Computerworld-Now that Black Friday is behind us and the holiday gift-buying season is under way,IT managers should be prepared for users doing a fair amount of that shopping at work. The widespread adoption of bring-your-own-device ...
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In its November 2012 Blue Coat Mobility Study,the company surveyed 350 respondents and found that most organizations allow employees access to company email(83 percent)and instant messaging(56 percent)on personal devices,but only a fraction ...
Tags: IT, Blue Coat Mobility Study, BYOD, mobile malware
"I don't think IT realizes how much the way we live life as individuals has completely permeated the enterprise,"says Margaret Dawson,vice president of product management at Symform."This is happening whether you want it to or not." ...
Tags: Shadow IT, Symform, survey, rogue cloud use
Security company McAfee has announced four enhancements of endpoint security as part of its Security Connected strategy at McAfee Focus 2012 in Las Vegas. While first-generation security focused on finding and fixing known threats, ...
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IDG News Service-Dell on Tuesday said its XPS 10 tablet with Windows RT will start at$499,matching the price of Microsoft's Surface tablet that became available last week. The XPS 10 has a 10-inch screen,weighs 635 grams,and provides ...
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First came the heavy adoption of Apple's mobile platform by consumers whose heavy use of the devices for business tasks forced the IT operations at their companies to support them. Android was the next mobile platform pushed onto IT and ...
Tags: Apple, mobile platform, IT operations, Android, Gartner, tech trends
IDG News Service - Almost half of IT managers in a survey last month said that they plan to standardize their company's mobile platform on devices running Microsoft operating systems, including smartphone OSes Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows ...
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VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers' mobile devices – including Apple iPhones – securely. This will help enterprises regain control of IT amid growing ...
Tags: mobile devices, Apple iPhones, securely, consumerisation
Computerworld - A new survey of 753 mobile device users and IT professionals in U.S. small businesses revealed that most are unfamiliar with mobile device management (MDM) technology, even though 79% have deployed smartphones to at least ...
Tags: Mobile, Device, Small Businesses
Research In Motion's stock price jumped more than 6%Wednesday after CEO Thorsten Heins addressed developers and said,among other things,that BlackBerry subscriptions had climbed to 80 million,up from 78 million in the second quarter. ...
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Enterprises should ask a lot of questions when a vendor touts its business intelligence(BI)products as being fully integrated with Hadoop. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to proclaim their support for big data technology ...
Goldman Sachs is launching a new datacentre strategy to achieve higher cost savings and improved IT energy efficiency.The investment bank will replace its existing real estate-based datacentre infrastructure with modular datacentre ...
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UK businesses are failing to protect themselves against the risks posed by staff using personal devices in the workplace. Two thirds of UK IT managers are concerned that the use of personally owned devices in the workplace poses a ...
Tags: personal devices, IT services, Equanet, company data
Computerworld-If the new iPhone 5 with LTE wireless sells as well as analysts predict,its impact on IT shops already wrestling with the Bring-Your-Own-Device(BYOD)trend could be dramatic. Some analysts predict higher cellular network data ...
Tags: iPhone, BYOD, impact, wireless data service
IBM's latest mainframe,the zEnterprise EC12,is big on data analytics and hybrid clouds. This system,announced Tuesday,includes a new 5.5-GHz,six-core processor,versus the 5.2-GHz,quad-core processor that shipped with the zEnterprise ...
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