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As mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs, laptops, Blackberrys, and other mobile gadgets spread across the enterprise landscape, business executives are finding themselves working with CIOs and IT managers to fight a multiple-front security war.
Security attacks are not lessening with the economic downturn; in fact, research shows just the opposite. The number of data breaches at businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions in the United States jumped by nearly 50 percent in 2008 compared with 2007…
Business-continuity planning has become standard in big firms in recent years. But most plans are designed to deal with short-term events such as hurricanes or terrorist attacks. Preparation for these sorts of emergency can be fairly straightforward…
Open source is so widely accepted that traditional software firms are beginning to dabble in it, while some open-source firms are starting to sell proprietary add-ons to open-source programs instead of charging to provide support to firms using open-source software. If current trends hold, traditional software firms and their open-source rivals will soon be hard to tell apart.
Computer users are going to need browsers that are a good deal more secure than they are today. As computer applications move from the desktop to the web (“cloud” in modern geek-speak), more of people’s personal and professional lives will be filtered through their browsers. Keeping such information secure is becoming essential.
Cloud computing aims to become a legitimate delivery mechanism for enterprise IT, serving up everything from processing power to storage to mission-critical applications. In fact, already 99% of businesses are at least considering implementing cloud computing. Unisys thought leaders Rich Marcello and Sam Gross were interviewed about their experience in cloud computing.
According to a report published by the Climate Group, a think-tank based in London, computers, printers, mobile phones and the widgets that accompany them account for the emission of 830m tonnes of carbon dioxide around the world in 2007. That is about 2% of the estimated total of emissions from human activity.
It is not just that more and more software will become a service delivered online. More importantly, applications, web-based or not, will no longer come as a big chunk of software, but will be made up of a combination of electronic services – a shift that has picked up a lot of speed since computing began moving into the cloud.
There is a ray of hope for CFOs who would like to upgrade the condition of corporate healthcare plans from "critical" to "stable." Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system.
Aside from a handful of high-profile casualties, the global insurance industry seems, so far, to have escaped the worst ravages of the financial crisis. Mainstream business operations are holding up well. Problems have only arisen from exposures to risky financial instruments, such as credit default swaps (CDS) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO) or losses on investment portfolios.
Recent studies suggest that fewer than one-fifth of the doctors’ offices in America offer EHRs (electronic health records)... Yet although most health-care providers have installed computer systems to deal with back-office tasks such as billing, shockingly few have modernised the bits of their business...
Unisys thought leaders Terry Hartmann and Bryan Ichikawa were interviewed and quoted about their opinions and experience in identity management, including topics such as security vs. privacy and “one card fits all.”
Technology changes are often accompanied by fanfare, but in recent years at least one quiet technology revolution has been developing in the workplace. Individuals are adopting for work use the applications and devices they have learned to use in their personal lives.
As mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs, laptops, Blackberrys, and other mobile gadgets spread across the enterprise landscape, business executives are finding themselves working with CIOs and IT managers to fight a multiple-front security war.
In the days of the mainframe, when computers and their peripherals filled entire rooms, people communicated with these machines first via punch cards and then via green-glowing monitors, which were simply dumb terminals. Only with the rise of personal computers did the user interface become more intelligent, responsive and graphical.
The metaphor of the global supply chain, meant to convey strength through interconnectedness, has lately come to symbolise the opposite: companies dragging each other down as one fails to gauge demand while another struggles to meet it, or to manage the cashflow needed to remain a viable part of it.
Facing economic uncertainty, volatile energy prices and intensifying global competition, large multinational corporations are seeking strategic and operational advantages more than ever before. Among the key operational components most demonstrably tied to business success is the efficiency of global supply chains...
Even before Ajit Singh made a formal announcement about his company's offshoring plans, employees knew what he would say. "The more I talked", recalls the CEO of Bioimagene, a maker of computer-aided diagnostic tools, "the more I think they could see my rationale."
A team of computer scientists led by Roxana Geambasu of the University of Washington, Seattle unveiled to the 18th USENIX Security Symposium in Montreal an e-communications system that destroys messages soon after they have been sent.
Microsoft's new data centre in Northlake, a suburb of Chicago, is one of the world's most modern, biggest and most expensive. These containers solve many of the problems that tend to crop up when putting up huge data centers: packaging and transporting servers cheaply, limiting their appetite for energy and installing them only when they are needed.
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