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Tuesday 27 March 2012

Finding Trusted Providers Is Critical for Cloud Adopton

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Leveraging Enterprise Software March 27, 2012
Results from a survey conducted by Dell Cloud Business Applications and Techaisle show adoption of cloud business applications is on the rise among small and medium businesses. The SMB Cloud Application Trends Survey measured the benefits and challenges faced in migrating applications to the cloud and found IT decision makers have critical roles in the success of cloud application decisions and implementations, and in choosing the right IT vendor. Read more >
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Are your references really that important in the hiring process? In a word — absolutely. Unfortunately, professional references are perhaps the most overlooked and underutilized tool in most people's employment arsenal.

A survey of 2,173 developers shows that mobile application development strategies are still a work in progress, which means that at this point it's still pretty much anybody's game to win or lose.

Distributed denial of server (DDoS) using spoofed recursive DNS requests are on the rise. These recommendations can help prevent DNS-based attacks, as well as cache poisoning.

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Study: You Can Thank Your Employees for Data Breach Headaches

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Daily Edge March 27, 2012
Symantec and the Ponemon Institute recently released the findings of the 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States, which reveals negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types. The study also found organizations that employ a chief information security officer (CISO) with enterprise-wide responsibility for data protection can reduce the cost of a data breach by 35 percent per compromised record. Read more >
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Retailers must respond to technology-savvy consumers by creating digitally rich, easy-to-use, technology-based experiences in the store to expand basket size and increase margins.

BYOD is a fact of life, not a go/no-go decision made by the IT department or upper management. Whether IT likes it or not, the ultimate decision is made by the employee.

Strong passwords are crucial because cyber criminals can assemble the information you share online and use it to inflict harm on your finances, reputation and career.
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Monday 26 March 2012

Tracking Key Performance Indicators

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To better understand customer experience, it is important to track certain key performance indicators (KPIs). By closely monitoring these KPIs in real time, companies can spot service degradations and possibly preempt their impact on customers. This slideshow features the top five KPIs to watch, as identified by Empirix. Read more >
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In this new era of users owning multiple Internet-connected devices, the combination of mobility, cloud services and social networks is creating blurred boundaries between personal computing and corporate resources.

If you run a large organization, then you know that equipment loss and theft are inevitable. Especially when assets are highly mobile or have a high probability to be stolen.

Trisha Gross explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson what Hubspan's seen in terms of cloud, enterprise application integration (EAI) and B2B integration.
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Squash These SharePoint Performance Killers

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Rapid user adoption is positive for any organization leveraging SharePoint for content collaboration and version control. As user adoption increases, however, so does the amount of data that must be stored in SharePoint. Content overload can wreak havoc on SharePoint infrastructure, and can become a leading cause of poor performance, not to mention the corresponding management headaches. Read more >
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There's an app for almost everything, and for iPad owners in the know, traveling has never been easier.

BYOD is a fact of life, not a go/no-go decision made by the IT department or upper management. Whether IT likes it or not, the ultimate decision is made by the employee.

Project failure has an enormous impact on government and private sector business alike, costing billions of dollars every year. Identify and remedy the warning signs before failure occurs using this checklist, compiled by the editors of IT Business Edge. Feel free to share this PDF with your coworkers or employees.
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