Archive for September, 2012
Privacy and Data Security In The Cloud (Statistics)
Microsoft recently commissioned the Ponemon Institute to study the use of Cloud computing by American, German and Scandinavian IT professionals, and the data privacy and security issues associated with Cloud computing. The Ponemon Institute surveyed 1,771 individuals in positions within IT, compliance, data security, risk management, and privacy in the United States, Germany, and the [...]
Full StoryMerced College Avoids Costly Disk-Backup Investment With Zetta.net 3-IN-1 Online Server Backup Solution
College Uses Zetta.net Integrated Backup, Disaster Recovery and Archiving to Protect Critical Server Data and Enable Data Access in Minutes vs. Days SUNNYVALE, Calif.– August 29, 2012 —Zetta.net, a provider of 3-in-1 online server backup solutions, today announced that Merced College has selected Zetta.net for critical server backup and disaster recovery. The community college has [...]
Full StoryDo You Gamble On Your Web Security?
Could you imagine a world without the Internet? It might be a big leap, but use your imagination to erase it from history for a moment. How would that change the way you do business? Would your organization even be around if the Internet didn’t exist? Despite the considerable changes that the Internet has brought [...]
Full StoryBeyond gimmickry: How multi touch is becoming the ‘norm’ for non-consumer business technology
Applications such as tablets and smartphones have popularized the use of the touch screen to such an extent that it has become the default, expected interface for many other consumer devices. What’s more, the ease-of-use and ubiquity of touch screen designs in consumer products is having a knock-on effect when it comes to expectations for [...]
Full StoryTips while negotiating SLAs with Cloud Computing Providers
As the IT needs of a company expand in order to stay competitive, so too does it seem the number of companies offering cloud computing services. A quick search online for “hosted Microsoft Exchange” will yield well over 7 million results! With the exponential growth of “service providers,” it seems even more difficult to sift [...]
Full StoryRising Popularity of Magento
In 2007, a small web development firm called Varien released the first version of its open source ecommerce platform, Magento. Magento is built on the Zend framework and is built from the ground up with strong support and development ties from within the open source community itself. Since that time Varien, who started as a [...]
Full StoryStanford University Experiment: Does “Opting Out” Really Opt You Out Of Online Tracking?
It should be of no surprise to our readers that massive amounts of personal, technical, social and behavioral data are being secretly tracked about us by embedded scripts in the background of the web sites we visit. This is usually done by embedding cookies into your browser which can be tracked as you move around [...]
Full StoryHow to Drive Sales Through Collaboration Software
Haven’t you ever answered any of those questions the sales rep asks you in a local department store, grocery store, pharmacy, online or even in the airport? You know the ones asking about a certain product, the way a display looks, or whether you would ever consider using a certain service? What do you think [...]
Full StoryUse Statistics To Convince Your Employer To Let You Work From Home
The consumerization of IT services has led to a number of interesting changes in the way we use and interact with technology. One of the most striking impacts of this new paradigm has to do with the end of offices. Employees are no longer tethered to a physical desk since enterprise applications, productivity applications, and [...]
Full StoryNew CAMP Specification Promises To Standardize the PaaS Space
As I’ve written about in the past, the loss of control that comes with a cloud migration has been a major sticking point when it comes to leveraging cloud computing for more serious business applications. Although the cloud offers some very attractive efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities, it also presents a number of perceived strategic risks: [...]
Full StoryPhilippines Overtakes India in BPO Battle, Aspires IT and Software Development Domination
It could come to a point where Hollywood will have to change the onscreen stereotype of a call-center agent, from a young kid from Mumbai to a young kid from Manila. That’s because, as of 2012, the Philippines, with over $5 billion in revenues, has already surpassed India as the number one business processing outsourcing [...]
Full StoryiOS Vulnerability – No More Immunity!
According to a McAfee report, malware is multiplying at a faster pace: there were 1.5 million new malware threats in this quarter alone. The most common attacks are ransomware, thumb drive corrupters and botnets. While Windows PCs remain the hardest hit, there has been an increase in attacks on Apple devices. Malware attacks that were [...]
Full StoryLinux Web Hosting versus Windows Web Hosting
The market for web hosting has changed dramatically in the past few years. Ten to fifteen years ago the best way to ensure a stable web application deployment was to build your own server and do all of your own administration and coding. By the twenty first century, web hosting providers were much more numerous, [...]
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