The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)must focus on encouraging organisations to raise employee awareness of the need for robust data security,and not just rely on the threat of fines to do this. So argues Phil Allen,director of ...
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IDG News Service-In a bid to help large businesses create and manage snapshots of application data across sprawling enterprise environments,CommVault is releasing the snapshot component of its Simpana suite as a standalone product. The ...
Tags: IntelliSnap software, CommVault, Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager
Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, has been welcomed by a security expert, who cites a raft of tweaks and new features as beneficial for the protection of computers running the software. The most significant change, according to ...
As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use. This week, Cloudera and MapR both ...
Tags: Hadoop software, enterprise software, data processing platform
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-Salesforce said Friday that it has significantly expanded the social analytics options available to customers who use its Marketing Cloud,in its latest move in an ongoing arms race with Oracle to offer businesses the best ...
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There is a fundamental flaw in Salesforce.com's terms and conditions that puts customers at risk of losing access to services in the event of a third-party software vendor going out of business, according to voice provider Resilient ...
Tags: Salesforce, SaaS, Alzheimer, Microsoft
Dell has completed its acquisition of management software vendor Quest Software, the firm has announced. The final stage of the move comes almost three months after it was first revealed that Dell planned to acquire Quest for $2.4bn ...
Tags: Dell, Quest Software, AppAssure, Marius Haas
The U.S.Federal Trade Commission has reached proposed settlements with a software vendor and seven rent-to-own stores after the agency accused them of installing spyware on rented computers that captured screenshots of personal ...
Tags: U.S.Federal Trade Commission, DesignerWare, software vendor
IDG News Service-Salesforce.com has grown into a company much broader in scope than its name would suggest,having moved well beyond its roots in on-demand CRM(customer relationship management)software. During next week's Dreamforce ...
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IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday. IBM has agreed to pay US$46 per share for Kenexa in a cash transaction worth ...
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Dell announced that former HP Networking Division head Marius Haas has joined the firm on the same day as it released disappointing Q2 financial results. Haas will succeed Brad Anderson, who has been Dell's Enterprise Solutions chief ...
Tags: Dell, HP, Marius Haas, Quest Software
A new virus potentially from the same group that developed Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs. Called 'Gauss', the malware 'spies' on financial transactions, according to the company, ...
Tags: Kaspersky Labs, Financial, Malware
SCO, the low-end Unix software vendor that sought to claim intellectual property rights over the popular open-source operating system Linux, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the first stage in its winding up and liquidation. Further ...
Tags: SCO, Unix software, Microsoft, Linux Sun
Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
Tags: X-IO hybrid SSD arrays, remote applications, telecoms provider