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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 17, 2015, 9:52 am EDT

By Deepak Kumar
Last year, Enterprise IT was dramatically shaped by the influx of security breaches, data leaks and a new wave of hackers. But optimism came in the form of Microsoft as word began to spread that the company had solved the problems they experienced with Windows 8/8.1 and that Windows 10 was better than the Enterprise […]

China’s Cheetah Mobile acquires France-based mobile ad company MobPartner for $58 million

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 16, 2015, 10:01 am EDT

Chinese mobile Internet company Cheetah Mobile, a recent spin-off from Kingston Corporation, has acquired France-based mobile advertising company MobPartner, in a deal with $58 million.

5 ways to manage emails and control spam in Outlook

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 12, 2015, 9:59 am EDT

Spam lives on, despite all our efforts to snuff it out—but Outlook has some features to help slow it down. Here are some things anyone can do, plus some tips for working within a corporate Outlook system. 1. Use Block Sender frequently

Control Costs, Boost Growth

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 12, 2015, 9:44 am EDT

Maybe the way to revive growth in the U.S. is to get costs under control for health care, college, retirement and infrastructure.

HP embraces open hardware designs with Cloudline servers

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 10, 2015, 9:35 am EDT

Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Microsoft in embracing open hardware designs with its new low-cost Cloudline servers.

Converged-infrastructure startup SimpliVity lands $175M with valuation above $1B

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 10, 2015, 9:35 am EDT

SimpliVity, a startup that sells data center hardware aggregating components typically sold separately — servers and storage boxes — is announcing today that it’s picked up a major funding round totaling $175 million. The money, which now gives SimplVity a valuation in excess of $1 billion, puts the startup in a position to more seriously […]

WANdisco sides with Open Data Platform as Hadoop debate spikes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 9, 2015, 10:47 am EDT

The Hadoop initiative unveiled by Pivotal and Hortonworks last month has a new recruit in WANdisco but the arguments about the Open Data Platform have only just kicked off.

Dealerships work to safeguard data as security breaches loom

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 9, 2015, 10:08 am EDT

Today, practices designed to protect customer data are becoming commonplace as regulators increasingly view auto dealerships as financial institutions in terms of the magnitude of personal consumer information collected in the FandI department.

What should banks be doing to protect themselves from cybercrime?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 9, 2015, 10:08 am EDT

When the prolific criminal Willie Sutton was asked why he specifically targeted banks, he purportedly replied: “Because that’s where the money is.” So it’s no surprise that cybercriminals have made banks a focus for online heists. Following the recently reported series of Carbanak cyber-thefts that taken up to a billion dollars from banks worldwide, a […]

Discussion Point: Will File Sharing Replace Your ECM Solution?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 9, 2015, 10:06 am EDT

Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) is a disruptive technology that burst into the information management space a few years ago. Workers worldwide were quick converts because they were tired of the big, difficult-to-use proprietary enterprise content management systems (ECM). As more workers started using EFSS, more and more analysts and vendors began to discuss the possible demise of ECM. But is that really possible? Compared to ECM systems, EFSS has relatively little functionality.
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