Year: 2011
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Small-Business Owners Confident About Future Success
Small-business owners are battling regulatory challenges and the war for talent, factors that are negatively impacting their bottom line and potentially altering how they vote in 2012, according to the findings of The Hartford’s Small Business Success Study. Despite high unemployment rates, finding qualified talent is a challenge for 59 percent of small-business owners, according… Read more
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FBI, Security Vendors Partner to Take Down Hacker Consortium
Categories: SecurityThe FBI got an assist from IT security researchers in an operation to shut down one of the world’s longest-running and most-costly botnets that ended last week. In addition to ridding the world of one of its more odious malware infestations, "Operation Ghost Click" also nabbed a brazen criminal consortium of "clickjacking" hackers. The operation… Read more
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Mobile Management Styles Driven by Consumerization: Gartner
Consumerization is now the primary driver of the mobile universe, and CIOs must be ready to embrace a range of more-flexible approaches to their mobile strategy, according to research from IT anayltics firm Gartner. At least four new mobile management styles will emerge as leaders because different groups of staff will demand different approaches: Control,… Read more
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Solarflare, Fusion-io Partner to Create Big Data Applications
Solarflare, a provider of application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking hardware and software, announced it is collaborating with Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), a specialist in shared data decentralization, on solutions that accelerate applications. A member of Fusion-io’s Technology Alliance Program, Solarflare’s products, paired with Fusion-io products, are designed to minimize latency and increase application performance. Solarflare’s application-intelligent… Read more
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Cloud-Based Data Storage Will Increase in 2012: Drobo
Data storage specialist Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year, based on the company’s interactions with customers, analysts and industry experts, predicting pure cloud adoption will become less common than a hybrid approach that tightly integrates public and private cloud architectures with modern on-premises storage systems a trend the company said will… Read more
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Google Apps for Business Now Has Complete 24/7 Phone Support
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nov. 14 added 24/7 phone support in its Google Apps for Business for all issues, providing an additional lure for CIOs considering Google’s paid collaboration suite as an alternative to Microsoft software. Launched in February 2007, Google Apps for Business (formerly Google Apps Premier Edition) costs $50 per user, per year, or $5… Read more