The problems facing chief information officers
With technologies like cloud systems and big data increasingly in demand the role of the chief information officer (CIO) is evolving and throwing up new problems all the time.
Enterprise search company Lucidworks has produced an infographic looking at the changes most affecting CIOs and what can be done to embrace them.
Five into one will go -- ARCTIC Smart Charger 8000 [Review]
Most of today's gadgets seem to use USB for charging their batteries so you inevitably end up with a whole stack of cables and the mains power adapters to go with them.
If you're looking to simplify things the Smart Charger 8000 from Swiss company ARCTIC may be the solution. It's a little box with five USB ports that allows you to charge a number of devices at the same time. It intelligently detects the devices connected to it in order to provide the best charging speed for each one.
New marketing tool allows email to be personalized right up to it being opened
Most marketers are focused on providing a personalized experience for the customer. However, many still rely on email communication. Whilst this is still an effective delivery method there’s an inevitable time lag in the message arriving by which time it could be out of date.
That delay may be a thing of the past as eCommerce specialist Reflektion is launching Right Time Messaging. This has the ability to hyper personalize emails to individual recipients right up to the moment the message is opened.
100 percent cloud is closer than you think
Cloud management specialist BetterCloud has released the results of its latest survey into the pace of cloud adoption in businesses.
The survey of 1,500 IT professionals from 53 countries also looks at the differences in cloud office systems and their customers, the current and expected usage rates for cloud applications, and the effects of cloud office systems on productivity, collaboration, cost savings and more.
Windows 10 in the enterprise? Not for six months, thanks
According to a new survey from Microsoft System Center specialist Adaptiva, 71 percent of IT leaders plan on waiting six months or more before deploying Windows 10.
In the survey, conducted at Microsoft Ignite 2015, 49 percent said they planned to wait a year or more before updating. Of larger companies 80 percent of those with over 100,000 nodes said they are planning to adopt in a year or more.
Ecommerce traffic being hijacked by client side malware
According to new research 15 to 30 percent of eCommerce site visitors are infected with Client Side Injected Malware (CSIM) that causes them to view injected ads, malicious links and fraudulent spyware on otherwise legitimate sites.
These findings are from a study by online security company Namogoo which shows that CSIM has grown rapidly in the past two years and is able to operate completely undetected by site publishers because it lives locally on consumers' systems.
Microsoft Surface Hub coming to a business near you soon
The promise of surface computing for businesses seems to have been around for ages, remember all those cool videos of interactive coffee tables and screens from around three years ago? Yet so far there hasn't been a great deal of practical application.
That could be about to change as Microsoft makes its Surface Hub available for businesses to order in 24 markets -- including Australia, North America, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the UK -- from July 1.
PandaDoc integrates with Zendesk to simplify customer service paperwork
Four things businesses need to know about payment card compliance
We reported last month that new security standards for the payment card industry, known as PCI DSS, were coming into force by the end of June.
Security company Rapid7 has produced an infographic looking at PCI compliance, cybersecurity and new related requirements for penetration testing. Based on data from the Verizon 2015 PCI Compliance Report it sets out four things enterprises should know about going into PCI compliance.
Ransomware sees 165 percent increase in 2015
The first quarter of this year saw a 165 percent increase in new ransomware driven largely by the new, hard-to-detect CTB-Locker ransomware family, a new ransomware family called Teslacrypt, and the emergence of new versions of CryptoWall, TorrentLocker and BandarChor.
This is the main finding of the latest McAfee Labs Threats Report released today by Intel Security. Among other highlights are a 317 percent increase in Adobe Flash malware samples and the emergence of new efforts to exploit hard drive and SSD firmware.
Cisco announces new embedded security solutions
Networking specialist Cisco is announcing new products to provide embedded enterprise security from the data center out to endpoints, branch offices and the cloud.
The company used this week's Cisco Live conference to announce that it's adding more sensors to increase visibility; more control points to strengthen enforcement; and pervasive, advanced threat protection to reduce time-to-detection and time-to-response, limiting the impact of attacks.
Mid-sized businesses are underusing their IT management
In 89 percent of mid-sized companies IT management focuses on day-to-day tasks that are often time-consuming and manual which means that business isn't getting the most from its IT investment.
This is one of the main findings of a survey by cloud-based IT management provider Kaseya which looked at 500 mid-sized enterprises globally and compares the practices of IT departments in faster growth companies with those in slower growth companies, and the practices of more mature IT organizations with those of less mature ones.
Botnets for hire mean anyone can launch a DDoS attack
The latest DDoS Threat Landscape Report from security specialist Incapsula reveals that whilst 71 percent of network layer attacks last under three hours, 20.4 percent last for more than five days.
At an estimated cost of $40,000 per hour according to Incapsula, the total cost of these attacks can run into millions of dollars. The longest attack recorded lasted for 64 days.
IBM launches new cloud collaboration to power application development
Businesses are constantly seeking to improve the digital experience that they offer their customers, delivering something that's engaging and personalized. Add in demand for mobile access from every device, integrated social capabilities, and the need to analyze data from the internet-of-things to quickly make decisions and companies are looking for faster ways to create improved customer experiences.
Today IBM and Portico Consultancy are unveiling new cloud services to help businesses of any size quickly build, test and deploy applications to deliver on their requirements.
New isolation technology seeks to eliminate malware threats
According to Gartner, businesses spent more than $70 billion on cyber security tools in 2014, and collectively lost nearly $400 billion as a result of cyber crime. This suggests that existing security technologies are struggling to cope with the growing number of cyber threats.
Californian company Menlo Security is launching an new approach which it calls Isolation Platform, a technology that claims to eliminate the threat of malware from key attack vectors, including web and email.
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Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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