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What should you know about Windows 7? First of all, there are no radical changes. Read the full article for nine more pieces of key information about the latest Windows operating system. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: Driving Greater Equality FEATURE |  By James Maguire, December 16, 2020 AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning […]

Server virtualization now plays a critical role in many organizations’ disaster recovery efforts. Despite its obvious benefits, virtualization still presents a set of unique challenges for many businesses. This white paper provides insight into methods for backing up different virtual machines and explains why virtualization has become a key component in disaster recovery environments. RELATED […]

The security landscape has changed markedly during recent years. Organized criminal gangs realized that there was money to be made, which led to the creation of an underground economy in which criminals can buy and sell both data and the programs that are used to steal that data. Consequently, there has been an exponential increase […]

Today, important business decisions depend on having up-to-date, trustworthy information. At the same time, you need to assess the internal and external risks involved in such decisions. This is not easy, which is why organizations need to build an Information Strategy to guide them toward a coherent, integrated environment for managing and delivering information in […]

Many organizations struggle to build a convincing business case for the investments needed in information management. In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: […]

This whitepaper from Proofpoint and Osterman Research discusses the dramatic cost savings that companies can realize by adopting a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model for email security versus an on-premises approach. The SaaS delivery model can reduce the total cost of ownership for email security while providing a number of other benefits. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics […]

Do you know what your legacy servers are costing the company in terms of real dollars? In this down economy, now is the time to examine the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your proprietary server infrastructure and migrate to a more cost-effective open systems platform designed for tomorrow. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and […]

No single technology guarantees security, however application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or anti-virus utilities. This paper from Faronics focuses on how application whitelisting can be effectively used as an important layer in your security scenario. It examines other security layers as well, and demonstrates how whitelisting compliments and augments existing defenses. It […]

What are the most insidious threats faced by small and medium-sized enterprises, and what can you do about them? This paper offers suggestions for counteracting insider attacks, reckless use of hotel networks and wi-fi hotspots, loss of portable devices, and more. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: Driving Greater Equality FEATURE |  By James Maguire, December […]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia Oyj plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source told Reuters on Monday, dampening prospects of a quick makeover of the Finnish group’s struggling product line-up. But a spokesman said the world’s biggest handset maker had no plans to sell its manufacturing plants, clarifying earlier […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web. Google gave the first public look at its […]

BARCELONA (Reuters) – The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year. The smartphone market slowed drastically in the September quarter, but chip makers — whose products are sold weeks, if not months, before phones are sold to consumers — […]