Inside the BriefcaseNew research from SAP and Oxford Economics proves that strong leadership from the finance function pays off. Organizations exhibiting the six traits of Finance Leadership are more likely to enjoy growing market share and less likely to worry about rising costs.
(FRISCO, Texas) Skinny IT, a Frisco-based information technology (IT) service provider, today announced the acquisition of Installation & Service Technologies, Inc. (IST), a single-source solution provider for on-site service and repairs, to enhance the company’s ability to deliver on-site deployments for clients nationwide. Previously, Skinny IT deployed its own on-site workers for high-volume orders. The acquisition of IST enhances Skinny IT’s ability to reach clients with tailored, on-site services, including surveys, project management, staging and kitting, installations, service contracts and depot repair.
NewsInnovations in analytics and big data management will make it possible for businesses not only to handle growth in data but also make better sense of it than they do today. IDC predicts that the percentage of useful data will grow from 22 percent in 2013 to 37 percent in 2020, even as the volume of data available grows expontentially.
NewsAtmosera, a premier Tier-I Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), today announced the availability of Microsoft Azure Government to customers who qualify for this secure, government-only cloud. Azure Government became available in June 2017 through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and requires partners to qualify to deploy customers within its multiple data center regions. Atmosera’s success with government customers and their increasing demand to deploy in Azure made it an important mandate.
NewsG2 Crowd, the world’s leading business solutions review website, today announced the appointment of Ryan Bonnici as chief marketing officer. Bringing more than a decade of experience developing cutting-edge sales and marketing programs for some of the world’s leading enterprise technology companies, Bonnici will serve a key role as a member of G2 Crowd’s executive team, focused on strengthening the company’s positioning in the B2B reviews marketplace.
NewsHyperGrid, the Enterprise Cloud-as-a-Service leader, today offered its 2018 IT predictions. As the cloud continues to be a priority for businesses, there is also a great deal of discussion about what will come next. Now, as the end of 2017 approaches, HyperGrid CEO Nariman Teymourian shares his key predictions about tech trends for the new year.
NewsAs Nancy Sinatra explained, boots are made for walking. Booters, on the other hand, are made for stomping websites right off the Internet. Isn’t it strange that you’re able to purchase both footwear and cyberattacks from your smartphone today? Since booters are essentially Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack services for hire, it’s a good idea to recap just what a DDoS attack is.
It is the latest wave of the company’s purpose-built DDoS mitigation solution designed to meet the security requirements of all brands, on-premise and in the cloud, to deal with the next generation of cyber threats. This powerful upgrade adds Neustar’s state of the art WAF (web application firewall) solution to the award-winning Neustar SiteProtect solution to extend network protection to the application layer. A new real-time user interface provides consolidated in-depth trend analysis and gives brands unprecedented access to attack forensics that are not currently available through traditional defense services.
NewsPegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced the availability of Pega® Deployment Manager, a no-code, model-driven capability that enables businesses to accelerate the deployment of new applications and software updates. Now organizations can jumpstart their stalled DevOps initiatives to reduce time to market and lower operating costs while continuously disrupting their industries.
NewsAtmosera, a premier Tier-I Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), today announced its Azure Migration Assessment Program for organizations focused on transitioning website infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. The new program includes the only free assessment of its kind to evaluate website workloads and performance data to develop an optimal cloud architecture.
NewsSince 2016, the BBC’s R&D user experience team have invested time and money into developing a new kind of audience experience. Significant advancements in real-time rendering have led to the creation of video games that have the audio and visual quality to rival the big screen. Meanwhile, broadcasting has also shifted away from tradition towards a more object-based, IP distribution, resulting in more engaging and interactive user experiences.
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing, commerce, and even healthcare. Think smarter, more efficient factories. Supply chains and distribution networks revolutionized by real-time location data. Imagine more fault-tolerant systems for producing products, food, and power. This is the promise of Industry 4.0, and the transformation is already underway.
In the coming year, the number of data breaches will grow along with the volume of compromised records, becoming far more expensive for organizations of all sizes. Costs will come from traditional areas, such as network clean-up and customer notification, as well as newer areas such as litigation involving a growing number of parties. Angry customers will pressure governments to introduce tighter data protection legislation, bringing new and unforeseen costs. The resulting mess of international regulations will create new compliance headaches for organizations while doing little to deter attackers. Not only will the number of data breaches grow, the scale of data breaches will also grow and individuals around the world will wearily expect their personal data to be compromised.
NewsThe Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today released a new report titled Cloud Security for Startups. The new white paper, developed by the CSA’s Israel chapter, aims to help Software-as-a-Service Startups (SaaS-SUs) gain and maintain customer trust by building solid security foundations at an early stage of the product development process. In establishing security controls to match risks at any point in time, SaaS-SUs can successfully align those controls with product development and investment rounds.
NewsTechnology has transformed the way in which businesses operate, and this article considers the Top Five Technology Advancements that had the biggest impact on businesses. Each of these advancements can be thought of as waves of transformation that revolutionized in paradigm shifts that are described below.
ScaleArc, a leader in database uptime, announced today that Telmate has built ScaleArc software into its telecom environment to improve availability and performance of its communications services. Telmate provides video and audio communications to inmates in correctional facilities, enabling connectivity with loved ones and improved mental health. The technology provider also delivers verification and investigative tools and services that increase physical safety and effectiveness of correctional facilities.
NewsForcepoint is releasing more than 40 new software and hardware features across its Forcepoint Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) products that enhance the understanding of user behavior and data flow throughout an enterprise or government organization to rapidly identify and eliminate risk. These capabilities work together as an intelligent ‘Human Point System’ to protect the human point as people interact with data across disparate networks.
NewsIBM X-Force research follows developments in the financial cybercrime arena to map the events and trends that shape the threat landscape for organizations and consumers alike. After a year that has been very active in terms of banking malware, point-of-sale (POS) malware and rampant ransomware attacks, the X-Force team identified a new banking Trojan active in the wild dubbed IcedID.
NewsIo-Tahoe LLC, a pioneer in machine learning-driven smart data discovery solutions that span data lakes and relational databases, today unveiled a new offering to enable customers to quickly and comprehensively address requirements for the
NewsToday HyTrust, Inc., a leader in workload security solutions, announced findings from its latest cloud adoption survey conducted at VMWorld 2017. The survey of 323 respondents assessed deployment decisions for cloud infrastructure, containers and workload security along with risk and compliance from cloud deployments. The most significant result was the large number of companies that are not prepared for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance that takes effect in May 2018.
NewsSlashNext, a provider of third-generation Internet security solutions, today announced the company’s broad market release of the SlashNext Internet Access Protection System to protect organizations from cross platform social engineering and phishing, malware, exploits and callback attacks. The system goes beyond first generation signature-based and second generation sandbox-based technologies and deploys human-like intelligence and cognitive thinking to stop these Internet attacks targeting unsuspecting employees as their entry points.
NewsInformation Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the launch of WebFOCUS 8.202, the latest version of its award-winning BI and analytics platform. Drawing on extensive behavioral and user experience design research, the new release provides an enhanced user interface and key workflow improvements that reduce the amount of time and skill needed to derive data-backed insights.
NewsFor the 12th year, SAS is named a leader in Gartner’s October 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools*. SAS was recognized based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
NewsAdaptiva, the market leader in modern endpoint management and security, today announced the launch of a new Windows 10 Security Package for the company’s Client Health™ endpoint security engine. The package consists of 19 new health checks specifically designed to automatically find and fix Windows 10-related endpoint security configuration management issues.
NewsIBM Cloud Private software is designed to enable companies to create on-premises cloud capabilities similar to public clouds to accelerate app development. The new platform is built on the open source Kubernetes-based container architecture and supports both Docker containers and Cloud Foundry. This facilitates integration and portability of workloads as they evolve to any cloud environment, including the public IBM Cloud.
NewsSchneider Electric, the global specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today introduced Smart-UPS™ with APC SmartConnect, the first and only cloud-enabled uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for distributed IT environments. The solution enables businesses, particularly small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) that have limited IT staff and resources, to proactively and effectively manage the health of their UPS systems.
NewsOctober 31, 2017 – DigiCert Inc., the leading global provider of scalable identity and encryption solutions for the enterprise, and Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that DigiCert has completed its acquisition of Symantec’s Website Security and related PKI solutions. With the transition of SSL validation, issuance and other processes to DigiCert, Symantec customers have a clear path forward to maintain trust in their SSL certificates.
NewsCloudJumper, a leading Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform innovator for agile business IT, today announced the company has expanded its strategic relationship with ProfitBricks, a leading channel-focused cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, to deploy nWorksSpace WaaS solutions within the Switch Tier 5® Data Center campus in Las Vegas.
NewsNTT DATA Services, a recognized leader in global technology services, today announced an expanded agreement with Automation Anywhere to include its RPA, cognitive and analytics solutions in NTT DATA’s end-to-end automation ecosystem, Solutions for Intelligent Automation (SIA).
NewsTweet SOURCE: IBM ARMONK, N.Y. – 26 Oct 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced sweeping advances in its all-flash storage solutions and software to significantly drive down the costs of data and extend its solutions for hybrid and private cloud environments. New ultra-dense FlashSystem array capable of storing more data in the same footprint, contributes […]
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