Tag: IT

  • IT Pros Lack Tools to Combat Social Media Cyber-Threats

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IT professionals consider social media as a positive business tool within the enterprise, but they were concerned they didn’t have the right technology and policies to deal with the dangers, a recent report found. The "Global Survey on Social Media Risks" from the Ponemon Institute released Sept. 29 surveyed 4,640 IT and IT security practitioners… Read more

  • The State of IT Security and Budgets at Midmarket Companies

    The State of IT Security and Budgets at Midmarket Companies

    Ericka Chickowski

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    The State of IT Security and Budgets at Midmarket Companies More than half of executives believe that security breaches within their organizations have increased during the last year. No Title 27 percent of executives said their organizations suffered a breach by unauthorized internal access in the last year. No Title 20 percent reported experiencing an… Read more

  • Industrialized, Low Cost IT Services The New Norm

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Gartner this week touted the adoption of industrialized, low-cost IT services (ILCS) as one of the best ways CIOs can reduce the cost of keeping the lights on in the coming years. A subset of both managed services and cloud services–certainly leveraging the benefits of cloud architecture–ILCS is best seen in the burgeoning infrastructure utility… Read more

  • IBM Report Finds IT Departments Favor Solid-State Storage Technology

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    IT professionals are embracing high-performance solid-state disks to support growing data storage demands driven by cloud computing and analytics technologies, a survey by technology giant IBM revealed. More than half (57 percent) of the customers surveyed responded that their organizations need to develop a new storage approach to manage future growth. The survey of 250… Read more

  • IT Pros Struggle With Consumer Tech in the Workplace

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    IT executives are struggling to protect corporate data and intellectual property as more employees use their personal devices to check work email, read documents and log in to enterprise systems, according to a recent study. Of the 750 IT professionals who took part in the Dell KACE-sponsored survey, 87 percent of the respondents said their… Read more

  • HP, Autonomy Acquisition: Is it Too Late Get Out?

    Jessica Davis

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    HP’s (NYSE:HPQ)  announcements last month took industry players and its own shareholders by surprise, with many questioning the wisdom of HP’s plans to dump its tablet computer, buy Autonomy and potentially get rid of its PC business, too. The concerns have led some to wonder if it’s possible for HP to get out of the… Read more