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Businesses have always generated value through their data, using what little information they could gleam from their customers and systems into insight that would direct future investments and initiatives. Now, advances in the software and hardware that power information technology ...
The world of cloud computing gets more complicated with each passing year. What was once just an extension of centralized computing is now a collection of all kinds of virtualized and remotely delivered services, including a number of minor offerings ...
The cloud may be one of the longest running buzzwords in the IT industry, but it's with good reason. The power and flexibility that the cloud can offer far outshines what most midsize businesses can accomplish with their own internal ...
As smartphones and other pieces of mobile technology become more and more fundamental to business life, many midsize businesses are adopting mobile technology policies on-the-fly, choosing mobile benefits over business security. A new report shines some light on just how ...
The concept of the cloud seems to be everywhere in the business world these days, and it can be intimidating for those who have yet to fully embrace it. Many midsize businesses simply didn't have any major IT changes planned ...
Information Technology can be a difficult endeavor for a small or midsize business, especially as the tech demands of today's marketplace continue to skyrocket as tech budgets seem to languish. One solution to the problem that's quickly gaining steam is ...
As Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs ramp up in offices around the world, it's fairly easy to assume that this shift in mobility will have some severe security ramifications. A new report out of the UK shows just how ...
The question "what is social business?" is being heard more and more these days. While some may interpret the phrase to mean normal business plus a social media element, the true social business is a completely different animal from its ...
The annual college basketball tournament may be a highly anticipated yearly event for sports and gambling enthusiasts, but for IT personnel at small and midsize businesses, it can also be a tremendous headache. A new survey takes a look at ...
The past few years have seen virtualization grow from a fledgling technology used by just the biggest companies into one of the industry's hottest trends. Now, new insight from IBM shows how this technology has progressed to become not just ...
Ask an IT manager what kind of event is likely to completely take down their systems, and you'll probably get extremely unlikely incidents like natural disasters or massive power failures. However, a new study of small and midsize businesses shows ...
The continued issues regarding information security and mobile devices are leading to the development of corporate application stores, where employees have self-serve access to apps that have been tested and pre-approved for corporate use. If this trend continues as expected, ...
At this point there's a cloud-based solution for just about any IT problem out there, as the term continues to be the hottest trend in the industry. Still, a number of businesses and organizations, especially those with tight mandates regarding ...
Fusion-io just announced a new flash product designed for companies that want to convert a large data center to the fastest memory available. The move raises some questions about where memory in the data center is headed, and getting on ...
With each passing day, midsize organizations accumulate more and more data, either through new innovations using existing infrastructure or through new endeavors like cloud computing. As the value of all this data starts to become clear, there is going to ...
Recently, as Research in Motion (RIM) has been gearing up for its huge new operating system and device release, the company received another piece of good news: Visa has approved the company's Near Field Communication (NFC) mobile payment program. The ...
Gartner's reports on the security trends of the future are always eye-openers, but its latest may be even more shocking than normal. The combination of cloud computing, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, and the rise of social media mean that 2013 is ...
The city of Chicago just announced that it would be converting all of its employees to desktop and email applications based on Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite. With even security-conscious organizations taking the plunge into cloud computing, midsize businesses ...
A joint venture between three of Europe's most prominent tech companies just launched and is tasked with making the world of smartphone security just a little bit stronger. Businesses looking to expand their customer offerings into the mobile space, or ...
Cloud computing may be one of the hottest terms floating around the tech world these days, but its takeover is far from complete. Despite the ease and cost-efficiency of cloud backup, the market for dedicated backup appliances is still fairly ...