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Open Source: Big Deal For Big Data
Although the term was only coined in 2009, ‘big data’ has quickly become one of the most talked about concepts in IT today. The existence...
Seeing The Whites Of Their Eyes: Telepresence Versus Smartphone Video
As the proliferation of smart devices continues to evolve within the enterprise, the use of video communications is undoubtedly on the rise. Yet the question...
Bringing Your Home IT To Work
In the past a laptop or mobile phone was often considered a business perk, but in an age where mobile devices have become a common...
Tape Storage Is Back In Vogue
Big datasets used to be the exclusive-domain of only a few verticals – Financial Services, Oil and Gas, Life Sciences to name a few. These...
Assessing The Value Of Today’s Collaboration Solutions
In the last decade, we have moved from the first generation of collaboration focused on individuals within a single company, to more advanced tools that...
Hardware Matters More Than Ever In The Cloud
You’re a CEO of HotDotCom.com. It’s three in the morning and your VP of Sales for Asia texts to say that the site is loading...
SCIM: Standards Are Taking Hold In The Cloud
While software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications were designed to provide simple on-demand computing for today’s business needs, this new era of computing has opened up...
3 Steps To Ensuring Laptops Are Trusted, Healthy And Managed
Enterprises that want to secure IT networks should start by protecting the device, ensure data is encrypted and monitor device health from activation to decommissioning....
Unified Communications: The Time Is Right For Enterprises
Unified Communications (UC) is by no means a new concept. In fact, it’s become a much-touted phrase, with analysts, vendors and IT commentators reporting on...
Is This The Beginning Of The End For Android?
In one of my blogs last month, I commented on Android’s ongoing vulnerabilities due to its very ‘open nature’. This has resulted in several security...
What Does “Workplace Culture” Really Mean?
Productive organisations are those with a healthy workplace culture. But what does that phrase, “workplace culture” really mean? How can a company improve its culture?...
ZX Spectrum: Paying Homage To An Inspiration To A Generation
Thirty year’s ago the world of home computing changed massively. The ZX Spectrum, which launched on 23 April 1982 from Sinclair Research, was different from...
Cyber Security Officials Should Rethink Software As Their Defence
When the Stuxnet virus caused centrifuges to malfunction at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reprocessing facility last year, it put cybersecurity officials around the world on notice...
Dirty Disks Raise New Questions About Cloud Security
Research has identified potentially significant flaws in the implementation of Cloud infrastructure services offered by some providers, which could be putting their clients’ data at...
REVIEW: WD Sentinel DX4000
A late entrant in the crowded Network Attached Storage (NAS) market, the Sentinel DX4000 certainly stands out from the competition and for a number of...
