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The Recipe for a Successful BYOD Policy [Infographic]
It seems BYOD isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and that’s a blessing and a curse for most businesses. While employees are happily toting their iPads to and from the office, IT administrators are working hard to support a growing bevy of devices the company no longer controls. The result has unseated years of operational tactics ...
HP Bolsters Converged Infrastructure Portfolio with New Hardware + Services
This morning Hewlett-Packard unveiled a whole line-up of converged infrastructure offerings that address several current trends in the enterprise, including cloud computing and software-defined networking. Here’s a brief rundown of what HP is announcing today: Cloud According to the company, the new HP BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure is 70 percent cheaper to operate than competing ...
Simple to Scale: Duo Security Uses Android Hardware for Its Own Hack-Resistance
Duo Security has launched a new two-factor authentication service for Android devices that ships with a hardware security module, or HSM, under the hood. The security firm says that one in two Android phones is susceptible to privilege escalation, a type of exploit that relies on unlatched vulnerabilities in the operating system to access protected system resources. ...
Can Your Business Hyperscale Like Facebook + Google? Not with AWS Alone
Hyperscale computing is slowly but surely taking over the enterprise. The Big Data explosion is forcing organizations to beef up their storage environments, but extending legacy infrastructure is not the way to successfully achieve hyperscale status. Traditional RAID architectures are simply too expensive to maintain sustainability beyond the Exabyte threshold. That is why Facebook and ...
Paging Dr. Watson! IBM Puts Its AI to Work in Healthcare
IBM’s artificial intelligence project, Watson, is really coming into his own. The initiative, several years in the making, is being put to work as part of IBM’s Big Data portfolio, a monetizable solution instead of a research-driven hobby for Big Blue. One of the most viable sectors for Watson is the healthcare industry, and that’s ...
How Big Data Can Incentivize Your Restaurant’s Waitstaff [VIDEO]
Big Data is being applied to countless businesses these days, namely healthcare and finance. But restaurants can get in on the fun, too, especially if there’s a way to leverage Big Data to incentivize employees. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante caught up with Phil Beauregard, the founder and CEO of Objective Logistics, at the Technology Underwriting Greater ...
Why You Should Take a Services-Oriented Approach to Data Backup [VIDEO]
One of the “most pressing problems that plague IT since the dawn of computing.” That’s how Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante explains backup, offering his view and solution in a featured segment this week (see full clip below). According to Vellante, the fundamental issue about backup is that it delivers no tangible business ...
Virsto Buyout, Rumors and Passwords: This Week in the Cloud
The past few days were an exciting period for both the enterprise and consumer space. VMware made a major acquisition, a password management startup existed stealth with $15 million in the bank, and Cisco announced record quarterly earnings. On Monday SiliconAngle founder and CEO John Furrier reported that VMware acquired Virsto, a California-based developer of ...
API Analytics, Funding and Outsourcing This Week in Big Data
This week in Big Data: a high-profile cloud firm announced an analytics offering; an emerging Big Data developer secured funding, and MasterCard struck a services deal that sheds new light on the challenges of data science in the enterprise. Apigee, the developer of an API management service used by major brands to optimize their web ...
BlueStacks Launch is Big News for Windows 8 Users – Breaking Analysis
BlueStacks, the startup behind the platform of the same name that lets you run Android apps on other systems, added support for Windows 8 this week. The launch of App Player for Surface Pro is big news for Windows 8 users, who can now access 750,000 plus Android applications from their PCs and mobile devices. Before ...