Year: 2015
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10 Ways Businesses Fail at Insider Threat Detection
Categories: SecurityCost of insider threats Bad Behavior 74% of respondents are primarily concerned about the threat from negligent or malicious employees, but 45% don’t know how much they plan to spend on insider threat technology in the next 12 months. Falling Short 47% of respondents do not have specific knowledge of their spending on insider threats.… Read more
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Quantum Builds Custom Partnerships
Categories: StorageAs Quantum continues its transformation from a hard-disk drive company to a specialist in storage, archiving and data protection, the company is focusing on creating custom programs and products for its key channel partners, including resellers and managed service providers (MSPs). This is a big job, considering that 90 percent of the company’s revenue flows… Read more
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How Lenovo Sees the PC Market’s Future
Categories: Tech CompaniesCelebrating the 10th anniversary of Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s PC business may be a time for the folks at Lenovo and its channel partners to reflect on how far they’ve come, but perhaps more significantly, it’s also a time to look ahead. Arguably, thanks to the rise of the tablet, the PC industry is going… Read more
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Big Data Moves Beyond Early Adoption Phase
Categories: Tech AnalysisThe biggest challenge with big data projects at this point isn’t mastering the technology. Rather, the difficulty lies in figuring out the use cases that will result in customers deploying big data technologies in production environments. By now, most IT organizations have either experimented with big data technologies, with a large number of them having… Read more
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Open-Source Software Reaches Near-Ubiquity
Categories: Tech AnalysisOpen source software Level of Open-Source Software Adoption To varying degrees, 78% of companies use open-source software. That’s almost twice as many organizations using open source than there were in 2010. Use of Open-Source Software More than nine out of 10 (93%) respondents said their use of open-source software stayed the same or increased in… Read more
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Cisco Rolls Out New Partner Programs
Cisco Rolls Out New Partner Programs On the first day of Cisco’s Partner Summit, the company made several announcements, including a new Software Partner Program and the next generation of the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Partner Program. The Cisco Software Partner Program provides enablement resources, incentives, benefits and rewards. New roles under the program… Read more