Inside the BriefcaseHow Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data
June 18, 2013 No CommentsBig Data, just like Cloud Computing, has become a popular phrase to describe technology and practices that have been in use for many years.
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Have Smartphones Made The Gaming Console Obsolete?
June 18, 2013 No CommentsJust two years ago, gaming consoles were rooted in almost every kid’s childhood. They were a way to escape reality and let your imagination soar as you engaged with the video game world. Some of my fondest childhood memories were from staying in the basement for days at a time as I attempted to beat every level of Super Mario Bros. and Zelda. Racing to get the newest Halo game, or to buy the new Madden football game has been the norm for years.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAthletes Launch Apps to Expand their Marketing Reach
June 12, 2013 No CommentsTech developers aren’t the only people launching mobile apps these days. Professional athletes from all over the world are starting to team up with software developers to launch their own apps in an ongoing effort to improve their personal brand and increase their marketing value.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBeware Trading Privacy for Convenience
June 11, 2013 No CommentsCustomers must take back control of their data.
Launching Addvocate Paid Beta
June 7, 2013 No CommentsToday we’re opening the doors to Addvocate. It’s incredibly gratifying to have been able to build this little idea of employee advocacy and coordination into a reality.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAnnouncing Boxer for iPhone
June 5, 2013 No CommentsAt Boxer, we believe email isn’t broken, it’s just unfair. It’s a to-do list that anyone can add a task to. How is that fair? We thought about that for a while and dreamed up a few other ways we could make the best mobile mail experience for the iPhone and created Boxer to put you back in control.
Blogs, Featured BlogsSpecial Opportunity for IT Briefcase Audience: Gartner CISO Invitational Program
May 30, 2013 No CommentsGartner will host the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Invitational Program
Survey: Despite Security Incidents, BYOD Worth The Risks
April 25, 2013 No CommentsThis year at Symantec Vision we wanted to better understand our customers’ perceptions of how personally owned mobile devices are used in their organization. To do this, we conducted a survey of 236 attendees asking how their company is addressing BYOD, including risks, challenges, polices, usage and management of mobile devices.
Blogs, Featured BlogsCelebrating Earth Day: The Best Earth Day Apps for Kids!
April 23, 2013 No CommentsToday marks Earth Day 2013! Every year on April 22, the world celebrates the birth of the modern environmental conservationist movement. With the human population already testing the Earth’s capacity to support us, it’s incredibly important to teach kids, as soon as possible, what they can do to help the world they live in. Here are three great kids’ apps that also happen to teach important lessons about the importance of being green!
Blogs, Featured BlogsTaking to the stage to showcase Granite momentum
April 19, 2013 No CommentsUnder a bright pair of spotlights, an IT admin wields a shop-vac and metaphorically vacuums up the storage, apps, and backup that is “stuck” in a remote branch office. After returning it to a data center storage array cabinet conveniently located on stage, Eric Wolford, Riverbed President of Products, proclaims, “Your data center now holds everything, it costs less, and it’s completely secure.”
Blogs, Featured Blogs4 Ways Health IT Can Help Minorities
April 15, 2013 No CommentsWhile the powers of healthcare IT to radically transform the health of a patient population are widely lauded, one thing that isn’t discussed as much are the areas where the technology could do the most good but doesn’t often reach to. Take Washington, D.C., for example: One of the richest, most tech-savvy cities in the nation, it also has remarkably low rates of obesity. Almost. Taking a closer look reveals that the 8th Ward, a predominantly lower income section of the city populated by minorities has a high level of obesity, skewing the district’s numbers.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBig Data and the Big Opportunity to Reform Education
April 5, 2013 No CommentsIn big data terms, every human being is a rich resource. Students, from enrollment to grades to the clubs they join, generate as much data as any of us. Institutions of both higher and elementary learning are already working towards using this information to better the education they provide, the way they handle different student demographics and even the way they research fields like literature.
Blogs, Featured BlogsSay Hello To Your New Personal Assistant (Your Phone, Big Data and the Cloud)
March 27, 2013 No CommentsDo you sift through your email 50 times a day because you’re afraid of missing something? Or leave a meeting across town and then realize that you could have met with a prospect two blocks from where you were 30 minutes ago? These human errors may soon become things of the past, thanks to the evolution of big data, the cloud and mobility. In the not-too-distant future, mobile devices will have the data they need in order to send the right notifications, just when you need them, ranging from whether a client is nearby to how warm your home is.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBig Data and Business Intuition Work Together
March 20, 2013 No CommentsShould you rely on your intuition? Or should you trust the facts and forget about your gut? In business, it’s an age-old debate. Steve Jobs was famous for ignoring marketing analysis, stating things like “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” On the other hand, Time Warner Cableuses data analysis throughout its organization, successfully deciding everything from how many routers to use to which ads to deliver.
Blogs, Featured BlogsChrome OS and the Cloak of Unhackability
March 19, 2013 No CommentsOnce upon a time there was a modest young operating system named “Chrome OS.” It tried to live a quiet life helping others, but its ancient roots made some in the mainstream computing world wary. Not only was it one of the first examples of a new type of operating system, focused as it was on the browser, but it was also descended from Linux, the very name of which was still widely misunderstood among the masses.
Blogs, Featured BlogsHow GoodData Helped Marketron Win New Business
March 1, 2013 No CommentsWhen I started working with Marketron more than two years ago, we were in the process of finding a solution that would help us maximize the information that we could cull from our data. Eighty percent of the $15 billion in U.S. radio advertising spend flows through our solutions. We were sitting on a wealth of knowledge. We wanted to pull it into new services for our customer base.
Blogs, Featured BlogsGoing Mobile: Advances in Mobility Lead to Smarter Travel
January 11, 2013 No CommentsMillions of people took to the roads and skies to visit friends and families for the holidays in 2012. In fact, according to AAA, this was the busiest holiday travel year since 2006, with 93.3 million Americans traveling. The news is encouraging to leaders across the travel industry, many of whom are looking for innovative ways to improve and enhance the customer experience. One area getting particular attention is mobile computing. Advances in technologies and services should take more guesswork out of travel and pave the way for increased, more stress-free and smarter travel.
Blogs, Featured BlogsFood Genius Serves Appetizing Analytics to Restaurant Owners
January 8, 2013 No CommentsRunning a restaurant can be a risky enterprise, prone to fickle culinary trends and stock overages. Moreover, up to 40% of the U.S. food supply goes to waste, according to a report released last August by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Chicago-based startup Food Genius aims to shine some light on dining trends and ingredient demand using predictive analytics, serving these insights to restaurant owners, food producers, and distributors.
Blogs, Featured BlogsElderwood Project Behind Latest Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability
January 7, 2013 No CommentsIn our recent blogs about the latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, we explained what watering hole attacks are and referenced our research paper about the Elderwood Project. The paper highlights a string of watering hole attacks by the Elderwood group. After revisiting those previous attacks, we have been able to confirm that this latest Internet Explorer zero-day is a continuation of the Elderwood Project.
Blogs, Featured BlogsCloud Computing And Virtualization
December 31, 2012 No CommentsPeople often ask what is the real difference of cloud computing and “the internet” or “ isn’t the internet already cloud computing”. I often tell them that cloud computing does not equal the internet or vice-versa, the internet is simply the best delivery platform that cloud computing can make use of.
2013 – The Year ‘Software-defined’ Flash technologies and Virtualization of Tier 1 Applications Transform the Enterprise Storage World
December 27, 2012 No CommentsDuring the past year, we have seen the first steps in a move to software-defined architectures. This has spurred a number of critical trends that are reshaping and having a major impact in the enterprise storage world, setting the stage for 2013 to become the year software-defined storage transforms the data center.
Blogs, Featured BlogsLooking ahead to 2013? Tips to Help Enterprises Stay Ahead of the Evolving Communications Landscape
December 13, 2012 No CommentsWith 2013 around the corner, trimming costs while enhancing efficiency and productivity is top of mind for organizations. Enterprise communications is a critical place to start, as this landscape has evolved extensively and exponentially over the years, not to mention telecom consistently falls within the top three largest expenses.
Blogs, Featured BlogsOperation High Roller Campaign Attempts to Steal €61,000 From German Banks
November 20, 2012 No CommentsJust as we thought that automated transfer systems (ATS) used in SpyEye and Zeus malware families were becoming outdated and less innovative since the discovery of Operation High Roller earlier this year, we have discovered a newly emerging attack targeting the European SEPA payments network.
Blogs, Featured BlogsMobility and Cloud Computing Are Driving Information Sprawl
November 13, 2012 No CommentsSymantec’s first State of Information report examined how organizations are dealing with information today, in light of significant changes in the data center. Symantec’s Digital Information Index sheds light on where information is being stored today, as well as some of the challenges that businesses are dealing with as a result of this transition in the way we store and access our information.
Blogs, Featured BlogsHoliday Shopping Season Gets ‘Sentimental’
November 1, 2012 No CommentsAs October draws to a close, consumers are breaking out their notepads and starting to compile their holiday gift lists. For their part, retailers are fine-tuning in-store and online workshops for Thanksgiving Day – the unofficial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season.
Blogs, Featured BlogsGreen Planet
October 31, 2012 No CommentsToday’s rapidly evolving society and markets are not only demanding your company to be productive and efficient, but also to respect and protect the environment. This combination that walks hand in hand is being consolidated over the years and strengthened by the social awareness that looks after future and current interests.
Blogs, Featured Blogs, Top StoriesSalesforce, Cloud File Sharing and Syncplicity
October 30, 2012 No CommentsThe news that Salesforce.com will be getting into the file sharing business comes as no surprise – of course Marc Benioff and team know that their users need access to their files from their preferred applications. It makes perfect senses to us that any cloud-based application vendor, especially in CRM, would provide its users better ways to leverage the cloud to access and share files and collaborate. Arguably, Salesforce has already been in the market for some time, and there is no question that the market for business-grade file access and sharing is taking off.
How are we expected to deliver good software – can DevOps really help?
October 24, 2012 No CommentsThis Summit will be held from 9:30am to 5:30pm at the Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam. For further information call the team or 01895 256 484 or email info@unicom.co.uk to request a booking form or reserve delegates place.
The Difference Between See and Do – Five Ways SMBs Are Putting Information to Work
October 22, 2012 No CommentsThe “business intelligence” space is loaded to the gills with software and service providers that promise to provide “insight,” “discovery,” “analysis,” and all sorts of other wonderful sounding things that are designed to let people make better decisions.
Blogs, Featured BlogsBella Consults for Bissantz: Staring at stars
October 10, 2012 No CommentsThe newspaper “Die Welt” drew a picture. Of 100 eBay stars. 23 are filled, 77 are empty. One star is 10 percent. 10 stars are 100 percent. A star can be filled. Each star has 5 spikes. 2 spikes are 4 percent. 10 values are to be starred. The biggest value is 28 percent. That’s roughly 3 stars. Complicated? “Die Welt” thought so, too. For 20, 19, 18, 17, and 15, they simply filled 2 stars completely.
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