Archive for January, 2012
How Will Internet Censorship Affect Your Business?
Now that there’s a heated battle over the future of free expression on the Internet, we decided to get in touch with the business community in order to get their input on how SOPA, PIPA, and Internet censorship will affect businesses. My name’s Michelle Panzironi, I’m the COO and Co-Founder of hypetree.com. hypetree (no capitalh) [...]
Full Story9 Ways Your Movements Are Being Followed Using Location Tracking
One of the scariest aspects of online privacy has to do with automated location tracking. It’s one thing to have companies tracking information which you are freely giving out, but it’s quite another to be tracked based on data which is being automatically generated by your movements… without your knowledge. IP Address Tracking When most [...]
Full StoryEasy Technology Approaches to Talent Management
With economic hard times, businesses large and small have had to re-invent business procedures down to the most basic levels, looking for savings and leaner operations. Those that have been able to contract and retrench their functions have survived and outlasted their competition through what has been a dry season since 2008. Even though companies [...]
Full StoryThe Difference Between Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing
On this blog, we’ve spent a lot of energy discussing the importance of testing data backup plans and disaster recovery processes using various scenarios. Likewise, it’s important to also test your network security in order to ensure that your company will remain safe from hackers and other malicious individuals that may want to destroy or [...]
Full StoryThat Email You Sent Could Expose Your Company To Hackers
To most companies, Email Servers are the Achilles Heel of IT security. Email servers are the largest central repository of highly-sensitive critical business data which is directly accessible to any anonymous user in the outside world. Part of the difficulty in maintaining proper email server security is that you need to let in the same [...]
Full Story10 Emerging Future Trends in Cloud Computing
It is no secret that 2011 was a big year for cloud computing. While it is still thrown around as a buzz word and there is much hype still swirling around, the cloud is here to stay. So, now that we know that it’s the real deal, what can we expect from the future of [...]
Full StoryIs Your Web Site a Security Risk?
Your web site is one of the first places that potential fraudsters and hackers look for information on how to harm your company. You may not realize it, but your online presence can be one of the greatest tools for exploiting the information security of your organization. Here are just a few of the ways [...]
Full StoryHow Big Data Spawned The Birth Of Next-Generation Non-Relational Databases
10 years ago, Google had a problem. They were constantly spidering, indexing and caching every page on an Internet which was growing at an exponential rate. In addition to this, they were expected to perform sophisticated calculations, sorts and searches on this massive and ever-growing body of data. Traditional relational data bases are designed to [...]
Full Story2012 Predictions: Streamlining of IT Ops with Social Interaction Platforms
So just where is IT going? This is something many of us are asking ourselves. It seems these days that technological advances are popping up all the time with a faster pace of change. What road does this put IT practices down? While the social technologies of today are used by most IT professionals in [...]
Full StoryGoogle Goggles Gives Us A Glimpse Into The Future Of Data Analysis
Until now, most of the privacy debates regarding data aggregators have concerned text-base data which is being collected about you. This would include things such as addresses, phone numbers, work history, search histories, etc… But at least other analog data was safe. Nobody would ever have a chance of finding that embarrassing picture you took [...]
Full StoryWhat Email Security Features Come With Hosted Exchange?
It should go without saying that Microsoft Exchange is the undisputed king of email and electronic communications. Nothing else comes close to offering the same power for enterprises when it comes to large-scale communication and productivity. But what features can a Hosted Exchange solution offer when it comes to the safety and security of corporate [...]
Full StoryFactors That Complicate IT Management
Few people realize how hard IT admins actually work. Part of this has to do with the fact that their job is to be invisible. When the IT team is doing their job properly, you shouldn’t ever notice that they’re around. But when they mess up or get overloaded, all hell breaks loose. Below, I’ve [...]
Full StoryShould You Buy A Tablet or A Laptop?
So it’s pretty clear that Tablets are here to stay. Since the highly-mocked introduction of the iPad just a few years ago, their popularity has simply exploded. And now, many people are considering moving to tablets as their primary machines get older. So, as someone who’s had a fair amount of exposure with both, I [...]
Full StoryBig Data, And The Threat Of Automated Slander
Like it or not, Dig Bata is coming. As storage and processing power continue to become exponentially cheaper, a whole new industry is growing out of the opportunity to track, monitor, analyze and share every detail about your life. These are certainly scary times which rightfully bring out the inner-Luddite in all of us. But [...]
Full StoryWhy Do Power Companies Offer Energy-Saving Incentives For Green Computing?
It’s amazing to think of how accurate the Moore’s Law predictions actually were, and to see how long these predictions have kept firm. Even today, chips are getting exponentially more dense, exponentially cheaper and exponentially more powerful. 20 years ago, supercomputers were giant machines that took up huge rooms. But today’s datacenters can pack the [...]
Full StoryTop 10 SaaS Software Providers In Every Category For January 2012
Top 10 SaaS Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Commence CRM SalesForce Appshore eGain Salesboom CLP Suite Microsoft Dynamics NetSuite Aplicor Infusion Software Top 10 Hosted Exchange Providers 123Together.com Exchange My Mail Kerio Mail Hosting Apps4Rent FuseMail Hostirian 9th Sphere SherWeb NetNation Utopia Systems Top 10 SaaS Invoicing Software Services Office Link BillingTracker LessAccounting BlinkSale WinkBill Zoho [...]
Full Story5 Essential Cloud Based Tools for Better Document Management
The days of shuffling paper in office environments is coming to a close. Many companies are opting for a more efficient, all digital document management system. There are numerous reasons why a computerized document management process is highly preferred for many office environments. Some companies are looking to reduce the amount of paper utilized while [...]
Full Story
Recent Comments