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Cloud-based ERP customers stuck in the slow lane

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 enews

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…

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

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 enews

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…

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

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 enews

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…

VMware unveils cloud-based DR service

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

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…

E-Notebook: Click Instead of Pen

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

Education There was a time when pupils used a pen to enter sentences, essays, mathematical formulas into their notebooks – now they can directly enter tables, images, and even links to videos into an electronic workbook. Instead of using pocket or rucksack, children carry an online notebook in their mobile phone, tablet or computer, and they can access it no matter where they are. In some schools, teaching using electronic notebook has already become a regular occurrence, and the teachers have become used to communicating with students in this way.…

Calculating ROI for CRM

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

What if Jerry Maguire had used a customer relationship management (CRM) system? Let’s hop in the time machine as we go back to that infamous Tom Cruise movie. Remember how Tom—I mean Jerry—gets fired by Bob Sugar, and then both men run to their offices to secure as many clients as possible? Jerry starts his own firm with the one and only client he could save. After many months of “help me, help you,” his business finally gets its legs. Would CRM have made a difference? As the late, great, Dicky Fox…

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation with Lakshmi Rebecca

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

Interview The host of India’s popular online chat show, Chai with Lakshmi, talks about technology and her focus on “people making a difference.” She’s the face behind Chai with Lakshmi, an online chat show about people and ideas shaping India for the future. Former model, marketing consultant and social worker Lakshmi Rebecca started the show in 2011, at age 30. Since then, her YouTube-only show has had over 110 ‘webisodes’ and 2.8 million views, mostly from within India, and has won several awards. This girl from Hyderabad grew up in Chennai, studied…

Attacks involving financial malware rise to 28 million in 2013

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

According to the study ‘Financial cyber threats in 2013’ conducted by Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are increasingly trying to gain access to the online accounts of users. Last year, the number of cyber attacks involving financial malware increased to 28.4 million – 27.6% more than 2012. Programs designed to steal financial information include banking Trojans, keyloggers and two relatively new classes of malware – one that steals from Bitcoin wallets and another that downloads software to generate the crypto-currency. The combined activity of programs targeting Bitcoin became one of the main…

Virtual Patches for the Time of Change

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

Nowadays quick updates of fragments of code or systems are a key mechanism for maintaining high level of protection of users and their data The number of zero-day exploits has risen sharply in 2013, impacting the security of individual users as well as whole organizations. As the day when Microsoft ends support of Windows XP draws near, the discussion about the necessity of elimination of IT vulnerabilities using expansions, patches and additional software which protect systems from zero-day exploits becomes more heated. Virtual patching is one of the mechanisms that…

Do you think you’re smarter than your smart device?

April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 enews

Smart technology – the favorite invention of the 20th century for many gadget geeks. If you type ‘smart’ in your Google, first thing that comes up is an information regarding technology, not human intelligence. No doubt – we started living in the sci-fi movies we skeptically watched, until recently. It seems like everything is developing so fast, that we quite soon we will have to ask ourselves – can we compete with our smart devices? Okay, let’s see. Vacuum cleaning, everyone’s favorite chore. You can hardly wait for weekend to…