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Microsoft Office 365 Can Benefit Small Businesses, Channel Partners
With the release of Office 365, Microsoft’s newest cloud service that brings together Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online, small businesses have an opportunity to move into the rapidly expanding cloud-computing space with the aim of making collaboration easier and reducing costs. As Microsoft launches its latest media blitz heralding the launch of…
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Cloud Computing Interoperability Presents Greater Challenge to Adoption Than Security: Report
The greatest challenge facing longer-term adoption of cloud computing services is not security, but rather cloud interoperability and data portability, say cloud computing experts from IEEE, a technical professional association. At the same time, IEEE’s experts say cloud providers could reassure customers by improving the tools they offer enterprise customers to give them more control…
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Tablets Hold Promise, Challenges for Channel
With the market for tablet computing devices exploding over the past year, value added resellers (VARs) have many opportunities to tap into the market to supply their customers with these versatile and mobile computers, which offer many advantages over desktop PCs and notebooks. Channel partners should also keep in mind the inherent challenges and limitations…
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Big Data Challenge More Than Managing Volumes of Data: Gartner
Many IT leaders are attempting to manage "big data" challenges by focusing on the high volumes of information to the exclusion of the many other dimensions of information management, leaving massive challenges to be addressed later, according to IT research firm Gartner. "Big data" is a popular term used to acknowledge the exponential growth, availability…
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Cyber-Security Breaches Hit 90 Percent of Businesses: Report
A survey of U.S. IT security professionals, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Juniper Networks, found the threat from cyber-attacks today is nearing statistical certainty and businesses of every type and size are vulnerable to attacks. Organizations today are experiencing multiple breaches, with more than half (59 percent) of respondents citing two or more…
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Disk Encryption a Priority for Businesses
As data protection mandates become stricter and high-profile instances of data loss proliferate in the media, a survey of more than 360 attendees at Infosecurity Europe 2011 found that two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) hold disk encryption to be an IT security priority. The survey also found that more than two in five respondents (42…