Don’t Be Too Quick to Accept That Friend Request!

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It’s exciting to see a Friend Request at the top of your Facebook page. You’re likely to accept Friend Requests without thinking twice, especially if it’s a friend or a name you recognize. You may even be thinking that there’s no real harm in accepting all Friend Requests that come your way. Having more friends means you’re more popular…right? What you may not know is that with name, birth date, education, and work history available online, it’s relatively easy for anyone to create a duplicate of any existing user. Watch…

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Five Myths About Malware You Need to Know

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Malware is everywhere. You can get infected by opening up a rigged attachment in your email, or by visiting a booby-trapped website that automatically downloads malware on to your computer. Once infected, your computer can turn into a zombie, being remotely controlled by criminals to attack other computers. Criminals may steal your personal data or use your computer for nefarious activity. While you need to take precautions to prevent getting infected in the first place, such as running an up-to-date security software, it’s also important to know how malware works and…

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The four levels of digital adaptation

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Improving growth in disruptive times What does the digital economy mean to traditional companies? Digital economy for traditional enterprises mean the expansion or redesign of their existing business model and the introduction of new values, customer segments, products, services and channels to increase profit. These internal changes shall be based on the combination of a classic approach and internet capabilities. Threat and opportunity That is why the digital economy is at the same time an opportunity and a threat for traditional enterprises. The threat comes from not reacting and time and protecting the existing…

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New IDC Tech Marketing Barometer Study Finds Marketers Are Optimistic About Budget Growth – Led by 3rd Platform Companies

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In a recent survey of senior marketers at technology companies, International Data Corporation’s (IDC) CMO Advisory Service found that two-thirds are expecting budget increases for 2014. Additionally, IDC forecasts that marketing budgets within the technology industry will increase 1.5-2.5% overall in 2014. Third Platform companies – those with revenue primarily from cloud, social, mobile, and Big Data and analytics technologies – will see marketing budget increases that are six times greater than the rest of the industry, increasing their marketing spending between 8 and 12%. Despite the projected gains, the…

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Nadella to take center stage on Microsoft earnings call

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All eyes and ears will be on Satya Nadella, now in his third month as CEO, on his first appearance on the Microsoft earnings call. It’s not exactly a shocker that Satya Nadella will anchor Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday, but folks will be listening carefully to what he has to say — expecting him to hold fast to his broad strategy of device independence, as long as those devices hook into Microsoft’s Azure cloud. His predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was not a fixture on these calls. As one insider put it, the former CEO…

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Cyber attacks on European cloud providers rise

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Report finds nearly half of providers subjected to brute force attacks from criminals Attacks against cloud platforms and their providers are on the rise, according to a recently published report. The research, carried out by Alert Logic, shows cloud hosting provider (CHP) environments saw a significant increase in action, with brute force attacks climbing from 30 per cent to 44 per cent of customers, and vulnerability scans increasing from 27 per cent to 44 per cent. It said these kinds of attacks have historically been far more likely to target…

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Cloud-based ERP customers stuck in the slow lane

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ERP is moving to cloud: we all know this and the vendors certainly know. Hang on … no-one’s told the users Back in February I caused a bit of stir in the small pond of enterprise software industry analysts following a chin-wag with Kirill Tatarinov, Microsoft’s EVP of its Business Solutions Division. During the conversation, Tatarinov made the bold statement that: “No-one has done cloud ERP …Point me at a serious organisation that runs end-to-end ERP in the cloud.” As I wrote then, I believe Tatarinov misspoke and that much…

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Ecoregister – a national electronic database for improved access to environmental information

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Citizens in Serbia have gained a new electronic database, which provides quick, easy and simple way to learn about the documents related to the field of environment that are possessed by different institutions, enterprises and organizations in the country, as well as how to gain access to such documents.   The database was named “Ecoregister”, or the “National Metaregister for Environmental Information”, and it can be accessed on the Internet at the following address: www.ekoregistаr.sepа.gov.rs . Ecoregister represents at the same time an electronic database and a portal to the existing databases…

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Who Should Pay To Keep The Internet’s Locks Secure?

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The encryption code unlocked by the Heartbleed bug last week provided vital security for some of the most widely used websites on the Internet. Fortune 1000 companies rely on the open source code for their core business. But it turns out no one is paying for it. The software that got infected — and later fixed — is OpenSSL. It’s supposed to be the really safe, secure road on the Internet superhighway, where messages get encrypted and sent between users and servers. But the recent bug was like a gaping pothole. The volunteer team…

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VMware unveils cloud-based DR service

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Allows customers to automatically replicate infrastructure in one of VMware datacentres VMware has launched Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service from its vCloud Hybrid Service’s five datacentres. The will enable end users to access a disaster recover service to protect them from on-premise failures. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery will cost firms $835 a month including 1TB of storage with 10GHz vCPU and 20GB of vRAM (in a mult-tenant configuration). VMware said the low price meant customers could avoid owning tertiary datacentres for DR purposes and would also protect applications that were previously vulnerable…

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