Category: Comments & opinions

On an average day, employees routinely copy sensitive production data into non-production environments. Those copies are often shared with other employees creating copies of copies. As the number of copies increase so does the security risk. For example copies are created for development and testing so that administrators can test upgrades, patches and fixes. Copies are created for analytics. Copies are created for numerous reasons to keep an organization running. By copying sensitive data, employees unwarily breach information. At the same time, cyber criminals are well aware that copies of…

Read More

Data decays. That nice accurate database at the root of your CRM system will inevitably become corrupt and inaccurate over time. Incorrect entries are made, customers drop off, people change jobs or leave, and companies merge or go out of business. Slowly but surely your database becomes dirty, costing your people time and effort and your company lost opportunities. To remain useful, your data file needs to be cleaned regularly to eliminate errors, duplication and outdated information. Ideally you do this as part of day to day operations. Less, ideally,…

Read More

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection helps companies uncover, prioritize and remediate advanced threats across their control points – fast Mountain View, Calif. – October – Symantec Corp. , the global leader in cyber security, today introduced Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the first solution that can detect and remediate advanced threats across control points, from a single console with just a click, all with no new endpoint agents to deploy. Advanced threats, such as ransomware, remote access trojans, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero day attacks, are on the rise and security professionals can…

Read More

Though virtualization has become the new normal for businesses of all sizes, physical server infrastructures are still quite widespread. Do you think that the companies using traditional, physical server networks are wasting money? This post will show you why this is exactly the case! But before reading I suggest to watch this educative video. Let’s start with what we used to have when physical servers were the normal platform of choice. The architecture of a physical server is quite plain. Each server has its own hardware: Memory, network, processing and…

Read More

Collaboration has been around since the dawn of man, but recent developments have made it easier and more effective than ever People are born collaborators – in fact, we’ve evolved to collaborate. Our communication skills and ability to work together have taken us from the savannahs of Africa to the outer solar system. Collaboration has given us virtually everything, from our ability to avoid famine using agriculture to amazing works of art. Collaboration today, though, is going into overdrive thanks to the development of more and more tools that help…

Read More

In his first interview as the video empire’s engineering chief, Matthew Mengerink discusses virtual reality, making money and stepping into the role during trying times for YouTube’s engineers. Soon after Matthew Mengerink became YouTube’s engineering chief a few weeks back, he got a taste of the virtual reality footage Google has been working on but hasn’t released to the public yet. “I saw stuff that just melted my brain,” Mengerink said Tuesday in his first interview since joining the Google-owned video site. Mengerink won’t go into detail about what he…

Read More

For small businesses, effectively managing technology comes with a question: Is it better to outsource or stay in-house? Most small and midsize companies can’t afford to employ teams of full-time IT staffers. This creates a desire for outsourced solutions. However, opting for a third party means giving up a measure of control. What is best for your business? In this post, we offer a quick rundown of the top five tasks any small business should consider outsourcing: The Cloud According to MarketWatch, while 64 percent of business owners are aware…

Read More

The promises of adding social media are appealing to many companies that desire an automated approach to monitoring their customers’ posts, blogs, and tweets about the businesses. Adding social listening to any customer relationship management (CRM) solution seems to be a natural progression of the direction CRM software was heading, but many decried the solution as intrusive and a potential violation of their customers’ privacy rights. Nevertheless, the technology has advanced and matured to the point where many companies are once again considering it to help them not only gain…

Read More

Cisco, Intel, IBM and HP are bridging virtualisation and the software-defined data centre “Composable infrastructure” is a term you’re about to start hearing a lot more, and the good news is that while it is marketing jargon behind the shiny is pleasing advances in server design that will advance server virtualisation and private clouds. The new term has its roots in server virtualisation, which is of course an eminently sensible idea that anyone sensible uses whenever possible. Intel and AMD both gave server virtualisation a mighty shunt forward with their…

Read More

EMC and VMware will funnel hybrid cloud services into their co-owned Virtustream brand EMC and VMware have announced plans to unify their cloud businesses under the single banner of the Virtustream brand. The move comes just a week after the announcement that Dell is to buy EMC for $67 billion, when it was also stated that VMware would remain a separate, publicly traded company. Virtustream – which EMC itself acquired for $1.2 billion in May – will incorporate Virtustream’s existing cloud offerings, EMC Information Infrastructure and VMWare services such as vCloud Air…

Read More