High-quality video streaming becomes critical for businesses
According to a new survey carried out by Wowza Media Systems almost 70 percent of people are using four or more devices a day and expect to get high-quality video streaming on all of them.
It also highlights the rise of video streaming as a business tool with more than 80 percent of respondents saying that live and on-demand video is essential within organizations.
Dell offers best practices for BYOD security
The rise in use of mobile and BYOD technology is great when it comes to giving employees anytime, anywhere access to data. But it presents new challenges for IT departments in terms of keeping data safe and secure across enterprise networks and mobile platforms.
In a recent Dell Global Security Survey BYOD was highlighted as a root cause of security breaches. Of those polled 57 percent ranked increased use of mobile devices as being a top security concern in the next five years. Part of the problem is employee resistance as people find workarounds to avoid restrictive security policies. An ever increasing choice of device types and different operating systems can also add to security risks. To help companies gain maximum benefit from mobile device usage whilst keeping data secure Dell has come up with five best practice recommendations for enterprises.
Spanning launches 100 percent restore guarantee for Google Apps
Backup specialist Spanning Cloud Apps has made two announcements to help cement its position as a trusted SaaS backup and recovery provider.
The first is an update to its backup product for Salesforce. This includes on-page Salesforce data restore which makes it easy for end users to quickly and easily compare and recover previous versions of Salesforce data objects, such as Accounts, Opportunities and Contacts. As before the backup product is delivered entirely via the Salesforce interface.
ChargeKey and ChargeCard ensure you’ll never be without a USB charger cable again
As we become more and more reliant on mobile gadgets it's inevitable that running out of battery life on your phone or tablet will become a regular occurrence.
Since we don't tend to carry chargers around with us all the time this can be a bit of a problem. If you have access to a USB port, however, your problems may be over.
Less than a third of attackers account for 80 percent of comment spam
You don't need to spend very much time on popular websites and forums to encounter the curse of comment spam, adverts or links embedded in fields intended for reader interaction.
Comment spammers are most often motivated by search engine optimization, using a busy site's comment fields and guest books to get views for advertisements and malware distribution. A new report by enterprise security specialist Imperva takes a close look at comment spam and looks at ways that companies can combat it.
Smartsheet helps bridge cloud technologies across the enterprise
Ensuring a free flow of information between systems is important to any enterprise's productivity and overall success.
But the rise in cloud usage means that information may be stored in lots of different places and that's a problem when it comes to making it easily accessible.
Free cloud-based protection against spear phishing
The biggest threat to both organizations and individuals online comes from zero-day exploits that aren't picked up by conventional antivirus protection.
In many cases an infection starts with a phishing email which can appear legitimate but contains links to malicious content.
Over half of organizations suffer critical system outages
System outages remain a major problem for businesses, with over half suffering critical problems in the last three months according to a new report.
The latest annual Service Availability Benchmark Survey conducted by risk management specialists Continuity Software is based on responses from 155 IT professionals across a range of industries and regions.
Companies need a data-centred security policy to cope with big data
Big data is all the rage at the moment but when it comes to security it shouldn't be treated in isolation from the rest of the organization.
According to a new report from research specialists Gartner, policies need to take account of all forms of data if security problems are to be avoided.
HP targets business users with new laptop/tablet hybrid
Mobile workforces demand devices that are powerful enough to perform a range of functions but still retain maximum portability.
Convertible PCs that can play the role of laptop and tablet by flipping the screen around are an obvious choice. HP's latest announcement though takes a slightly different approach with a tablet that detaches completely from the keyboard to offer added flexibility.
The irresistible rise of the Windows phone
Android may be the dominant force in the smartphone market, but according to mobile advertising specialist Vserv Windows is surging forward as a mobile OS.
As prices of smartphones continue to fall, making them more popular across global markets, this is good for the whole market and Vserv sees the adoption of the next generation of Windows-based phones as being all but guaranteed.
Rejoice! UK legalizes digital media copying
Back at the end of March we reported that ripping your CDs and DVDs for personal use was about to be made legal in the UK.
Well, today's the day. You're now free to make backup copies of your discs and digital media such as MP3s, upload them to a personal cloud service like Amazon Cloud Player, or put material onto a portable player without fear that the authorities are about to come knocking. Welcome to the twenty-first century.
Big Blue is watching you -- IBM patent aims to help stamp out fraud
Proving who you are online is usually a matter of entering passwords or other codes. Which means if your information falls into the wrong hands someone else would have no problem pretending to be you.
IBM has been working on this problem and has patented a technique that analyzes online behaviour to work out if you really are who you say you are.
New partnership brings easy-to-use encryption to Microsoft email users
The best way to keep data from emails and attachments from falling into the wrong hands is to use some form of encryption. But it needs to be easy to use if it's going to be effective.
Systems integrator and network consultancy BrightPlanIT has announced a partnership with DataMotion that will see it reselling cloud-based solutions for secure email, file transfer, customer contact and forms processing.
Ensuring mobile apps are safe for the enterprise
We reported last week on how misconfigured apps are likely to account for many security breaches. This is a particular problem for companies that allow BYOD as it may put corporate data at risk.
Cloud-based mobile security specialist Mojave Networks has a solution in the form of a new application reputation feature to provide enterprises with detailed insight into the applications that are being run on employee mobile devices.
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