One of the few industries in the world that will never see budget cuts is security. As the world grows ever more complex and connected, our valuable information is increasingly exposed to malicious actors around the world
Handwriting is in decline as students increasingly use digital forms of writing throughout their lives – from their personal communications through to their essays.
With aging populations, advances in medical technology and the growing importance of ‘e-health’, software vendors are focusing more attention than ever on the health market.
Uncertain times call for wise planning in IT. Global political uncertainty and flat company revenues mean budgets will be stalled for the near future, affecting investment in not just products but people.
It used to be we worried that we might not be able to prepare our children to do jobs that hadn’t yet been invented. Now that seems like a nice problem to have compared to the alternatives: no jobs for our children to do because the robots will be taking over.
“Beacon of education” might be a bit of a cliché, but beacons in education are definitely hot right now. Installing beacons around a campus enables pupils to download learning resources and exercises related to their lessons through an application on their phones or tablets.
For small and midsize businesses adopting a cloud-based approach to manage their data and applications, security is a top concern. Evolving threats to security and compliance may cause a business to shy away from transitioning some assets to the cloud, but hybrid IT solutions could be the answer.
As we approach year end, it's as good a time as any to reflect on your current network operations and put together a network upgrade project plan to keep things running smoothly into 2017 and beyond.
When you're going to put a mobile computer on the shop floor, you want to make sure it will last. You'd ideally like to make sure that it will stand up to whatever rigors the environment and regular use will require—but how can you be sure?
Making the right IT investments can support growth and vastly improve your business's existing operations. However, CompTIA points out that 47 percent of small and midsize businesses consider themselves moderately close or not close at all in terms of readiness to use improved technology.
When it comes to IT infrastructure, such as servers, networking, and storage, IT managers often overlook the importance of storage. Compared to other hardware, storage appliances generally work diligently and quietly in the background, requiring little in the way of maintenance or attention.
As opposed to the attention typically given to acquiring new servers and workstations, comparatively less thought is usually dedicated to a network upgrade.
When we look at network switch specifications, we tend to fixate on the numbers for the front of the box. Switches are sold on the basis of how many ports of a particular speed they make available to the network.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a broad term that tends to get wider when marketing departments use it. In general, though, it means machines talking to machines with a back-end system gathering the data from those conversations for analysis and control purposes.
After years of lectures from security experts, business IT professionals have finally begun to accept that a password alone isn't enough to secure a corporate computing account.
Look around the office. One in four of the people will take or share sensitive company information when they leave their job.
Office 365 commercial subscribers still running the original Office 2016 applications have until October to update or they risk being without support, including security patches.
When production network traffic and network management information share the same cables and logical network space, bad things can happen. On the one hand, mingling production and management traffic can make performance a problem for management functions.
In the movies, hackers only have to swivel from their pizza boxes back to their keyboards and type a couple of lines. With that, they have access to everything from the target’s credit card number to their emails and appointment books.
This year, there will be significant growth in the adoption of modern data center technologies, as suggested by Intel’s research. Survey respondents indicated that midsize companies and enterprises alike are preparing to upgrade their data centers.
The Aruba 2920 Switch Series provides security, scalability, and ease of use for enterprise edge, SMB and branch office networks.
Have you seen the latest hard disks? The terabyte count is heading up while cost is coming down, making it possible to have a single drive do the job of an entire JBOD (just a bunch of disks) appliance of days gone by.
HPE’s leading server for dense general-purpose computing, the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server delivers increased performance with the best memory and I/O expandability packed in a 1U dense rack design.
So much of workplace productivity today depends on the office network. If you’re in any doubt about that, try switching one off and see how quickly the phone starts ringing.
In a business world where IT is a competitive advantage, you should be looking at more than residual value to set hardware refresh rates, especially if your business aspires for agile methodology.
CompServ Inc.
