of corporate policies can expose a company to risk.
Most organizations have formal business processes for handling everything from approving vacation days to authorizing purchasing agreements. In many cases, these processes are automated where electronic documents are routed to the correct person based on pre-set policies. This video will discuss how such common processes can be refined and optimized by introducing an element of presence awareness to ensure the right person is available as critical documents and multi-step tasks flow through an organization.
A new dashboard to let non-IT users gain access to server and application configuration data to measure regulatory compliance only helps SCM 5.8 keep pace with the competition. Although SCM 5.8 does a decent job of reporting IT asset configuration data, IT managers should anticipate a moderate amount of tinkering to get really useful information on a consistent basis.
Review: After some study and setup, Lumension Risk Manager can be a powerful tool for IT administrators needing to monitor an organization's risk and regulatory compliance status.
Tech Analysis: Change management can prevent disasters and help a company clean up its act organizationally, but it's important to have a clear idea of what you're doing and why.
Optimize overall performance by melding antivirus, antispyware, client firewall and malicious website filtering together into one
powerful engine.
This combination of technologies gives you high-performance software that doesn't slow down users' PCs, is low on
system resources, and makes it easy for you to protect your network.
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