Intel To Partners: Let’s Drive Workplace Transformation
As businesses grapple to keep up with an increasingly mobile world, Intel and its partner base want to help transform businesses to eliminate wires, keep up with mobility trends and enable faster, more secure collaboration.
Solution providers that want to cash in on the rising tide of open source technology may want to pay attention to a new report highlighting key areas of OpenStack use and adoption.
In 2010, cloud adoption among US small medium businesses (SMBs) was just 5 percent—today, 37 percent are on the cloud, and the percentage will double by 2020, according to Forbes. In the EU, 12% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) used public cloud computing in 2014, a survey by the European Commission’s Eurostat statistics service says.
There’s often a direct and inverse correlation between the complexity of a company’s computing environment and the effectiveness of its data protection strategies. The result frequently means businesses blindly trust their current data protection solutions to recover all their data in case of disaster. Or put more plainly, they cross their fingers and hope for the best.
Two years ago, the world rushed to say the antivirus industry is dead. I disagree simply because antivirus companies do not exist anymore. I haven’t seen a security company that limits its portfolio to one, traditional security (antivirus) solution. Those who’ve tried are dead and gone, but most of them have morphed into cybersecurity companies.
Critical business processes require multiple copies of each database’s and application’s data for development, analytics, operations, and data protection. To improve organizational agility and competitiveness, more is better—more copies, more frequently, with more operational self-service across the process cycles.
Every organization has faced the dilemma of convenience over security and most have compromised on either one or the other. While the information security triad of integrity, confidentiality and availability has been regarded as the mantra of CSOs, convenience has constantly played an important role in both productivity and operations.
The fast-growing Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market continues to expand, fueled by demand for cloud-based services as organizations digitize their business workflows around voice, video and conferencing solutions.
Security used to be a conversation that businesses had only after a breach. However, that spending pattern is starting to shift, Carbon Black CEO Patrick Morley says.
"Today, you see organizations being much more proactive," Morley said in a recent interview at company headquarters in Waltham, Mass. "Everyone has CISOs and boards who are very aware and don't want to (have) breaches. The mandate now is to improve the security posture."
The amount of news spewing out around the Internet of Things this year has been unprecedented. With all the new technology, partnerships and mergers and acquisitions around the technology, it seems the market is moving at a breakneck pace.